by Steve Chisnell | 28 March 2020 | ChizBlog, Culture Criticism, Global Issues, Politics and Ethics
It began very soon after Mama Ka’Kaw was “discovered” by the Europeans when they first “explored” the “New World.” Chocolate, once an indulgence of the elite who could pay for it, fast became accessible and commonplace to everyone once slavery dropped the price.
by Steve Chisnell | 22 August 2017 | ChizBlog, Education, Global Issues
This summer has been filled with stories of Turkey removing Darwin from school curricula. But this is a small issue in balance: Erdogan and Turkey’s ruling AKP understand well that control of education and history means control of national identity. And the end of freedom.
by Steve Chisnell | 19 January 2016 | ChizBlog, Culture Criticism, Global Issues, Travel
Hours after arriving in the United States and I am wrestling with questions that have dominated my weekend and been drawn more acute by it. They are questions about not merely the gulfs of politics and ideology, but those of language. And not just about differing... 
by Steve Chisnell | 15 January 2016 | Culture Criticism, Global Issues, Travel
It’s been some years since I took a “Reality Tour” to Cuba. And while I have many memories of that trip, there are some parts of Cuba I worried about then, cracks in the communist walls against capitalist media and marketing that I feared might undermine some of the... 
by Steve Chisnell | 11 July 2011 | ChizBlog, Global Issues, Politics and Ethics, Travel
This, then, is the great humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves and their oppressors as well. . . . In order for this struggle to have meaning, the oppressed must not, in seeking to regain their humanity (which is a way to create it),... 
Steve Chisnell (um, on the right) is a teacher at Royal Oak (MI) High School. 
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