Kazz, Judy, 1940-
Open Your Eyes : Multicultural Poems to Wake You Up and Make You Think / Judy Kazz. - Ottawa : Pan-African Publications, 2001. - x, 101 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
"Judy Kazz was born in Trinidad, West Indies. She immigrated to Canada where she received her B.A. and M.A. degrees in English Literature and her Teaching Certificate. She has been an educator for 31 years teaching secondary and elementary school, developing and delivering workshops for teacher education programs in Ottawa, Grenada and Thailand. She has been committed to anti-racist education for the past 25 years and has been an International Language School administrator for several years. She has been presented workshops on anti-racist education in Quebec, Nova Scotia and across Ontario. She has also done a lecture tour on Multicultural Education in South Africa. Having travelled extensively, she has become a keen observer of race relations practices in many countries. She uses verse to open people's minds to the experiences of others and to raise their awareness of their own attitudes and practices. Judy is a retired elementary school principal and is presently living in Ottawa." (Book Cover) TABLE OF CONTENTS : To The Reading
Why Should I Care?
The Unleveled Playing Field
Hate Is A Cancer
Racism
Say No To Racism
Speak the Truth
"Historians" Much More Than My Skin
Holes in the Ozone
Racism Is Not Natural
The Person That Racism Built
Together We Are Better
Skin Deep
Our Planet
Last Laugh
To My Teacher
The Positive Classroom
Born A Suspect
The Racist Media
We Are All Immigrants
As A Human Being
Imagine A World
I Am I And You Are You
Slavery: What Was It Like?
To White Freedom Fighters
School As I Remember It What Can I Do?
Prominent Blacks
Racism Is Different
To Aboriginals
A Mother's Advice
To The Fence Sitters
Nurture, Not Nature
Vertiligo
To Albinos
The Holocaust
Christopher Columbus
Racists' Declaration
The Dying Tree
Hate Crimes
To Racists Everywhere
Apartheid
Hate Has No Rights
All I Need To Know About
Life I Learned From Immigrants
The Slaves of Racism
To "Third World" Countries
"Vote With Your Throat"
Bias Of The Media
For "Whites" Only
Anti-Racist Education
The Healthy Tree
0968273467 (pbk)
20019010575
Race discrimination--Poetry.
Open Your Eyes : Multicultural Poems to Wake You Up and Make You Think / Judy Kazz. - Ottawa : Pan-African Publications, 2001. - x, 101 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
"Judy Kazz was born in Trinidad, West Indies. She immigrated to Canada where she received her B.A. and M.A. degrees in English Literature and her Teaching Certificate. She has been an educator for 31 years teaching secondary and elementary school, developing and delivering workshops for teacher education programs in Ottawa, Grenada and Thailand. She has been committed to anti-racist education for the past 25 years and has been an International Language School administrator for several years. She has been presented workshops on anti-racist education in Quebec, Nova Scotia and across Ontario. She has also done a lecture tour on Multicultural Education in South Africa. Having travelled extensively, she has become a keen observer of race relations practices in many countries. She uses verse to open people's minds to the experiences of others and to raise their awareness of their own attitudes and practices. Judy is a retired elementary school principal and is presently living in Ottawa." (Book Cover) TABLE OF CONTENTS : To The Reading
Why Should I Care?
The Unleveled Playing Field
Hate Is A Cancer
Racism
Say No To Racism
Speak the Truth
"Historians" Much More Than My Skin
Holes in the Ozone
Racism Is Not Natural
The Person That Racism Built
Together We Are Better
Skin Deep
Our Planet
Last Laugh
To My Teacher
The Positive Classroom
Born A Suspect
The Racist Media
We Are All Immigrants
As A Human Being
Imagine A World
I Am I And You Are You
Slavery: What Was It Like?
To White Freedom Fighters
School As I Remember It What Can I Do?
Prominent Blacks
Racism Is Different
To Aboriginals
A Mother's Advice
To The Fence Sitters
Nurture, Not Nature
Vertiligo
To Albinos
The Holocaust
Christopher Columbus
Racists' Declaration
The Dying Tree
Hate Crimes
To Racists Everywhere
Apartheid
Hate Has No Rights
All I Need To Know About
Life I Learned From Immigrants
The Slaves of Racism
To "Third World" Countries
"Vote With Your Throat"
Bias Of The Media
For "Whites" Only
Anti-Racist Education
The Healthy Tree
0968273467 (pbk)
20019010575
Race discrimination--Poetry.