Tag: Racism
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.
Republicans are trying to build a multiracial right – will it work?
Joseph Lowndes, University of Oregon and Daniel Martinez HoSang, Yale Divinity School
Former Republican South Carolina Governor and United...
Why do some brands change racist names and logos, but others...
Ela Veresiu, York University, Canada
In 2020, against the backdrop of global demonstrations against police brutality and systemic racism,...