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