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Faculty & Staff
Plotting the assassination of little red Sambo: psychologists join war against racist campus mascots – Native American mascots
Psychologists Join War Against Racist Campus Mascots
Faculty & Staff
Blues for blacks at Bluefield State: African Americans awkwardly strive to regain a presence at the nation’s whitest HBCU – historically black colleges and universities
More than one hundred years after the founding of Bluefield State College, the main campus remains poised high upon a hill above railroad tracks and overlooking the town’s business district. For generations, the children of Black families living largely in southern West Virginia earned college degrees from this small teacher’s college.
Students
Minority enrollment creeps upward at Texas universities: new recruitment strategies and the 10 percent law credited with upturn
AUSTIN, Texas Black and Latino enrollments are beginning to edge upward again at public universities in Texas after the severe drop caused by the 1996 Hopwood decision, which dismantled affirmative action at Texas’s public universities.
African-American
Bostonians squabble over headline – Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr
Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., is all over the place. He was a consultant to the movie Amistad and is a writer for New Yorker magazine, the featured guest in a BBC series on Africa, a book author, a department chairperson, and a professor. Described by many as an “intellectual superstar,” the million-dollar earner has put Harvard University’s Afro-American studies department on the map by attracting a “Dream Team” of mostly male scholars.
Leadership & Policy
Scholars say basta to Chicano/Latino president shortage – enough
Efforts are underway to create a new pipeline to reverse shrinking representation
Faculty & Staff
Professors want affirmative action back – University of California at Berkeley faculty
Berkeley, Calif. A group of University of California-Berkeley faculty members — alarmed about plunging admissions of African Americans, Native Americans, and Latinos in the aftermath of California’s Proposition 209 — are the latest group to urge passage of a new, student-authored measure called the Equal Educational Opportunity Initiative (EEOI).
Latinx
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo under new scrutiny
As people in Mexico and the United States commemorate the 150th anniversary of the end of the Mexican American War, the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo has come under new scrutiny from scholars in both countries. They have been examining the implications of the treaty which ended the war, and its political relevance and meaning to modern Mexico-U.S. relations.
African-American
Waiting for a Miracle: Why School Can’t Solve Our Problems and How We Can. – book reviews
James Corner, M.D., adds his name to the dozens of recent books written about the effectiveness of American schools and matters of race, culture; and intelligence. Waiting for a Miracle: Why School Can’t Solve Our Problems and How We Can is a treatise on the interconnectedness between sound child development and effective schooling, family, and community and societal networks. It also examines the historical impact of economic and social policies on the development of groups in America.
African-American
The public responsibility of Pan-African Studies
As a discipline, Pan-African studies has developed a body of expertise that should, in the future, help focus public policy regarding Africa and the African diaspora, according to scholars who participated in the Pan-African Studies Conference earlier this month.
African-American
Lift Every Voice: African American Oratory, 1787-1900. – book reviews
How is a culture — or a nation, for that matter — created? It is called into being at the aboriginal level. Sound and sign, and song, and word are deployed. And the African American experience — as Black cultural construction in the United States is now called — like all other cultures, has an oral tradition at its center.
Sports
Coaches cornered: the 1997 racial report card; the future of African American football coaches may fall victim to the assault on affirmative action
The future of African American football coaches may fall victim to the assault on affirmative action
Sports
Black scholars on sports: controversial book brings Black intellectuals together to discuss whether African Americans are preoccupied with sports – John Hoberman, ‘Darwin’s Athletes: How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race’
Controversial book brings Black intellectuals together to discuss whether African Americans are preoccupied with sports
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