Tag: Race
When race triggers a call to campus police
Brian N. Williams, University of Virginia; Andrea M. Headley, University of California, Berkeley, and Megan LePere-Schloop, The Ohio State University
On a beautiful spring afternoon...
Considering race in college admissions – 3 questions answered
Stella M Flores, New York University
On July 3, the Trump administration announced it will reverse several policy memos outlining how colleges and universities can...
How do Americans really feel about interracial couples?
Allison Skinner, Northwestern University
According to the most recent U.S. census, approximately 15 percent of all newlywed couples are interracial. More interracial relationships are also...
Why our brains see the world as ‘us’ versus ‘them’
Leslie Henderson, Dartmouth College
Anti-immigrant policies, race-related demonstrations, Title IX disputes, affirmative action court cases, same-sex marriage litigation.
These issues are continually in the headlines....
Making art ‘should be uncomfortable’ – a conversation with visual artist...
Christina Sharpe, Tufts University
Lorna Simpson, a pioneering visual and conceptual artist whose striking work on race, gender and identity has placed her among the...
How images change our race bias
S. Brent Rodriguez-Plate, Hamilton College
Images are not static. They grab our attention, incite desire, alter our relations to others, and tweak our beliefs, as...
Why I teach a course called ‘White Racism’
Ted Thornhill, Florida Gulf Coast University
The need for students to learn about racism in American society existed long before I began teaching a course...
How talented kids from low-income families become America’s ‘Lost Einsteins’
Alexander Bell, Harvard University; John Van Reenen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Raj Chetty, Stanford University, and Xavier Jaravel, London School of Economics and Political...
EXPLORING NATURE
Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...
Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma
