diversity

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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

  State legislatures and national political figures are framing an academic critique of racism as an anti-American ideology. Historians weigh in.

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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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• 3/27/2020
  

  DC Comics and the American Dilemma of Race

  by Patrick L. Hamilton and Allan W. Austin

  Superhero popular culture has always been embedded within American racial attitudes, reflecting and even contributing to them in ways that reveal goodwill is not sufficient, in and of itself, to fix our problems.

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• SOURCE: AHA Perspectives on History
  12/2/19
  

  James Grossman Writes Article on Career Diversity: "Revising Revisited: Words Matter When It Comes to Career Diversity"

  by James Grossman

  Historians need to write and speak carefully. A single word or phrase, a particularly evocative metaphor, can undermine a nuanced argument pointing in a very different direction.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  10-15-18
  

  The Dawn of Television Promised Diversity. Here’s Why We Got “Leave It to Beaver” Instead.

  Using original archival research and FBI blacklist documents, a new book pieces together the intersectional narratives that never made it on air.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  3-28-18
  

  Stanford’s Priya Satia says "The Whitesplaining of History Is Over”

  “The struggle to diversify the academy remains an uphill battle; institutional biases are deeply ingrained, and change evokes nostalgia for times past."