Hi Diane--
I work with Puerto-Rican, Mexican, Dominican, and Afro-American low income
(elementary school) kids. Pokemon is very popular among these kids.
Eugene
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Diane Hodges [mailto:dhodges@ceo.cudenver.edu]
> Sent: Sunday, December 05, 1999 12:29 PM
> To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
> Cc: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
> Subject: the whiteness of middle class play
>
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> - this pokemon thing is pretty much a white kids play, yes?
> is it as pervasive in low-income schools/families? with african-americans,
> hispanics?
>
> diane
>
> ' 'We have destroyed something by our presence,' said Bernard, 'a
> world perhaps.'
> (Virginia Woolf, "The Waves")
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> diane celia hodges
> university of british columbia, vancouver / university of colorado, denver
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> Diane_Hodges@ceo.cudenver.edu
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