Archive

Blogroll

Miss America's Racial Milestones

by Dr. Elwood Watson, January 14, 2009

While I was watching television the other day, I saw a commercial promoting the Miss America pageant which is scheduled to air January 24th on the TLC Network. The advertisement took me back to the late 1990s when a colleague of mine introduced me to some research that she was compiling

Read full post

Faculty and Students of Color Face Various Dilemmas

by Dr. Elwood Watson, December 15, 2008

Recently I was interviewed by a student reporter for our campus newspaper about a racially tinged incident that took place earlier in the semester. This past October five members of a prominent fraternity on campus dressed in blackface at a Halloween party as what they saw as an effort to portray

Read full post

The myth of a "post-racial" America: a global perspective

by Dr. Christopher Metzler, December 9, 2008

The conversations about race and its significance in America are ongoing. The election of Barack Obama as President of the United States has intensified the conversation. Some claim that his election is proof that race no longer matters (although a majority of whites voted for McCain), others claim that his

Read full post

History in Their Own Words

by Dr. Emery Petchauer, November 25, 2008

On account of jury duty all last week, I was not able to be on campus at Lincoln the day after the election. I was looking forward to hearing about my students’ experiences of standing in line for hours upon hours, finally voting for the first time, celebrating wildly by

Read full post

America Is Saying 'Yes We Can' Because of President-elect Barack Obama

by Dr. James Ewers, November 7, 2008

Six years ago many of us could not really say with any authority that we had heard of Barack Obama. Our first real glimpse of him came as he delivered a keynote address at the Democratic National Convention held four years ago. After hearing him speak that evening at the

Read full post