Archive for January 17th, 2009

Professional Culture: Tim Arel »

In multicultural writing, we often get hung up on skin color, race, sexual orientation and religion. Inherent and physical characteristics are not the only elements of multicultural writing. I’ve briefly discussed gender in a cultural context and plan to address it again, but multiculturalism also includes the cultural groups formed within the work place. Because [...]

Bringing Character into View: Amos Tamam »

There is no one way to incorporate multicultural characters into your stories. Writers can introduce multicultural characters where they live whether that is in America or their ethnic place of origin.  Some of the most interesting multicultural stories focus on immigrants and their journey to a new land. For example, in the blog post Details [...]

Creating Real Culture: Joseph Odindo »

Creating believable multicultural characters involves more than just making appropriate appearance changes to the character in the story to mimic society’s view of a given race or ethnic origin of people. To create a balanced and authentic character, writers should incorporate the richness of the chosen ethnic background. In the post Multicultural Identities II, I [...]

The College Expo – Oakland »

Title: The College Expo Location: Oakland, California Description: Also known as the Black College Expo, participate in the vehicle that connects students to college, careers and their future. For more information check out http://www.thecollegeexpo.org. Groups welcome. For tickets or information about exhibiting and sponsoring call 877-427-4100. Date: 2009-01-17

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