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Does Diversity Do Damage?
Published on 11 Oct 2006 at 1:01 pm.
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Filed under racism, academia, mainstream culture.
A recently-released study by renowned Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam is causing somewhat of a stir on account of its suggestion that diversity may not be the unvarnished social blessing we sometimes make it out to be. Putnam looked specifically at ethnic diversity in a number of contexts and concluded that the more integrated the […]
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Stop Freaking Out About Hate Speech
Published on 9 Oct 2006 at 2:07 pm.
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Filed under racism, academia.
The story’s nearly identical on every campus: a few knuckle-draggers break into a building, hack an email account, or just find some public space to deface under cover of night, all for the spectacularly cowardly purpose of anonymously expressing their stern disapproval of the Blacks or the Gays or the Jews or the Foreigners. Seattle, […]
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The Roundtable
Published on 7 Oct 2006 at 6:11 pm.
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Filed under positivity, academia, black culture, inter-minority relations.
Every month, my roomate Sundiata and I host an event at our home called The Roundtable. The Roundtable is like Blackademics with home-cooked food. It’s a pot-luck, a house party, a place to network, get to know your community, engage in a dialogue and break bread-kind of like an extended family reunion. We started this […]
How Much Is Your Name Worth?
Published on 26 Sep 2006 at 1:28 pm.
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This’ll be a repeat for those of you who’ve read Levitt and Dubner’s brilliant pop-economics bestseller Freakonomics, but since a relevant line of research contained therein was recently featured on ABC’s 20/20 I figured I’d post about it anyway. The book relates the scholarly work of Harvard econ professor Roland Fryer, Jr. on the commonality […]
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Ignorance in the Academy pt. 2: equal playing fields
Published on 13 Sep 2006 at 10:04 pm.
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The recent post, Ignorance in the Academy brought up some very interesting questions about education and equality in the 21st Century. Here are some quotes to give you an idea of the varying perspectives,
“History hasn’t determined our current conditions in our (Black) communities- our choices have”
This is a very popular notion, backed by such Black […]
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Ignorance in the academy
Published on 12 Sep 2006 at 1:39 pm.
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As a graduate student in Pan-African Studies with an African and African American Studies undergraduate background, I’m sure you can imagine I’ve had my share of encounters with ignorance in the academy. We’ve all had experiences in the classroom where you think to yourself, “oh my God, did that just come out of his or her mouth.” […]
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Did this white boy just say what i think he said?
Published on 6 Sep 2006 at 11:01 am.
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Filed under racism, ridiculousness, academia.
Today, students enjoy Frisbee, football and cricket on the Quad. Back in 1870, fun on the Quad was all about lynching people. Doesn’t get much more fun than that, folks!
This is a quote from Over the Hill a program on Syracuse University’s student run television station, HillTV. Reporter Christopher Whalen was reflecting on the differences […]
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HBCUs Recruiting More Latinos
Published on 14 Aug 2006 at 3:46 pm.
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Filed under academia, inter-minority relations.
The headline summarizes the phenomenon fairly well—many traditional bastions of higher education for blacks, including Howard and Morehouse, are reaching out to Latinos in part to keep from shrinking involuntarily. Right now, Hispanic* representation at those particular two schools stand at 1% and 0.5% respectively, so we’re not exactly talking about a takeover here, but […]
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Black students.. get on this ASAP
Published on 29 Jul 2006 at 3:21 pm.
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I just stumbled across a gem. The following companies/institutions are looking for black grad and undergrad students for internships: Adobe, US India Political Action Committee, Womens Sports Foundation, ABC News Broadcast Journalism, Amazon.com Software Development Engineer, Foundation for Contemporary Art Event Organizer in Ghana… and that’s only the TIP of the iceberg!
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