March 26th, 2012
Written by Abby L. Ferber Ph.D. Professor of Sociology in Latest News, National Collegiate Dialogue with 12 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, Warren Blumenfeld, Associate Professor of Multicultural and...
March 26th, 2012
Written by Harris Chaiklin Ph.D. in Latest News, National Collegiate Dialogue with 1 Comment
“It is easy to overlook change when it happens ….” (Ifill 2009) p. 14. With this phrase, Gwen Ifill sets the theme for her analysis of what is happening with black political leadership. It is a tale of what she calls “sandpaper politics.” The phrase is meant to connote the friction which occurs in the shift of power from an older generation of black political leaders to an emerging one and the...
March 19th, 2012
Written by Tanya Golash-Boza Assistant Professor of Sociology in Latest News, National Collegiate Dialogue with 3 Comments
Current global policies and immigration regulations of the United States result in violations of the human rights of migrants. These policies and regulations are designed to maximize profits for corporations and minimize the prices of consumer goods for customers in the Global North with little if any consideration of the human costs inside and outside US borders. Multinational corporations...
March 19th, 2012
Written by Abby L. Ferber Ph.D. Professor of Sociology in Latest News, National Collegiate Dialogue with 14 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 Charles D. Modiano, an educator, writer, and lecturer dedicated to...
March 5th, 2012
Written by Abby L. Ferber Ph.D. Professor of Sociology in Latest News, National Collegiate Dialogue with 6 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, Sherryl Weston, a faculty member at the Center for Progressive...