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...
October 24th, 2011
Written by John Markert - Associate Professor of Sociology in Latest News, National Collegiate Dialogue with 16 Comments
Cumberland UniversityAbstract:The George Lopez Show is the first successful television show with a Latino in a leading role that features Hispanic material since Freddie Prinze's thirty-year-old sitcom, Chico and the Man. This study seeks to assess how Latinos are presented on The George Lopez Show. A content analysis reveals that the show perpetuates some of the stereotypes about Hispanics that...
October 24th, 2011
Written by Abby L. Ferber in Latest News, National Collegiate Dialogue with 23 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. Last week featured Christian Lander, author of the “Stuff White People Like” books and...
October 17th, 2011
Written by Janice S. Ellis Ph.D. in Latest News, National Collegiate Dialogue, Race Relations with 75 Comments
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial was officially dedicated this past Sunday, October 16, 2011 at the National Mall in Washington, DC. In addition to the 30-foot memorial being erected near that of three U.S. presidents, Abraham Lincoln among them, the significance is far-reaching. As a caring ordinary citizen, King was motivated to fight for racial, social, economic, and educational equality....
October 17th, 2011
Written by Richard Lempert Professor of Law and Sociology in Latest News, National Collegiate Dialogue, Race Relations with 7 Comments
University of MichiganThis 2009 Law & Society Association presidential address combines the personal and political to address issues relating to race relations in the United States. Combining narrative methods and quantitative data the article traces the roots of the author’s commitment to racial equality and evaluates the degree to which over the past 60 years anti-black prejudice has...
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