Category: Campus Life

  • At Yale, a Right That Doesn’t Outweigh a Wrong The New York Times 2016-04-29 Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Peter V & C Vann Woodward Professor of History, African American Studies, and American Studies Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut NEW HAVEN — Yale made a grievous mistake this week when it announced that it would keep the…

  • ‘Our schools are failing mixed raced children’ The Voice London, England, United Kingdom 2016-04-02 Dinah Moreley Stereotypical expectations that this group have ‘confused identities’ often mean they experience racism from teachers and fellow pupils A REPORT by People in Harmony, (PIH) the national charity for mixed race people and families has highlighted the experience of…

  • I’m the new NUS president – and no, I’m not an antisemitic Isis sympathiser The Guardian 2016-04-24 Malia Bouattia ‘Some may not agree with my politics and ideologies, but I do believe the student movement has a shared goal.’ Photograph: Vicky Design/NUS website The accusations being directed at me this week are deeply troubling and…

  • Malia Bouattia’s election as NUS president proves deeply divisive The Guardian 2016-04-22 Jessica Elgot At the NUS conference, Bouattia won on the first round. Photograph: NUS/PA Jewish student groups alarmed by her election, but the first black Muslim woman in the role has nerves of steel, and young activists love her for that It is…

  • Toward a critical multiracial theory in education International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education Volume 29, Issue 6, 2016 pages 795-813 DOI: 10.1080/09518398.2016.1162870 Jessica C. Harris, Multi-Term Lecturer Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies University of Kansas This manuscript lays the foundation for a critical multiracial theory (MultiCrit) in education. The author uses extant…

  • Moral Judgments of Racial Passing Sponsored Research Lewis & Clark College Portland, Oregon December 2015 The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) has awarded Assistant Professor of Psychology Diana Leonard a grant from the Grants-in-Aid program. These funds will support Dr. Leonard’s new collaborative research project, “Moral Judgments of Racial Passing: Role…

  • MiXed at Cornell Illustrates Diversity of ‘Multiracial Experience’ at Cornell The Cornell Daily Sun Ithaca, New York 2016-04-10 Henry Kanengeiser MiXed at Cornell — a student organization dedicated to creating community among mixed race individuals — will host its first ever Blend Conference in Klarman Hall this weekend. The two-day conference will focus on the…

  • Study finds mixed-race individuals are fastest-growing demographic group, most discriminated against The Daily Targum: Serving the Rutgers community since 1869. Independent since 1980. 2016-03-31 Samantha Karas The fastest growing racial group in the United States is mixed-race individuals, but they are also the ones experiencing increasing amounts of prejudice from white people, according to a…

  • What Is Critical Race Theory? Harvard Magazine 2016-03-22 Marina Bolotnikova Khiara Bridges Photograph courtesy of Khiara Bridges RACIAL-JUSTICE ACTIVISTS at Harvard Law School (HLS) won one of the largest public battles over the school’s legacy this month, when the administration agreed to abandon the existing HLS shield. The shield was modeled after the crest of…

  • Multiethnic student group Mixed receives 2016 Perkins Prize Cornell Chronicle Ithaca, New York 2016-03-17 Nancy Doolittle In 2015 members of the student club Mixed at Cornell created the print and digital Cornell Hapa Book Facebook page, featuring photographs and stories of 60 self-identified multiracial students, staff and faculty who answered the question, “What does being…