How we see history

The Pew Research Center has a fascinating study of how we see historical events, by age, race, ethnicity, gender, politicaly party. Here are some of the charts: By age: By race/ethnicity: You can read more at the link above.

U.S. Civil Rights Commission: Civil rights trump “religious exemption”

The U.S. Civil Rights Commission issued a report last week that examined so-called “religious exemptions” (where if I think gays are going to hell, I’m not going to bake them a cake) too often stampede across civil rights. And — this being a rational, secular country that respects civil rights — guess what was found …

Read “The Original Underclass”

Sharon sent this, a really interesting article from The Atlantic. While we cast about to define why so many white voters are drawn to Candidate Drumpf: The gloomy state of affairs in the lower reaches of white America should not have caught the rest of the country as off guard as it has—and mobilizing solutions …

We played the race card

As part of a lecture on identity, I shared with the University of New Haven students in my COMM1100 class (Human Communication) WNPR’s Michele Norris’s The Race Card Project, which asks participants to write something — anything — about race, but use only six words. We talked about the notion that we are a “post-racial” …

Please do not talk about our hormones

Yet another male tennis player — Novak Djokovic — had something to say about lady tennis and lady-bodies, because of hormones and stuff. Too bad, because the top-ranked tennis player was chugging right along there, talking about equal rights and stuff and then? He tripped on his tongue. Quickest way to dismiss a woman? Call …

Give this a listen

Yesterday, three CCSU students appeared on WNPR’s “Where We Live” with John Dankosky. They discussed their work this semester in the realm of wealth and income inequality, through the prism of race in the run-up to our big Dec. 10 event, Bridging the Gap: A Dream Deferred. There was no professor with them, and no …

Check out my CCSU class’s inequality blog

Right here. The class, COMM 345, Writing for Electronic Media, is studying wealth and income inequality through the prism of race. We’re capping the semester with a Bridging the Gap event on campus,  and you’re invited: 5 p.m., a buffet dinner 5:30, live judging of students’ work (writing, photography, videography) 7, keynote speaker Tim Wise, …

Read “Forward Through Ferguson: A Path Toward Racial Equality”

The report was issued on Monday by the Ferguson Commission, a diverse 16-member volunteer group charged with looking at Ferguson and beyond, post-Michael Brown’s death. I’ve started my way back through it a second time, and I have to tell you, the report takes a deep dive into race and makes, by its own count, 189 calls to …

Let’s take a deep breath

Rachel Dolezal, former NAACP official in Spokane, Wash., went on “Today” — uh, today — and reiterated that she identifies as black. Dolezal’s parents recently went on record to say that the family is (mostly) Caucasian, though their daughter has identified as African American for some time. The Interwebs has gone wild with this in …

In less than a year:

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