About those Whites-only scholarships
On Sunday afternoon, I sat down with one of my favorite race bloggers, Tami Harris (What Tami Said) to discuss the Colorlines report that “a group of white male college students in Texas have taken their antipathy to new levels by offering scholarships exclusively for white males.”According to the Colorlines story, William Lake, an MBA [...]
Well, here’s a piece I never imagined myself writing: A defense of a white man’s use of the N-word. I want to start with a little back-story: I don’t use the N-word. Not ever. But I used to, not so long ago. I used it in the context of talking about racism in my psychology [...]
Continue reading …Race, nativism, and anti-trafficking efforts: A dangerous and divisive game
October 6, 2010 1 CommentRace has always played a role in labeling some people as worthy and others as undeserving of legal protections and access to justice. This has been the case whether the person in question is an alleged perpetrator of harm or an alleged victim. Collective thinking of this kind ultimately confers or takes away rights based [...]
Continue reading …Should social media sites like collect information about users’ race and ethnicity?
September 1, 2010 No CommentSo, apparently Facebook has figured out a way to predict user race/ethnicity. Which raises the question: Is this a good or bad thing? There’s a school of thought that the best strategy for dealing with the problem of racism is to stop paying attention to race. The argument is basically that by paying attention to [...]
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Exactly one year ago, I published a book entitled, Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Clinton. My publisher, Palgrave Macmillan, has decided to re-print in paperback and they’d like me to change the title to “…from Kennedy to Obama” and add a chapter about the President. I’ve been blogging since April 2009 and haven’t [...]
Continue reading …By Monise Seward “Negroes have no control over their education and have little voice in their other affairs pertaining thereto…The education of the Negroes, then, the most important thing in the uplift, of the Negroes, is almost entirely in the hands of those who have enslaved them and now segregate them.” Carter G. Woodson, The [...]
Continue reading …By Lowell Howard In 2042 there will no longer be a white majority in the United States, leaving in the past our country’s historical identity as a heavily white protestant nation. In 2008, the racial barrier of the White House was shattered by Barack Obama. That landmark election demonstrated an incredible shift in racial attitudes, [...]
Continue reading …By Tiffany Manuel, Frameworks Institute In 1994, Harvard psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein and American Enterprise Institute political scientist Charles Murray published the best-selling and now infamous book, The Bell Curve. Among other things, the book sought to establish the notion that America’s intelligentsia (what they termed the “cognitive elite”) was becoming more segregated and separated [...]
Continue reading …Formally and informally, in ways big and small, in their professional lives, their personal lives, or both, a great many people are working to advance the cause of racial equity and social justice in the United States and around the world. What would the United States look like in a generation or two if the [...]
Continue reading …By Yayoi Lena Winfrey Soon after my Astrologers group meeting last Saturday morning, I stopped by a local market in the mood for breakfast. At the trendy and overpriced store, I grabbed a box of cereal that, among its competitors, listed the healthiest ingredients. When I flipped the box around to its front, I noticed [...]
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