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New Mexico Educators Won’t Face Federal Sanctions for School Racism Project

ALBUQUERQUE N.M. School leaders in a southern New Mexico district will not face federal sanctions for allowing a high school project on racism in which students posted signs reading “Whites Only” and “People of Color” above water faucets, federal officials said.

July 17, 2007

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New Mexico School District Will Implement Policy Against Racial Harassment

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights says the Truth or Consequences school district must ensure an educational environment free of racial discrimination after a Black student complained about a high school racism project.

July 17, 2007

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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

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Just the Stats: Top 100 Popular Disciplines By Race, Gender

As encouraging as the numbers of minorities earning advanced degrees may have been, gender differences across racial lines continue to persist at the master’s and doctoral levels.

July 12, 2007

African-American

The Assassination of the Black Male Image. – book reviews

The Assassination of the Black Male Image, authored by Earl Ofari Hutchinson, a media critic and political analyst, offers a thoughtful perspective on the racial and sexual stereotyping of Black males.

July 11, 2007

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Black, Jewish, and Interracial: It’s Not the Color of Your Skin but the Race of Your Kin and Other Myths of Identity. – book reviews

Katya Gibel Azoulay seems perfectly placed to interrogate the intricacies of interracial and biracial, especially Black/ Jewish, identity formation. Azoulay’s mother was an Austrian Jew who fled the Nazi invasion. Her father is West Indian of mixed racial descent who migrated to this country as a child.

July 11, 2007

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Thumbs down on the SAT – scholastic assessment test

SAN FRANCISCO Echoing the recommendation of a Latino task force that the SAT requirement for admission to the University of California (UC) be dropped, several speakers at the fifty-third National Association for College Admission Counseling conference declared their opposition to standardized test requirements for college admission.

July 11, 2007

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Spurring interaction: Cornell is counting on outreach programs to spur cross-racial and cross-ethnic interaction – Cornell University

Cornell University officials are hoping that student residential-housing outreach programs being launched this school year will help the upstate New York institution avoid the problems it experienced last spring when a conservative student publication offended many university students with an Ebonics parody.

July 11, 2007

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Breaking the Stereotype

Breaking the Stereotype As a coach at a large, racially diverse suburban public high school, the females in our sports program mirror this trend (see “The Prevalence of Black Females in College Sports: It’s Just An Illusion,” May 31). Basketball, track and cheerleading are almost exclusively African-American, while our other 10 girls’ sports teams are […]

July 11, 2007

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‘Tomb Raiders’

Yale’s ultra-secret Skull and Bones Society is believed to possess the skull of legendary Apache chief Geronimo.

July 11, 2007

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Tomb Raiders

The skull and partial remains of the legendary Chiricahua Apache chief Geronimo may languish in a display case somewhere in one of Yale University’s most mysterious buildings. Rumors have swirled for years that the remains are located in the “Tomb,” the headquarters of the ultra-secret Skull and Bones Society.

July 8, 2007

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To be or not to be: that is the question – A Multiracial Statistic

Maria P. P. Root, ed., The Multicultural Experience. Racial Borders As The New Frontier. (Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 1996) (Paper, xxviii, 481 pp.) Hardcover: $58.00 Softcover: $26.95

June 20, 2007