Tag: Race
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...
The dangerous belief that white people are under attack
Clara Wilkins, Wesleyan University
In August, the Justice Department decided to investigate instances of bias against whites in university admissions. Since then, campuses have been...
Before Breitbart, there was the Charleston News and Courier
Sid Bedingfield, University of Minnesota
Conservatives who dislike Donald Trump like to blame the president and his Breitbart cheering section for the racial demagoguery they...
How a young Ernest Hemingway dealt with his first taste of...
Verna Kale, Pennsylvania State University
When he published “The Sun Also Rises” in 1926, Ernest Hemingway was well-known among the expatriate literati of Paris and...
Defying Trump, Alabama GOP picks Roy Moore – and embraces the...
David Hughes, Auburn University at Montgomery
The Roy Moore and Luther Strange Republican primary runoff in Alabama wasn’t quiet, staid or dignified.
Set against...
The difference between black football fans and white football fans
Tamir Sorek, University of Florida and Robert G. White, University of Florida
A significant portion of the NFL’s fan base has reacted negatively to the...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
