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Appeals Panel Backs UW’s Use of Race in Law School Admissions

Appeals Panel Backs UW’s Use of Race in Law School AdmissionsSEATTLEThe University of Washington Law School did not illegally discriminate against three White applicants when it denied them admission in the mid-1990s, a federal appeals court panel ruled in December. The decision upheld a 2002 ruling by U.S. District Judge Thomas Zilly, and means Katuria […]

January 12, 2005

Recruitment & Retention

University of Georgia President Says School Will Increase Black Enrollment

University of Georgia President Says School Will Increase Black EnrollmentOnly 200 Black students enrolled out of a class of 4,500 freshmenATHENS, Ga. University of Georgia President Michael Adams said the school will take steps in the coming year to increase its enrollment of Black freshmen. He declined to comment on a faculty committee’s recommendation that […]

December 29, 2004

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Whites Denied Admission to University

Whites Denied Admission to University Of Michigan Seek Damages for 30,000 OthersANN ARBOR, Mich.Lawyers for two White students whose lawsuit overturned the affirmative action admissions program then in use at the University of Michigan have asked a federal judge to award damages to 30,000 other White and Asian applicants. The motion was filed earlier this […]

December 29, 2004

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The “Tragic Mulatta” Revisited: Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Antislavery Fiction

The “Tragic Mulatta” Revisited: Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Antislavery FictionBy Dr. Eve Allegra Raimon Rutgers University Press, 2004208 pp., $21.95 paper ISBN 0-8135-3482-8; cloth ISBN 0-8135-3481-X In The “Tragic Mulatta” Revisited, Dr. Eve Allegra Raimon focuses on the mixed-race female slave in literature, arguing that this figure became a symbolic vehicle for explorations of […]

December 15, 2004

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NAACP to Search For New Leadership

NAACP to Search For New LeadershipBALTIMORENational Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) President Kweisi Mfume said Nov. 30 that he’s stepping down as the head of the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights group to spend more time with his family.The organization’s legal counsel, Dennis Hayes, will serve as interim president while a […]

December 15, 2004

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U.S. Supreme Court Debates Use of Racial Segregation in Prisons

U.S. Supreme Court Debates Use of Racial Segregation in PrisonsWASHINGTONThe Supreme Court took up a racial segregation case last month that asks if Black California inmates are being unconstitutionally bunked together for months at a time, in the name of keeping prisons safe. The Bush administration has sided with a Black convicted killer who claims […]

December 1, 2004

Students

Recent Scholarship on Race

Institutional Racism in Higher EducationEds. Dr. Ian Law, Dr. Deborah Phillips and Dr. Laura TurneyTrentham Books, 2004166 pp., $35.00 paperback ISBN 1858563135This book reports on cutting-edge research on racism in higher education — a matter that has received far less attention than racism in primary and secondary schools. The result of a project funded by the Higher […]

November 17, 2004

International

Becoming a Citizen of the World

Becoming a Citizen of the WorldBy Karen JenkinsW.E.B. Du Bois, one of the leading intellectuals of the 20th century, was unwavering in his commitment to the equality of the colored peoples of the world. An intellectual giant and a life-long agitator, Du Bois devoted his life to ensuring that the majority of the people in […]

November 3, 2004

Faculty & Staff

Stanford Lures Harvard Professors Bobo, Morgan

Stanford Lures Harvard Professors Bobo, MorganBOSTON For married partners in academia, tenure, or the lack thereof, can complicate a couple’s situation substantially, and not always in the most positive manner. But for two nationally renowned professors, Lawrence Bobo and Marcyliena Morgan, who are married, tenure troubles have resulted in a coastal shift that positions them […]

October 20, 2004

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OBAMA RISING

OBAMA RISING All but assured to become the fifth Black American to hold a seat in the U.S. Senate, Obama represents to many the emergence of a new generation of national political leadershipBy Ronald Roach SPRINGFIELD, Ill. Less than two months after a stellar keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention in Boston, Barack Obama […]

October 6, 2004

African-American

Race Matters in New Harvard Journal

Race Matters in New Harvard Journal   But given the diversity of Black studies programs, will the publication be inclusive enough, asks a scholar By Ronald RoachIn an academic publishing venture that seeks to honor the intellectual legacy of Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois, political scientist Dr. Michael Dawson and sociologist Dr. Lawrence Bobo, both of the […]

August 25, 2004

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Race, Class, and the Postindustrial City

Race, Class, and the Postindustrial CityBy Dr. Frank Harold Wilson259 pp., $65.50 hardcover ISBN: 0-7914-6015-0; $21.95 paperback ISBN: 0791460169;  State University of New York Press, 2004 Race, Class, and the Postindustrial City thoroughly explores the scholarship of Dr. William Julius Wilson, one of the nation’s leading sociologists and public intellectuals, and the controversies surrounding his […]

August 25, 2004