Tag: Social Sciences: Page 34

Students

1998 Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars Awards – 1998 nominees and recipients

Six years ago, Black Issues In Higher Education established the Sports Scholars Award to honor undergraduate students of color who exemplify the standards set by tennis great Arthur Ashe Jr.

July 12, 2007

Sports

Black scholars on sports: controversial book brings Black intellectuals together to discuss whether African Americans are preoccupied with sports – John Hoberman, ‘Darwin’s Athletes: How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race’

Controversial book brings Black intellectuals together to discuss whether African Americans are preoccupied with sports

July 12, 2007

Health

Sisters in science – few African American women in science programs

More African American women participate in higher education than African American men, and the gap is widening. In 1995, there were 556,000 African American men enrolled as students in all institutions of higher education at all levels of matriculation, compared to 918,000 African American women. The growth in the number of African American women also exceeded the growth rate among African American men.

July 12, 2007

Faculty & Staff

It’s not rocket science – finding African American undergraduates for graduate study in science – includes related articles

Earlier in his career, Dr. Luther S. Williams spent nearly ten years as the only faculty member of color out of seventy in his department at Purdue University. The African American microbiologist is now assistant director of education and human resources at the National Science Foundation (NSF).

July 12, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Summer camp for profs! – Faculty Resource Network, New York University

When Morris Brown College wanted faculty members to participate in a highly regarded faculty development program during the summer of 1997, school administrators turned to Dr. Kathie Stromile Golden, a newly hired political science professor in the school’s social science department, to make a pitch to her peers.

July 11, 2007

Latinx

Academic turf war at East Los Angeles: move to include course on Central Americans in Chicano Studies Department meets resistance – East Lost Angeles College

Monterey Park, Calif. East Los Angeles College (ELAC) is the site of a controversy that many people have seen coming for a long time. It revolves around what appears to be an academic battle over turf.

July 11, 2007

LGBTQ+

Yo’ Mama’s Disfunktional! – book reviews

I’m warning you, once you open this compact collection of six razor-sharp essays, you’re going to have to stand back! Black, White, Yellow, Brown, Red, male, female, straight, gay, college-educated, streetwise, conservative, liberal, whatever – it doesn’t matter. From the initial essay detailing Robin D. G. Kelley’s take on how traditional social scientists construct the ghetto, “Looking for the ‘Real’ Nigga,” to the final take, “Looking B[l]ackward: 2097-1997,” readers of Yo’ Mama’s Disfunktional! are literally compelled by the strength of Kelley’s arguments to identify and/or re-think their positions in the contemporary “culture wars” fray.

July 11, 2007

Home

A Treasury of African-American Christmas Stories. – book reviews

A well-known West African proverb states: “Only when lions have historians will hunters stop being heroes.”

July 11, 2007

Students

Chicano generation gap: method of activism by scholars at center of NACCS schism – includes related article on Moviemiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan

Sacramento Protesting California’s anti-affirmative action Proposition 209 and the general anti-Latino and anti-immigrant mood of the state and the country, the twenty-fourth annual National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) conference kicked off with a rally here late last month at the base of the state capitol.

July 10, 2007

Home

FAMU Professor, Husband Die Following Domestic Dispute

TALLAHASSEE Fla. The husband of an assistant business professor at Florida A&M University died Saturday morning, just days after police found his wife dead in her home.

July 8, 2007

African-American

Gone Fishin.’ – book reviews

Gone Fishin’, the first-written and latest-published of Walter Mosley’s Easy Rawlins novels, may well be his finest work. Written in 1988, the book is a complex work with layers of meaning, yet it is deceptively simple and therefore easy to read and completely absorbing. Perhaps that is one of the marks of a classic.

July 6, 2007

Home

Light enthusiasts descend on MSU campus to talk optical wonders

BOZEMAN Mont. Scientists from around the world have gathered in southern Montana this week to talk rainbows, halos and glories.

June 26, 2007