TY - BOOK AU - Kazz,Judy TI - Open Your Eyes: Multicultural Poems to Wake You Up and Make You Think SN - 0968273467 (pbk) PY - 2001/// CY - Ottawa PB - Pan-African Publications KW - Race discrimination KW - Poetry N1 - "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 ER -