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Innovations in Oral Health: A Toolkit for Interprofessional Education
Journal of Interprofessional Care. 2017 Jan 31:1-4. doi: 10.1080/13561820.2016.1258394
The integration of oral health competencies into non-dental health professions curricula can serve as an effective driver for interprofessional education (IPE). The purpose of this report is to describe a replicable oral-health-driven IPE model and corresponding online toolkit…
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Not so Fast Dick and Jane: Reimagining Childhood and Nation in The Bluest Eye
MELUS 30.4 (2005)
In The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison challenges America’s complacent belief in its benevolent self-image through representations of children who experience race, class, and gender oppressions. She is not the first African American author to use images of childhood to underestimate cherished conceptions of national identity. In his 1845 slave narrative, Frederick Douglass condemns…
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Legacies of the ‘Innocent’ Frontier: Failed Memory and the Infantilized Filipina Expatriate in Jessica Hagedorn’s Dogeaters
Journal of Asian American Studies 7.1 (2004) 27-50.
This article focuses on the ways that Jessica Hagedorn uses the trope of childhood innocence to appropriate President William McKinley's infantilizing rhetoric of colonialism. Through her expatriate narrator's nostalgia for an innocent Philippines populated by childlike characters, Hagedorn…