Tag: Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

  • When it comes to Harris, I like pointing out her Asian side often because wouldn’t that be cool to have the first Asian American president of the United States be half-Black and a woman?

  • It was Shirley Kitching’s fascinating stories shared during holiday and summer visits to Chicago – particularly one about an ancestor who was sent to the West Coast to live her life as a White woman by “passing” – that influenced Hobbs’ decision to become a historian and author.

  • Race Unknown Diverse: Issues in Higher Education 2011-02-21 Katti Gray Bryan Lee, a senior at the University of California, Irvine, has noticed that some of his classmates adamantly declare their multiracial heritage while others choose not to identify themselves as being any particular ethnicity. The half-Korean, half-White biomedical engineering major is co-president of the university’s…

  • Elliot Rodger at the Sometimes Troubling Intersection of Race and Gender Diverse: Issues In Higher Education 2014-06-04 Elwood Watson, Professor of History, African American Studies, and Gender Studies East Tennessee State University Many have now heard of Elliot Rodger, the self-hating, misogynistic 22-year-old man who shot more than a dozen people and murdered six in…

  • Being Mixed in Today’s America Diverse: Issues in Higher Education 2014-02-07 Jonathan Ng California State University, San Bernardino For me, being mixed ethnicity has been a multiple-way street ― like a giant intersection. I am Black, White and Chinese; however, based on my skin color, most people classify me as Black. I look racially ambiguous,…

  • UMASS Recognizes Growing Interdisciplinary Study of Black Germans in Academia Diverse: Issues in Higher Education 2013-08-12 Jamal Watson AMHERST, Mass.—In an effort to recognize a relatively young academic discipline that many in the academy have never heard of before, nearly a hundred students and scholars gathered at Amherst College over the weekend to discuss their…

  • Family Histories of ‘Passing’ from Black to White Documented in Book Diverse: Issues in Higher Education 2011-09-06 Katti Gray In the summer of 1993, as American-born Daniel Sharfstein registered Blacks to cast their first ballot in race-riven South Africa, he volunteered alongside a South African woman, who professed to be as authentically African as any…

  • San Francisco State Journalism Professor Yumi Wilson’s Multicultural Heritage Helps Connect People Diverse: Issues in Higher Education 2011-08-11 Lydia Lum San Francisco State Journalism Professor Yumi Wilson’s Multicultural Heritage Helps Connect People Yumi Wilson teaches news writing, opinion and literary journalism at San Francisco State University where she’s an associate professor of journalism. Formerly a…