November 14th, 2011
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.On the September 6, 2011, the show featured the inspiring and thought-provoking, Jamie...
November 14th, 2011
Written by Janice S. Ellis Ph.D. in Latest News, National Collegiate Dialogue with 35 Comments
A recent article, “Who Gets to Vote?” appeared in The New York Times, and addresses the pervasive practice of states denying Americans with criminal records the right to vote. The article noted that during the next Presidential election in November 2012, more than 5 million Americans with past criminal convictions will not have the right to vote.The problem is that this denial remains in effect...
November 7th, 2011
Written by Stan A. Kaplowitz Ph.D. Professor of Sociology 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...
October 31st, 2011
Written by Janice S. Ellis Ph.D. in Latest News, National Collegiate Dialogue with 80 Comments
Stereotypes and labels wield a lot of persuasive power, intentionally or unintentionally in our daily lives.We trust the labels on the commodities (clothes, foods, etc.) that we buy, often grabbing and purchasing without reading the fine print — totally unaware of the content or any changes, updates that could be there. And, yet we fancy ourselves as being informed consumers.This tendency carries...
