Tag: Race: Page 66

Native Americans

Tribal College Educator Raises America’s Multiethnic Profile

Muckleshoot Tribal College education resource coordinator Louie Gong leads nonprofit organization MAVIN, which builds pathways to healthier communities by celebrating the mixed-heritage experience.

January 6, 2010

African-American

Michelle Obama Images Part of U. Of Michigan Race Exhibition

Two contrasting images of Michelle Obama – wearing pearls and smiling, and as a rifle-toting revolutionary – are on display at the University of Michigan as part of an exhibit that considers race and visual representations.

January 4, 2010

Sports

DIVERSE BOOKSHELF: Holiday Helpings

Here are a few delectable dishes that can satisfy any literary appetite until the new year.

December 23, 2009

Students

SPECTRUM: MIXED IN AMERICA

Louie Gong, an education resource coordinator at Muckleshoot Tribal College in Auburn, Wash., is wellversed on issues of multiculturalism and mixed-race heritage but he isn’t an expert and has no intentions of becoming one.

December 23, 2009

African-American

Independent Scholar Examines Cotton Trade and Race in Book

After decades of working in international finance and lecturing occasionally at universities, Gene Dattel has written Cotton and Race in the Making of America: The Human Costs of Economic Power, a history of the U.S. cotton trade in the 19th and 20th centuries.

November 30, 2009

Faculty & Staff

SPECTRUM: CONFINEMENT TOO COSTLY FOR MIDDLE-CLASS BLACK WOMEN

It is time for middle-class Black women to break the mold, argues Lisa B. Thompson argues in her new book.

October 28, 2009

Health

PARSING THE REACTION TO OBAMA

Scholars say extreme criticisms of president defy simple explanation.

October 28, 2009

African-American

Parsing the Reaction to Obama

Scholars say extreme criticisms of U.S. president defy simple explanation.

October 26, 2009

Home

With Olympics Comes Lessons on Race in Brazil

To Dr. Vânia Penha-Lopes, the selection of Rio de Janeiro to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games, the first in South America, is a teachable moment.

October 8, 2009

Students

UMass-Amherst Journalism Professor Teaches Students To Be Culturally Sensitive

Journalism professors say it’s imperative to sensitize future journalists to racial issues so that they can adequately report on hot-button topics such as this summer’s arrest of Harvard University professor Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. by a White police officer.

October 7, 2009

Sports

With Olympics Comes Lessons on Race in Brazil

To Dr. Vânia Penha-Lopes, the selection of Rio de Janeiro to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games, the first in South America, is a teachable moment.

October 7, 2009

African-American

S.F. State University Hosts Conference To Celebrate, Further Explore Ethnic Studies

At a time when some pundits and critics contend that ethnic studies are no longer needed, the dean of the only U.S. college devoted to the discipline calls the struggle to survive a collective one.

October 6, 2009