multiculturalism

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• 12/11/2022
  

  Immigrant Education in America is a Series of Stories of Courage

  by Jessica Lander

  One in four K-12 students today is an immigrant or a child of immigrants. A high school history teacher in an immigrant-serving school argues that we need to remember the examples of past educators who defied law and prejudice to make schools places where immigrants became Americans. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  10/25/2021
  

  Clarifying the Census Bureau's Accounting of "White" Identity Puts Demographic Change in Perspective

  by Morris Levy, Richard Alba and Dowell Myers

  The 2020 Census seemed to show the white population was in freefall. But few questioned whether differences between the 2010 and 2020 censuses reflected real demographic change or simply statistical noise as the the Census makes incomplete progress toward accounting for multiracial identity.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/24/2021
  

  What the ‘Majority Minority’ Shift Really Means for America

  by Justin Gest

  "Through a historical lens, being white in America today is like belonging to a once-exclusive social club that had to loosen its membership criteria to stay afloat."

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  8/20/2021
  

  Both the Right and Left Need to Remember Demography is Not Destiny

  by Adam Serwer

  The 2020 Census has fueled optimism on the left and panic on the right about American demographics. But past periods of ethnic change have shown the fluidity of racial categories defies expectations.

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• SOURCE: Commonweal
  8/17/2021
  

  Scrapping the Color Code: A Post-Racial America is Inevitable

  by Jim Sleeper

  The 2020 Census is showing that whiteness is no longer the civic and cultural norm, but also that bureacratic color-coding can't support a version of civic Americanism that can stand up to a growing white backlash. 

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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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• 7/18/2021
  

  Can Sports Realize Frederick Douglass's Ideal of the Composite Nation?

  by Walter G. Moss

  From Jackie Robinson to Simone Biles and Shohei Otani, sports have been like the point of a knife piercing myths of white supremacy. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  7/8/2021
  

  What Euro 2020 Has Revealed About Englishness

  Sporting teams are one of the few officially English, as opposed to British, institutions. The national team's multiracial composition and embrace of social and political causes may be advancing a more inclusive form of Englishness. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2/9/2021
  

  France’s New Public Enemy: America’s Woke Left

  A body of American critical theory about the nexus of difference and power has proved threatening to a French intellectual elite that is historically invested in the nation's formally color-blind republican traditions even as ethnic and religious diversity exposes the gaps in those traditions. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/16/2020
  

  Liberals Envisioned a Multiracial Coalition. Voters of Color Had Other Ideas

  Since the dawn of the 21st century, it has become commonplace for party leaders to talk of a rising demographic tide that is destined to lift the Democrats to dominance. The party should look at the defeat of California's affirmative action referendum as a caution that things won't be so simple. 

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  11/13/2020
  

  Princeton History Professor Says Biden Won With Unstable Democratic Coalition

  Historian Matt Karp argues that the Democratic Party risks future defeat if it does not develop a strong economic populist message that appeals to Black and Latino voters. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  11/6/2020
  

  Trump’s Presidency May Be Over. The Effects of Trumpism on Campus are Not

  The Trump presidency has raised issues about the extent of racial resentment in White America, the significance of identity politics, and the place of intellectual discovery and academic research in American life that are a long way from resolution. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  11/5/2020
  

  Although Now Required by California Law, Ethnic Studies Courses Likely to be Met with Resistance

  by Nolan L. Cabrera

  A scholar who studies racial dynamics on college campuses, argues the benefits of required ethnic studie courses outweigh their liabilities.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  10/22/2020
  

  Is It Time for All Students to Take Ethnic Studies?

  The position of ethnic studies in university curricula reflects changing intellectual currents but also longstanding battles over resources and power in higher education institutions. 

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• SOURCE: Made by History at The Washington Post
  10/11/2020
  

  Ethnic Studies Can't Make Up for Whitewashed History in Classrooms

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  "American history is ethnic studies. You simply can’t understand the United States without addressing its component races, ethnicities and religions. Sadly, the recent drive for ethnic studies demonstrates just how far we are from that ideal."

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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: 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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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  9/10/2020
  

  The Wages of Whiteness (Review Essay)

  Hari Kunzru's review essay examines the current vogue for white antiracism (and antiracist training) through the history of whiteness as a political and academic concept, concluding that many  of the most popular books and multicultural pieties strip the idea of its structural elements and reduce it to a question of personal purification. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  8/25/2020
  

  ‘Please Don’t Convert to Whiteness’: Johann N. Neem on Current Trends in Racism and Antiracism

  Historian Johann N. Neem, an immigrant from India, decries the white supremacy unleashed by Trump but questions whether trendy antiracism discourse is encouraging white progressives to uphold the ideal of an America open to all in an interview.