April 18th, 2011
Written by Amy OLoughlin in National Collegiate Dialogue with 10 Comments
In January, The New York Times published “Black? White? Asian? More Young Americans Choose All of the Above,” a provocative and widely circulated article about college students of mixed racial and ethnic backgrounds, as well as the rise in population of a multiracial America.As the article states, since 2000, when the U.S. Census Bureau allowed Americans to identify themselves in more than one...
April 12th, 2011
Written by Janice S. Ellis Ph.D. in National Collegiate Dialogue with 48 Comments
Is it in the name? Is it the belief by more than 25 percent of Americans that he is Muslim despite his repeated affirmation that he is Christian, and doubt that he was born in the United States? Or, is it because he is the first black President of the United States?Unlike any other president before him, President Barack Obama’s place of birth is persistently challenged. It began when he won the...
April 11th, 2011
Written by Sam Richards in National Collegiate Dialogue with 0 Comments
In this video lecture titled Free Will vs Determination, part two of a six part lecture series on Race and Ethnic Inequality, Dr. Sam Richards discusses the sociological impacts of Free Will vs Determination and how these topics allows students to apply it to both current and future discussions about all aspects of the causality of human behavior. This in-depth lecture covers a wide variety of...
April 4th, 2011
Written by Samuel Coleman Ph.D. in National Collegiate Dialogue with 8 Comments
Although racial discrimination poses a devastating instrument of oppression, social work texts lack a clear and consistent definition of race. The solution lies in according race the status of an “actor version” concept, while exploring the origins and variations of race ideas using “scientific observer version” explanations. This distinction provides the means for determining the sources of...
April 4th, 2011
Written by Janice S. Ellis Ph.D. in National Collegiate Dialogue with 31 Comments
The 2010 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom represent the great racial, ethnic, and cultural mix that make up America. Several weeks ago, President Barack Obama presented the awards and provided a snapshot of each recipient’s extraordinary achievement, despite their own personal challenges and circumstance, in improving the lives of others. It was a seminal moment of what this great...
