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December 5th, 2011
Written by Abby L. Ferber Ph.D. Professor of Sociology in Latest News, National Collegiate Dialogue with 0 Comments
Each week, the White Privilege Conference and the Matrix Center for the Advancement of Social Equity and Inclusion, housed at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS), hosts a half hour radio show called Intersections Radio that features an interview with a different author, scholar, and/or speaker.In this particular segment, Robin Parker and Pamela Smith Chambers discuss the myth...
December 5th, 2011
Written by Janice S. Ellis Ph.D. in Latest News, National Collegiate Dialogue with 20 Comments
Sunday, whether intentional or non-intentional, is arguably the most racially-segregated day of the week in America. Whether you attend worship services in a church located in the urban core, a suburban area, or in the valleys and hillsides along winding country roads, it is very likely that the parishioner beside you or across the isle is of the same race if not the same ethnic group.Many of us...
December 2nd, 2011
Written by Janice S. Ellis Ph.D. in Cause and Civility with 0 Comments
The specter of tuning in to the unfolding expose of the private life of Republican Presidential candidate Herman Cain’s alleged extra-marital escapade after escapade brings to mind the plethora of double standards that govern our lives.It is a kind of public-private schizophrenia. We are one person in private, another in public. We tolerate, and indeed, practice certain behavior in our private...
November 30th, 2011
Written by Janice S. Ellis Ph.D. in Eyes On The Enterprise, Latest News with 1 Comment
If discrimination and racism still reign when it comes to hiring in certain industries in New York City, the supposedly symbol of America’s melting pot where different races and ethnicities “rub shoulders” on an hourly basis, then is there real hope that one day inclusiveness and equality will be a way of life in this country?New York, New York, let’s spread the news…. But, what news? That as...
November 29th, 2011
Written by Janice S. Ellis Ph.D. in Focus on Health, Latest News with 2 Comments
The negative impact and consequences that systemic racism wields on the human condition can be seen in obvious ways. One only has to look around them and see the gross disparities when it comes to educational achievement, employment, quality of housing, and other living conditions among white Americans and other minorities, especially blacks.What is often less obvious are the other insidious and...
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