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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
11/10/2022
Miami Was Once a Model for Diversity Training—But it was Always Controversial
by Catherine Mas
Beginning in the 1970s, Miami-Dade County led the way in exploring ways to train health and human services professionals to interact with the area's diverse populations with respect and effective communication. The conflicts exploited by the "Stop WOKE" Act date back to this period.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
10/4/2022
Corporate America Copied the NFL's "Rooney Rule"—But Also its Lack of Enforcement
The NFL teams' agreement to interview minority candidates for coaching jobs always had a fault: nothing happened to teams who abused the process and interviewed candidates with no intention of hiring them.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
9/21/2022
The Defeat of Identity Politics
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Philosopher Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò argues that the rhetoric of diversity has allowed an "elite capture" of racial justice movements that strips those movements of the impulse to transform society. Historian Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor reviews his new book of essays.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
9/2/2022
Legal Scholar: "Diversity" a Weak Substitute for Justice, Opened Door to SCOTUS Killing Affirmative Action
by Richard Thompson Ford
The cause of equality was dealt a fatal blow when courts and colleges shifted the focus of affirmative action from fighting racism to promoting diversity, argues legal scholar Richard Thompson Ford.
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SOURCE: New York Times
10/13/2021
Ryan Russell: Jon Gruden Emails Should Have Shocked Me. They Didn't
"The long delay in disclosing these emails, coupled with their conversational nature, suggests that others in the N.F.L. are, at best, tolerant of these divisive views. At worst, they share them."
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
10/1/2021
New "Wonder Years" Revives a 1970s Tactic for Diversifying TV. Will it Work?
by Kate L. Flach
The technique of "racial inversion" was intended in the 1970s to encourage white viewers to empathize with Black characters. Today, as then, the results show that TV alone can't bridge the nation's racial divisions.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
7/26/2021
Can Affirmative Action Survive the Supreme Court?
by Nicholas Lemann
The moderate Republican appointee has always served as the Justice to protect modest versions of affirmative action. What will happen in a pending case now that such Justices are gone from the court? The historical trajectory of supposedly meritocratic admissions offers clues.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
6/8/2021
Social Fissures have Made Building a Broad Liberal Coalition Hard for 50 Years
by Steven M. Gillon
Hostility toward the welfare state, frequently driven by the idea that government programs unfairly benefit minorities at the expense of whites, has prevented the Democratic party from consolidating a political majority for decades. Worshipping fallen heroes like Robert Kennedy obscures the political work needed to build and keep a coalition.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
5/24/2021
A University Suspended Diversity Courses Because of an Incident That Almost Certainly Didn’t Happen
An incident in which a conservative student was allegedly subjected to ideological bullying and harassment was used as a pretext to cancel a set of courses addressing diversity issues at Boise State University. An outside law firm's investigation found no evidence to substantiate the description of the incident.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
1/26/2021
Race on Campus: The Mental Burden of Minority Professors
Fernanda Zamudio-Suaréz writes about mental health challenges facing minority faculty at predominantly white institutions, quoting historians Marcia Chatelain and Katrina Phillips.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
10/13/2020
Higher Ed’s Shameful Silence on Diversity
by Hasan Kwame Jeffries
Right-wing diatribes about diversity training often ended with a call for Trump to issue an executive order banning federal agencies from holding them. So it was not unexpected when, on September 22, Trump signed an executive order forbidding diversity training within the government.
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SOURCE: Washington Monthly
10/5/2020
Princeton, Betsy DeVos, And The Need For a Real Debate About Race
by Jonathan Zimmerman
Although the Department of Education investigation of Princeton is likely in bad faith, Jonathan Zimmerman contends that Princeton's self-flagellation about its institutional racism reflects a rising orthodoxy, not a deep debate about how the university operates.
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SOURCE: Association of University Presses
10/8/2020
AUPresses Statement on US Executive Order on Combatting Race and Sex Stereotyping
The international association of scholarly publishers calls the Trump adminstration's attacks on critical race theory and antiracism training a "chilling and frankly un-American" attack on intellectual inquiry.
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SOURCE: Daily Iowan
10/5/2020
University of Iowa Will Halt Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Training After White House Executive Order
The university's statement claimed in essence that the threat of losing federal grants and contracts could not be ignored.
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9/8/2020
The "Critical Race Theory" Controversy Continues
The appointment of right-wing activist Christopher Rufo to the board of Florida's public New College is a significant escalation of the war on teaching and research on race, gender and sexuality.
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SOURCE: USA Today
8/11/2020
Kamala Harris Vice Presidential Pick Launches Biden Towards A Cabinet That Looks Like America
by Lindsay M. Chervinsky
Joe Biden's selection of former rival Kamala Harris suggests he will follow other successful presidencies and appoint a cabinet that brings different views to policy discussions.
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
5/22/2020
From Associate to Full Professor
by Keisha N. Blain
Although securing tenure and tenure-track jobs has received great attention lately, it is important that historians from underrepresented groups successfully pursue promotion to full professorship in their institutions to diversify leadership in the profession.
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SOURCE: NBC News
5/25/2020
The Coronavirus Is Threatening Diversity In Academia
As budgets are stricken and mass layoffs become routine, scholars of all levels are fighting back to make sure diversity in academia won’t become collateral damage in the pandemic.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
4/17/2020
Americans Must Embrace Hope, Not Fear
by Kevin M. Schultz
Amid covid-19, it’s time to come together and recognize that diversity is an asset.
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SOURCE: New York Times
3/30/2020
Penguin Classics and Others Work to Diversify Offerings From the Canon
Across the industry, publishers are releasing titles by authors who were previously marginalized or entirely lost to history.
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