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Students Make Themselves Heard:  The Central Park Exonerated Five: Part 3 (of 4)

Previously: As a White professor teaching sociology and diversity at a Historically Black college (Baltimore City Community College), I regularly dealt with sensitive and potentially divisive issues. This particular day, one of my Intro Soc students raised a question on … Continue reading

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Blindsided by the N-word

Ten years ago or so, a student of mine was blindsided by the “N-word,” and so was I.  I had just uttered this troublesome word in my Introduction to Sociology class at Baltimore City Community College, a college with a … Continue reading

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Stereotype Threat Hits Home

For a long time, I have been interested in the idea of stereotype threat, its causes and consequences, and what I can do as a professor to lessen or eliminate it among my students.  Stereotype threat, which refers to the … Continue reading

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The Classroom Makes Much More Sense Than Starbucks: PART TWO

RACE TOGETHER is an initiative sponsored by Starbucks and USA Today.  Simply put, it seeks to stimulate talk about race in America.  According to Howard Schultz, Starbucks CEO, it is an “opportunity to begin to re-examine how we can create … Continue reading

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Diversity Training and Police: Ten Success Strategies Part I

As someone who has conducted training for police in the field of diversity, I am well aware of the challenge of doing this effectively.  Increasingly, attention is directed at “divides” in the U.S., including those that evolve around race, ethnicity, … Continue reading

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Silicon Valley:  It’s Not Just About Diversity

In the last month, with all of the attention on the glaring lack of diversity among the workforce at Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Apple, and other tech-industry giants, it is easy to become overly fixated on numbers. The demographics of these … Continue reading

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Women’s Colleges Still Needed?

Recently, I read an article that addressed the challenges confronting women’s colleges, including their declining enrollment nationwide.  A small, small fraction of prospective female college students are interested in a women’s college.  When I started attending college in the 1960s, … Continue reading

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Work/Family Balance: A Male Perspective

Recently, the media has been full of stories about the struggle to balance work and family, and whether women can have it all.  Anne-Marie Slaughter restarted this discussion with her article, “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All.”  Then, a … Continue reading

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Our Feelings About Trayvon

I teach at Baltimore City Community College (BCCC).  BCCC has a population that is predominantly African-American.  As a Professor of Sociology, I hear about all of the issues, concerns, and feelings that my students bring to class with them each … Continue reading

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