February 13th, 2012
Written by Janice S. Ellis Ph.D. in Latest News, National Collegiate Dialogue with 19 Comments
When candidates for President of the United States choose to play to racial stereotypes, it does little to educate and improve race relations among a growing ethnically diverse electorate. The travesty and tragedy of resorting to using distorted, divisive and derogatory languages and images to describe a whole group of people have untold, and unfortunately, lasting consequences.Republican...
February 13th, 2012
Written by Paul C. Gorski Assistant Professor in Latest News, National Collegiate Dialogue with 11 Comments
In my favorite photograph of my Grandma Wilma, taken during her early teens, she stands outside her Kitzmiller, Maryland, house. The house’s exterior, cracking and worn, hints at the working poor life she and her family are living in Appalachia. Evidence, too, is her attire: full-length overalls, dusty and stained, hang over a plain white t-shirt. The tips of dirty shoes peek out from the bottoms...
February 6th, 2012
Written by Douglas Parker Professor of Sociology in Latest News, National Collegiate Dialogue with 3 Comments
Abstract. This paper discusses the US history of discrimination against blacks, which should be understood by students and others who are concerned with human rights and who want to participate in some form of civic engagement for the realization of these rights. The first part of this paper examines slavery, an extreme form of racial discrimination, and its repetition as involuntary servitude in...
February 6th, 2012
Written by Aaron Castelan Cargile in Latest News, National Collegiate Dialogue with 30 Comments
Consider the poem, Habit, By Jane Hirshfield, Posted March 15, 2000www.slate.com/articles/arts/poem/2000/03/habit.html HabitThe shoes put on each timeleft first, then right.The morning potion's teaspoonof sweetness stirred alwaysfor seven circling — no fewer, no more — into the cracked blue cup.Touching the pocket for wallet, for keys,before closing the door.How did we cometo believe these...
January 30th, 2012
Written by Abby L. Ferber Ph.D. Professor of Sociology in Latest News, National Collegiate Dialogue with 2 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 segment, The European-American Collaborative Challenging Whiteness (ECCW),...
