November 2011
November 7th, 2011
Written by Stan A. Kaplowi... in Latest News, National Collegiate Dialogue with 9 Comments
Much data shows that black Americans are both economically less well off than whites and have higher rates of some deviant behaviors. Social scientists often quote these statistics and typically see them as very important in our understanding of racial inequality. Kaplowitz, Fisher, and Broman (2003) have shown that much of the general public has a crude sense of what these data show. On the one...
November 7th, 2011
Written by Abby L. Ferber in Latest News, National Collegiate Dialogue with 69 Comments
In her classic article, “White Privilege and Male Privilege,” Peggy McIntosh (1988) offers a long list of examples of white privilege she experiences. She notes that white privilege includes being able to assume that most of the people you or your children study in school will be of the same race; being able to go shopping without being followed; never being called a credit to one’s race, or...
November 7th, 2011
Written by Laura Monroe in Feature Stories, Latest News with 1 Comment
When the Spanish first arrived in Venezuela in the late fifteenth century, indigenous people belonging to three main ethnolinguistic groups inhabited the region: the Cariban, Arawak, and Chibcha. Today, Venezuela is composed primarily of mestizos (mixed races), with a very small pure Indian population, a notable populace of Caucasians (mostly from Europe), as well as Africans. Through 1990, the...
November 5th, 2011
Written by Janice S. Ellis... in Latest News, Setting It Straight with 1 Comment
Irrespective of what you think of Herman Cain, the current Republican Party with its Tea Pot tempest (the Tea Party), President Obama, and the Democratic Party, each election represents an educational opportunity that can assist in closing the great divide between the “haves” and “have-nots.” There are many lessons for us to learn and many opportunities to make our government work more...
November 4th, 2011
Written by Janice S. Ellis... in Cause and Civility with 1 Comment
Cycles and defining events — whether in the life of a person, an institution, city, or country — are often compared with the seasons of nature. We describe the mature stage of life as our summer, the aging as our winter. The awakening of citizens across the Arab world, demanding a better and more democratic life earlier this year, was dubbed the “Arab Spring.” Nuclear winter is used to describe...