Winning for Native America: “Kuynákmahich”

Posted on August 10, 2011 by chiarasottile

It’s hard to believe that a year ago this month I was making my way to The Journalism School at Columbia. And now that the next class is already starting their journey, some of my journalism work is also coming full circle. I have just found out that “Winning for Native America” is going to be featured on Indian Country Today’s website. I’m excited and grateful for this opportunity; I hope that it will allow more people to check out the story, and hopefully be inspired by it.

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I’m basically a tomato plant.

Posted on May 31, 2010 by chiarasottile

In these eight months of being reacquainted with the natural splendor of my hometown, I have savored the opportunity to obsess over organic beauty (tulips included). My next destination (departure scheduled for early August) will be New York City–my previous hubs were the concrete jungle of Los Angeles and palimpsest of Rome. So as the [...]

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Talking about racism: picking scabs or reviving the American dream?

Posted on January 16, 2010 by chiarasottile

Jacoby calls talking about race picking scabs. What he wants is to accept a band-aid on racism without healing the wound. Anti-racism work does mean exposing wounds, removing the band-aids and finding methods of better medicine. Only with this exposure can progress be made, if left ignored, the wound will only leave a deeper scar.

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My new gig and an office with a view

Posted on December 18, 2009 by chiarasottile

People do their best work when what they do is a part of who they are.

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Naked truth: Racism is a boomerang

Posted on July 19, 2009 by chiarasottile

Italian politicians Anna Paola Concia and Jean Leonard Touadì show some skin to battle xenophobia in Italy.

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My new friends at the Esquiline Market

Posted on July 15, 2009 by chiarasottile

Visitors to Italy, and avid travelers everywhere, often speak of a desire to find “authenticity:” to discover and experience their destination as a local would. As culinary authenticity goes, the only way to truly accomplish this task is to purchase one’s food at an open air market.

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Relics of Racism in the Ancient City

Posted on July 6, 2009 by chiarasottile

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi would hate my new Roman neighborhood. It symbolizes the kind of multicultural Italy that Berlusconi abhors. On May 10th, the Prime Minister said at a Press Conference, “the idea of the left is to make a multiethnic Italy. This [idea] is not ours. Ours is to welcome only people of color [...]

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Gitmo Goes Virtual Reality

Posted on June 1, 2009 by chiarasottile

“Rendition: Guantanamo” could be an experiment in new media providing transparency of human rights policy, or an inappropriate display of a most painful and unjust prison that has come to symbolize America’s contradictory stance towards rights of the accused.

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Sotomayor’s Judges Need Racism 101

Posted on May 31, 2009 by chiarasottile

Is it the fact that Judge Sotomayor acknowledged her background and life experiences as aspects that define her and her decisions, or is it what that background reveals—culturally, racially, and in terms of gender—that is the true target of these attacks?

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When the vox populi twitters and texts…

Posted on May 18, 2009 by chiarasottile

New mobile media’s knack to distract may have greater consequences now that it is not just students and young people who rely on their mobile devices when in need of entertainment or distraction. These consequences might be truly deleterious given that the people in control of our country do it, too.

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