Category: Campus Life

  • On the Record: Georgetown and the racial identity of President Patrick Healy The Georgetown Voice 2010-04-14 Patrick Healy Matt Sheptuck (COL ’10) is an American Studies major writing his senior thesis, which explores how Georgetown University has perceived Jesuit Father Patrick Healy’s racial identity over the years. In his research Sheptuck found that Healy, whom…

  • Good riddance to RU’s Powell Hall The Roanoke Times Roanoke, Virginia 2010-09-21 Christina Nuckols, Editorial Page Editor One can, if optimistically predisposed to believe in the inherent honesty and good-natured character of people, accept the story of why Radford University’s arts and music building still bore the name of John Powell until last week. One…

  • Mixing kids in school leads to more mixed-race adult relationships IZA Newsroom Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (Institute for the Study of Labor) Bonn, Germany 2016-11-24 Does the racial mix of students’ classmates affect their behavior later on in life? A new IZA Discussion Paper by Luca Paolo Merlino, Max Friedrich Steinhardt and Liam Wren-Lewis compares…

  • This paper investigates the impact of individuals’ school peers on their adult romantic relationships. In particular, we consider the effect of quasi-random variation in the share of black students within an individual’s cohort on the percentage of adults’ cohabiting partners that are black. We find that more black peers leads to more relationships with blacks…

  • Multiracial college students’ experiences with multiracial microaggressions Race Ethnicity and Education Published online 2016-11-07 pages 1-17 DOI: 10.1080/13613324.2016.1248836 Jessica C. Harris, Multi-Term Lecturer Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies University of Kansas While research on monoracial college students’ experiences with racial microaggressions increases, minimal, if any, research focuses on multiracial college students’ experiences with…

  • Helping mixed heritage children develop ‘character and resilience’ in schools Improving Schools November 2016, Volume 19, Number 3 pages 197-211 DOI: 10.1177/1365480216650311 Kirstin Lewis Educational Studies Goldsmiths, University of London Recent UK government policy suggests that all schools have a key role to play in building ‘character and resilience’ in children. This article draws on…

  • Mixed race and mixed reactions Columbia Daily Spectator 2016-10-17 Laura Salgado “But, like, what are you?” It’s a question I’m asked pretty often, both inside and outside of Morningside Heights. You’d think that after almost two decades on this planet I’d finally be able to answer it easily, but you’d be wrong. This seemingly innocent…

  • Being “Dual Heritage” In Modern Britain HC At Exeter Cornwall 2016-10-11 Stacey Harris, 2nd year Environmental Science Student Solihull, West Midlands As many of you may be aware, October is Black History Month, which acts as a platform for education, reflection and a celebration of the trials and triumphs of African and Caribbean communities throughout…

  • Meritocracy in Obama’s Gilded Age The Chronicle of Higher Education 2016-09-25 Aziz Rana, Professor of Law Cornell University, Ithaca, New York The Obama administration’s vision of social mobility in America is bound up with a story about higher education. According to this story, elite colleges and universities are engines of American opportunity. They select the…

  • “So, What Are You?” Columbia Daily Spectator New York, New York 2016-10-04 Alexandra Peebles and Eliza Solomon Members of the Mixed Heritage Society at a club meeting. (Jared Orellana / Staff Photographer) “For me, personally, thinking of myself as defined by race has never really worked, because I don’t fit in with the Asians, [and]…