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Promoting Racial and Cultural Awareness in the Classroom: Creating a Plan for Evaluation

by Dr. Pamela Felder, September 15, 2010

“The specter of color is apparent even when it goes unmentioned, and it is all too often the unseen force that influences public policy as well as private relationships. There is nothing more remarkable than the ingenuity that the various demarcations of the color line reflect. If only the same

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Act Da Fool: Strange Fruit Meet High Fashion

by Dr. Pamela D. Reed, September 15, 2010

I have just finished watching, for the umpteenth time, the short film Act Da Fool, by critically acclaimed independent filmmaker Harmony Korine. With each viewing, I am more flabbergasted.   Set in a Nashville housing project, as well as a school for the blind—and “a school for kleptomaniacs”—the film is apparently the

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The Season of Racial Discontent

by Dr. Elwood Watson, September 10, 2010

For anyone who thought the election of Barack Obama ushered in an era of post-racial harmony, several events that have transpired over the past few months should assuage any doubts of such a notion. Here are a few of the incidents: Shirley Sherrod, a 62-year-old Black woman with a long history

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Dangerous Liaisons: Christie, Colored Friend of Tiffany

by Dr. Robin Lee Hughes, September 7, 2010

The 2003 International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education article, Tiffany, Friend of People of Color: White Investments in Antiracism, by Dr. Audrey Thompson is a powerful scholarly article on whiteness and the problematic nature of keeping Whiteness at the center of antiracism. It is

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STEM Diversity Without Borders

by Dr. Lorelle L. Espinosa, August 20, 2010

In terms of postsecondary degree completion, the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) landscape largely resembles American higher education on the whole. Despite more low-income students and underrepresented minorities seeking and completing STEM degrees, there remains great inequity between these groups and the country’s majority middle- and upper-income populations. In addition

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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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