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Gaslight: Proving Institutionalized Racism

by Dr. Robin Lee Hughes, July 25, 2010

  In a recent talk, I stated that institutional and structural racist systems of opportunity and privilege still exist in the academy. Noticing the pushback — furrowed brows looked like neon signs plastered on folks’ foreheads — I engaged them in a conversation that went something as follows:  Search committees talk about the

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Why a Focus on Minority Men Means a Focus on the Whole

by Dr. Lorelle L. Espinosa, July 23, 2010

As some may recall, an early blog post featured data and opinion on the state of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) undergraduate degree completion for women of color (including top degree-granting institutions). Although much of my work has addressed the experience of women and women of color in STEM,

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Latest Scientific Racist Theory: Africans Intellectually Inferior Due to Prevalence of Diseases

by Dr. Ibram Rogers, July 13, 2010

Since the dawn of modern science and the concomitant expansion of global inequalities among nations, genders, ethnicities and races, scientists have sought to explain these inequalities, dancing around their true foundations —poverty, power and perspective. In the last 40 years, historically silenced groups of intellectuals have pushed poverty, power and perspective

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Tennis Anyone? Race and Class Still Matter in Sports

by Dr. Robin Lee Hughes, July 12, 2010

Here we go again. Yet another basketball player had the nerve to play a sport, receive a large check in lieu of the Horatio Alger meta-narrative that one can easily pull oneself up by their bootstraps and make it by hard work and determination in a fair and democratic society.

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Exposing the Myth: HBCUs and the Real World

by Dr. Ibram Rogers, June 28, 2010

Thousands of students are preparing to attend historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in August. But some of those students are on the receiving end of blows of ire from friends and family for choosing an HBCU. The loudest critique — HBCUs are not representative of the

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Diverse Sponsors ‘Mentoring’ Panel Discussion

Diverse Sponsors ‘Mentoring’ Panel Discussion

Journalist Janet Roach reports on the Diverse-sponsored panel discussion, “The Critical Role of Mentoring in Increasing Graduates and Faculty of Color”. The panel discussion was held in Washington, D.C. during the 98th annual conference of the Association of American Colleges and Universities.


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