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Guess Who’s Coming to Lunch?

by Dr. Marybeth Gasman, November 18, 2010

Last week, I sat down to have what I thought would be a pleasant lunch with someone I had talked on the phone with quite a few times. I’d never met her but we had developed a good professional rapport. Our conversation was moving along fine — we both exchanged

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The Personality of the K-12 Achievement Gap

by Dr. Ibram Rogers, November 15, 2010

I still remember my academic bliss in fourth grade. At a small private school in Jamaica, Queens, N.Y., in a relatively large class taught by Mrs. Miles, I received 100 on all of my final exams. It probably went to my head but a cocky 9-year-old is considered cute. Almost 20

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The Season of Racial Discontent

by Dr. Elwood Watson, September 10, 2010

For anyone who thought the election of Barack Obama ushered in an era of post-racial harmony, several events that have transpired over the past few months should assuage any doubts of such a notion. Here are a few of the incidents: Shirley Sherrod, a 62-year-old Black woman with a long history

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Dangerous Liaisons: Christie, Colored Friend of Tiffany

by Dr. Robin Lee Hughes, September 7, 2010

The 2003 International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education article, Tiffany, Friend of People of Color: White Investments in Antiracism, by Dr. Audrey Thompson is a powerful scholarly article on whiteness and the problematic nature of keeping Whiteness at the center of antiracism. It is

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Gaslight: Proving Institutionalized Racism

by Dr. Robin Lee Hughes, July 25, 2010

  In a recent talk, I stated that institutional and structural racist systems of opportunity and privilege still exist in the academy. Noticing the pushback — furrowed brows looked like neon signs plastered on folks’ foreheads — I engaged them in a conversation that went something as follows:  Search committees talk about the

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