Tag: Racism
DeSantis’ ‘war on woke’ looks a lot like attempts by other...
Rochelle Anne Davis, Georgetown University and Eileen Kane, Connecticut College
A Florida law that took effect on July 1,...
How new state laws and book ban movements have made the...
Jamaal Abdul-Alim, The Conversation and Jusneel Mahal, The Conversation
Of all the subjects taught in America’s public schools, few...
Support for legacy admissions is rooted in racial hierarchy
Angelica S. Gutierrez, Loyola Marymount University
Not long after the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 2023 decision to ban the...
Affirmative action lasted over 50 years: 3 essential reads explaining how...
Howard Manly, The Conversation
Ever since U.S. President Lyndon Johnson enacted affirmative action in 1965, white conservatives have challenged...
US music education has a history of anti-Blackness that is finally...
Philip Ewell, Hunter College
When it comes to achieving racial diversity, music education at the university level in the...
How white privilege plays into the first lady’s idea to invite...
Joseph N. Cooper, UMass Boston
After Louisiana State University beat the University of Iowa for the women’s college basketball...
This course uses science fiction to understand politics
Nicole Pankiewicz, College of Coastal Georgia
Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation...
The cautionary tale of ‘Dilbert’
Chris Lamb, Indiana University
Dilbert, the put-upon chronicler of office life, has been given the pink slip.
EXPLORING NATURE
Children can be systematic problem-solvers at younger ages than psychologists had...
Celeste Kidd, University of California, Berkeley
I’m in a coffee shop when a young child dumps out his mother’s...
