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What are the race-related struggles that African-American students experience throughout their school years? Here’s the story of Tyrone.
The year 2015 escalated many of the tensions that have existed on university and college campuses for a long time. It will be remembered as the year of student activism.
As the affirmative action case comes up before the US Supreme Court again, the question being asked is how much diversity is enough?
Limiting the use of race in higher education admissions policies for institutions can have harmful consequences for the diversity of the student body.
Subtly racist behaviour impacts heavily on the career trajectories of black and minority ethnic academics.
A former activist turned professor says previous student movements may have opened the door for people of color to have greater opportunity but fell short of changing the power structure.
Here’s what black student activists were asking for 50 years ago. So, what changed?
At the root of today’s racial troubles on campuses is the past, when most American universities were intimately connected to slave trade and slavery. Harvard, Princeton, Brown were no exception.
In recent weeks we have been reminded that our university campuses, like everywhere else, are not racism-free spaces. The controversy surrounding poetry professor Barry Spurr serves to remind us that universities…
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