September 2011

September 22nd, 2011
Written by Janice S. Ellis... in Cause and Civility with 3 Comments
Hardly a day goes by without some report of a racially-motivated incident. They often cut across age and socio-economic class. They are not confined to urban ghettos, but often include suburban neighborhoods, hamlets, soccer fields and country clubs.These occurrences rarely make the evening news or the front pages of newspapers. But they beg for our attention nonetheless.Just this week alone, we...
September 19th, 2011
Written by Rubén G. Rumbau... in National Collegiate Dialogue with 20 Comments
Race is a pigment of our imagination. It is a social status, not a biological one; a product of history, not of nature; a contextual variable, not a given. The concept of race is a historically contingent, relational, subjective phenomenon, yet it is typically misbegotten as a natural, fixed trait of phenotypic difference inherent in human bodies, independent of human will or intention.Racial...
September 19th, 2011
Written by Judith H. Katz ... in National Collegiate Dialogue with 68 Comments
The issue of race has plagued the United States since its beginnings. Although strides have been made, we have still failed to come to terms with it. During the Clinton administration, many hoped for a national dialogue on race, but it did not occur in any significant way. Some want to believe that a “post-racial” America came into being with the election of Barack Obama as president, and yet...
September 18th, 2011
Written by Wendy Innes in The Welcoming Table with 0 Comments
Many of the foods we love and think of as “American” really have origins in a number of other countries. Never has the melting pot of America been more evident than in the food we eat, and some of their origins just may surprise you.CoffeeHow many of us could make it through the day without our morning cup of joe? Well turns out that coffee can’t grow in the United States. Coffee is only...
September 16th, 2011
Written by Cindy Ferraino in Setting It Straight with 0 Comments
When an individual devotes his/her research efforts to uncover ways to cure a disease such as cancer, it may seem to take a long time to achieve the desired results. But when two researchers join together in the same effort, the achieved results may come a little faster.Recently, the results did prove to be fruitful for a research team at the Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology at the...

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