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The Politics of Fear

by Dr. Marybeth Gasman, May 17, 2010

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer just signed a law making it illegal for the state’s public schools to teach ethnic studies classes. Tom Horne, the state superintendent for public instruction who supported the legislation, said, “Traditionally, the American public school system has brought together students from different backgrounds and taught them

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William & Mary: Larger Financial Steps Needed to Atone for Slavery

by Dr. Ibram Rogers, April 5, 2010

The College of William & Mary recently announced the formation of a panel to study how the college’s history is tangled with African-American history. This announcement follows a resolution the college adopted last spring, acknowledging it owned slaves and exploited slave labor from 1693 until the Civil War and discriminated

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Like It or Not, America Has Played the Race Card Again

by Dr. Christopher Metzler, January 12, 2010

Why do I allege that America has played the race card? Because Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's private musings about race have now come out of the closet. Reid said what many Americans think: President Barack Obama is light skinned and has no "Negro dialect" unless he wants to. Reid

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Understanding Identity Politics in a Classroom

by Dr. Murali Balaji, November 19, 2009

When I taught at Penn State and Temple universities, my classrooms were mostly White save for a handful of Black and Brown faces.The toughest thing for me to come to grips with was the fact that I was a person of color teaching students who had rarely interacted with minority

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Self-Hatred on Steroids: Sammy Sosa’s Extreme Makeover

by Dr. Pamela D. Reed, November 12, 2009

Not since Michael Jackson’s de-pigmentation have we witnessed the likes of Sammy Sosa’s shocking skin lightening.  Have you seen him?  Since the pictures surfaced last weekend, there has been much speculation about the former slugger’s strange metamorphosis.  People wondered:  Is he ill?  Has he lost his

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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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