DIVERSE Views

From Minority to AALANA, What’s in a Name?

by Dr. Ibram Rogers, March 2, 2010

About three years ago, I stopped referring to people of African, Latino, Asian, and Native American descent as minorities.  I dropped the word “minority” from my spoken vocabulary for some of the same reasons many African-Americans buried Negro in the 1960s and instead started calling themselves Black or Afro-American. (Ironically, more

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Misunderstanding History in the Age of Obama

by Dr. Marybeth Gasman, March 1, 2010

  On Feb. 26, President Barack Obama signed an executive order recognizing the nation’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). In honor of the event, the president said of HBCUs, “They are the campuses where a people were educated, where a middle class was built, where a dream took hold.”   As someone

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The Cos’ Effect

by Dr. Murali Balaji, February 25, 2010

Nearly 20 years after its final episode, The Cosby Show continues to be a powerful teaching tool and an intense source of discussion. As someone who grew up watching the Huxtables, I often mistook the sitcom for reality. The Huxtables were not characters, but real people whose experiences I could

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Are You in This for the Love of Sports and Winning? The New Academy …… Sport Academies

by Dr. Robin Lee Hughes, February 24, 2010

There is a plethora of “For the Love of Whomever” television shows out there. Most of the time, a D-list celebrity tries to find love and the world is his or her oyster. The producers place a casting call and they reel in the candidates. The celebrity or wannabe then

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They Will Come: Recruitment of Black and Latinos to Rural, Traditionally White Colleges

by Dr. Ibram Rogers, February 22, 2010

There is an absurdly low number of African-American and Latino faculty and students at my college, a situation that exists at thousands of colleges across the nation in overwhelming White, rural or semirural communities.   That is not necessarily a problem, as it would be statistically impossible for African-American and Latino students

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