Tag: Chronicle of Higher Education

  • Mixed-Race Chic The Chronicle Review The Chronicle of Higher Education 2009-05-19 Rainier Spencer, Associate Vice Provost for Academic Affairs University of Nevada, Las Vegas Popular wisdom suggests that we are in the midst of a transformation in the way race is constructed in the United States. Indeed, so strong and so inevitable is this shift…

  • Brazil’s Affirmative-Action Quotas: Progress? The Chronicle of Higher Education 2012-11-05 Ibram H. Rogers, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies State University of New York, Albany Brazil recently passed what was probably the most sweeping affirmative-action law in the modern history of higher education. While the livelihood of affirmative action in the United States is in the…

  • Deep Roots and Tangled Branches The Chronicle of Higher Education 2006-02-03 Troy Duster, Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology University of California, Berkeley Also Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge New York University People who know their biological parents and grandparents typically take the information for granted.…

  • Race (Part 1) The Chronicle of Higher Education Blog: Brainstorm—Ideas and culture. 2012-04-09 David Barash, Professor of Psychology University of Washington, Seattle Here’s a delicate subject, especially given the nationwide anguish over what appears to have been the cold-blooded, racially lubricated if not racially motivated murder of Trayvon Martin: race itself. More specifically and more…

  • Obama, Blackness, and Postethnic America The Chronicle of Higher Education 2008-02-29 David A. Hollinger, Preston Hotchkis Professor of American History University of California, Berkeley The Obama candidacy challenges our notions of identity politics In their support for Hillary Rodham Clinton over Barack Obama, prominent black leaders have made it clear that black skin color itself…