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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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Tagged African Americans, Baltimore City Community College, capital punishment, Central Park Five, community college, criminal justice system, critical race theory, divisive, Donald Trump, economically disadvantage, ethnicity, executions, Exonerated Five, historically black college, historically black community college, Introduction to Sociology, John Macionis, Latinos, minorities, New York Times, perceptions, race, racial stereotypes, sensitive subject matter, sociology, teaching ethnicity, teaching race, teaching sociology, Yusef Salaam
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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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Tagged African Americans, Alex Haley, Autobiography of Malcolm X, Blacks, Colgate University, context, diversity, English teacher, ethnicity, ghettoization, Introduction to Sociology, Lansing Michigan, Malcolm X, N word, race, race and inequality, racism, racist, racist language, scientific research, socialization, sociology, White person, Whites
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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
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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Tagged African Americans, Asians, bean bag, biases, classroom, cultural differences, diversity, ethnicity, Howard Schultz, hygiene, inclusive society, Native Americans, race, Race Together, racial conversations, racial myths, sex, social inequality, sociology, Starbucks, taboo, teacher training, USA Today, White Americans
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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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Tagged Apple, Blacks, civil rights, culture of inclusion, diversity, ethnicity, Facebook, gender, inclusion, Jesse Jackson, Latinos, leadership, LinkedIn, race, Silicon Valley, tech-industry, twitter
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Valuing Hair
As a woman, do you consider whether your hair makes a political statement? Is wearing your hair natural something that you avoid so that you will be accepted by your coworkers? Well, the answer to these questions might have something … Continue reading
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Tagged A Girl Like Me, African American females, afro, age, bad hair, ethnicity, Gabby Douglas, Glamour Magazine, good hair, hair, natural hair, olympics, race, workplace diversity
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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
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
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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Tagged African Americans, Baltimore, Baltimore City Community College, diversity, Emmett Till, empathy, ethnicity, Florida, injustice, intolerance, Martin Luther King, prejudgments, prejudice, profiling, race, Rodney King, Sanford, sociology, students, teachable moment, Trayvon Martin
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