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Educational and entertaining media that breaks down barriers, reduces bigotry and ignorance, lifts our hearts and make us think.
Crossing The Line: Multiracial Comedians - PBS
Crossing The Line: Multiracial Comedians investigates the power of language and its affect on American identity. It is produced by Emmy-Award and Telly Award winner, producer and multiracial comedian, Teja Arboleda, M.Ed. & Dr. Darby Li Po Price.
This Telly Award winning PBS documentary looks at how comedians transcend race through humor. Book-ended by performers such as Michael Richards, Rosie O'Donnell, Don Imus, and the NAACP-Detroit N-Word burial march, the story dives deep into the pool of mixed-blood humorists to test the limits 
of the freedom of speech - who gets to say what, and where the line is. It features prominent figures such as Rain Pryor (daughter of Richard Pryor), Harvard Law Professor Randall Kennedy, and experts on race and culture, and many prominent mixed race comedians.
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This documentary let me cry until I laughed. The insidious effects of racism are hard to identify, examine and heal. But through humor, we can creep closer to the core of understanding. Thanks for this documentary.
- Desiree Cooper, Pulitzer Prize Nominee & Co-Host, Weekend America - NPR / American Public MediaArboleda's point of view, and it comes through strongly in the movie, is that, "It's not necessary to denigrate other people to get a laugh".
- Leslie Brokaw, Boston Globe
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Diversity Elementary©™ - Discovery Education 
The wacky teacher and his diverse 
group of students (puppets) explore different concepts of multicultural issues. Endorsed by the American Library Association and the School Library Journal, this six part educational video series engages kids in actively learning about race, culture, class, religion, family and abilities through humor, animation, storytelling, field trips and more. A teacher's guide is available for each unit.
This exciting series first aired on PBS, and is now actively used by schools around the US and abroad, from Peru to Canada, and is distributed by Discovery Education®, as streaming media.
For full screen DVD versions, please purchase from our site - available in May, 2012
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Ethnic Man!®
Classroom Video - Grades 5-12
After hundreds of live performances nationwide, Teja Arboleda's critically acclaimed 
Ethnic Man!® comes to video. Using Arboleda's powerful autobiography as a catalyst, Ethnic Man! helps educators move their students beyond restrictive notions of multiculturalism into a greater understanding of people and their backgrounds. A fresh approach to teaching and learning, this program expresses the difficulty of coping with entrenched stereotypes, while affirming the joys of human experience.
"Tackling stereotypes and the notion of race head-on in a lively and utterly
delightful format, Arboleda makes gigantic strides in multicultural education."
- Teaching Tolerance
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RaceOff©™
RaceOff™ is the original race-themed morphing video - a powerful classroom 
tool that helps unlearn the assumptions we all have about people based on how they look. This video has been used in schools, hospitals, and corporations around the country for more than ten years, and has been seen by millions of people all over the United States.
Buy it for workshops and social studies classes!
RaceOff was chosen as a permanent featured installation in the famous national touring exhibit Race: Are We So Different.
RaceOff would make a good addition to sociology and social studies classes.
The points are well-taken and the approach makes the audience active participants rather than passive viewer.
- School Library Journal
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Model Minority: Do The Math
By co-producers, Teja Arboleda and Darby Li Po Price. Model Minority: Do the Math reveals the impact of the model minority myth on the experiences and 
perspectives of Asian American (AA) college students. The myth is a complex and contradictory stereotype of AAs as academic over-achievers. While many believe the stereotype is positive, it causes many problems. Asian Americans are overlooked for affirmative action and academic assistance. Tracked by parents, counselors, and social expectations to excel in math-intensive fields, despite their preferences, they struggle to balance personal goals and mental health.
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In the Shadow of Race: Growing up As a Multiethnic, Multicultural, and 'Multiracial' American
For once it's not just black and white. In this compelling chronicle of his journey through life as a multicultural and 
multiethnic American, Teja Arboleda uniquely and personally challenges institutionalized notions of race, culture, ethnicity, and class. Arboleda fleshes out the depth of his experience as a culturally and racially mixed American, illustrating throughout the enigma of cultural and racial identity and the American identity crisis.
This book is utilized in hundreds of colleges and schools around the nation, and incorporated into many courses and curricula covering: sociology, race and culture, diversity, multiculturalism and ethnic studies.
To facilitate its use as a course text, In the Shadow of Race is offered with a Teacher's Guide written by Christine Clark, Ph.D.
REVIEWS:
For the past many years, Arboleda has performed a highly successful one-man show, 'Ethnic Man,' throughout the U.S. This volume is his attempt to turn this largely autobiographical show into a book. Engagingly written and highly accessible, In the Shadow of Race contains many keen insights and useful observations...
- CHOICE MagazineAn engaging odyssey of an individual coming to terms with personal, family, and social identity. This is more than one person's experience, however, because Teja's story is the quintessential American dilemma, perhaps with more wrinkles than most. It is a story of the heartbreak and promise of the American dream.
- Sonia Nieto, Ph.D., University of MassachusettsMr. Arboleda's personal odyssey is quite powerful!....with implications for how we view other human beings, for understanding how cultural traditions exist concurrently, and how they might evolve into 'new' traditions....This book could take our thinking to the next level when we talk about race relations.
Thomassine Sellers, San Francisco State UniversityFinding the answers to the question 'Who am I?' and 'Where do I belong' is a developmental process of finding one's identity....This does not happen automatically....It is a transformation. This transformation process of ethnic identity development is very charismatically told by Teja Arboleda....The story is not just about race and skin color or ethnicity, it is more importantly about how culture defines an individual's style and perspective....The importance of this book is that is demonstrates from a very personal perspective the search of self-identity that most people of color, immigrants, and interracial children are going through.
- Barbara J. Shade, University of Wisconsin-Parkside
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc. (Originally, Lawrence Earlbaum Associates, Inc.)
Pub. Date: May 1998. ISBN-13: 9780805825749. 280pp
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