Tag: Race
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...
At the beauty salon, Dominican-American women conflicted over quest for straight...
Melissa Godin, New York University
When Chabelly Pacheco – a Dominican-American who moved to Long Island when she was five years old – walks into...
George Romero’s zombies will make Americans reflect on racial violence long...
Erin C. Cassese, West Virginia University
“What’s your zombie apocalypse survival plan?”
The question invites the liveliest discussions of the semester. I teach a course...
Race, cyberbullying and intimate partner violence
Roderick S. Graham, Old Dominion University
Over the past two decades, cyberbullying has become a major focus for parents, educators and researchers. Stopbullying.gov lists several...
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
