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Dismissals spark protests at Texas-Arlington – advisory council of Texas-Arlington University

The firing last month of the director and staff of the University of Texas at Arlington’s Center for Mexican-American Studies continues to draw a barrage of protests front campus and community activists.

June 22, 2007

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We need to emphasize similarities as well as differences – DiverSimilarity, the paradigm to effectively manage ethnic similarities and dissimilarities

Prior to the 1960s, the dominant paradigm was the assimilation paradigm, which espouses the values and beliefs of the white Western European culture and seeks to modify and suppress non-white, non European values.

June 20, 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

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We will not ‘get over it’ – White woman tells Black woman to get over history

A few weeks ago, I was sitting on a panel with a rabid white woman who repeatedly insisted that Black people “get over” history. Like a dog with a bone, she had a point she would not let go. “Slavery happened. What does it have to do with today,” she said, her voice rising.

June 17, 2007

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We will not ‘get over it’ – White woman tells Black woman to get over history

A few weeks ago, I was sitting on a panel with a rabid white woman who repeatedly insisted that Black people “get over” history. Like a dog with a bone, she had a point she would not let go. “Slavery happened. What does it have to do with today,” she said, her voice rising.

June 17, 2007

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We will not ‘get over it’ – White woman tells Black woman to get over history

A few weeks ago, I was sitting on a panel with a rabid white woman who repeatedly insisted that Black people “get over” history. Like a dog with a bone, she had a point she would not let go. “Slavery happened. What does it have to do with today,” she said, her voice rising.

June 17, 2007

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Identity bank: research institute launched by College Fund/UNCF has a big job ahead of it – United Negro College Fund

Former Congressman William H. Gray III has to look no further than his battles on the floor of the U.S., House of Representatives over race-specific scholarships in justifying how key the College Fund/United Negro College Fund’s newly created Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute can be to Black America.

June 17, 2007

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Ethnic studies more timely than ever

The most active, the most public, and possibly the most sustained discourse on race and ethnicity in the university has come from those in ethnic studies.

June 16, 2007

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Reaching out, but in which direction? – academic outreach programs – includes list of MESA USA members

When early academic outreach programs were first created and took aim at reaching out to students of color, the initial idea was to inspire and motivate students to prepare for college in a general way.

June 16, 2007

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At war, home and abroad – African Americans during the Second World War

Black Fire: The Making of An American Revolutionary, by Nelson Peery, New Press, New York, NY, 1994, $11.95 paper.

June 15, 2007

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Students Stand Up Against Racially Offensive Parties

A coalition of University of Illinois students and others that formed in the aftermath of a “Tacos and Tequilas” party that offended Mexican American students urged the administration to implement policies that discourage racism. It’s one example of how students are standing up to combat the hostility created by racially insensitive parties being thrown by college students.

February 22, 2007

Asian American Pacific Islander

Overshadowed

Ask the average person what comes to mind at the mention of the Black Panther Party…

February 7, 2007