Tag: Race
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Lessons for leadership in a riven nation
Former governor Deval Patrick and scholars from various fields wrestle with ways to launch change.
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Helping teachers and principals confront their own racism
Interview with Sarah Fiarman and Tracey Benson, former school principals and HGSE graduates, who co-wrote “Unconscious Bias in Schools: A Developmental Approach to Exploring Race and Racism” to help teachers and school leaders start conversations about race in schools.
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Crowd-sourcing the story of a people
Tiya Miles, a professor of history and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, spoke to the Gazette about the vital role of public history in shaping American cultural understanding.
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A reading list on issues of race
Harvard faculty offer recommendations of books on race everyone should read.
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As the nation shifted from ‘Negro’ to black
Kent Garrett and Jeanne Ellsworth’s “Last Negroes at Harvard” chronicles the lives of the groundbreaking 18 black members of the Class of 1963.
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Can this union be saved?
In a country more fractured than ever, Harvard Professor Danielle Allen, The Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg, and writer Adam Serwer discuss what it will take to bring our democracy back together.
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Learning to talk about race in the workplace
Allison Manswell, author of “Listen In: Crucial Conversations on Race in the Workplace,” spoke at Harvard as part of its Faculty of Arts and Sciences Diversity Dialogue series.
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New faculty: Ellis Monk
Ellis Monk, assistant professor in Harvard’s Department of Sociology, focuses on social inequality through a comparative global lens, with particular attention to race in the United States and Brazil.
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A minority turns on the light
In an interview, Alejandro de la Fuente, Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics, professor of African and African American studies, and director of the Afro-Latin American Research Institute, talks about his organization and the emerging Afro-Latin American social movement.
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Local teachers get an education in addressing hard questions
To help give local educators the capacity to bring thoughtful ideas back to their communities, two students at the Harvard Graduate School of Education recently offered a program on race and equity in education.
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Globe team tells story behind race in Boston stories
Reporters from The Boston Globe visited the Kennedy School to talk about their seven-part series on race relations in the region.
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Race bias seen in breast-cancer screening
A new analysis urges guidelines that account for racial differences in development, aggressiveness of breast cancer.
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‘Am I black or am I white?’
Anthony Peterson dismantled society’s false narrative about race while sharing his own story during an FAS Diversity Dialogue discussion.
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Crime, fear, and loathing
In their book “The Truth about Crime,” Harvard Professors Jean and John Comaroff consider how shifts in attitudes toward criminality have contributed to the fear of other people, to racial violence, and to public distrust of government.
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The everyday response to racism
When someone makes a racially charged comment or joke, how would you respond? Research led by Harvard sociologist Michèle Lamont says your answer may very well depend on the group to which you belong.
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Confronting campus issues from the stage
The Bok Center Players specialize in thought-provoking theater examining race, gender, and identity.
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In anti-lynching plays, a coiled power
Magdalene “Maggie” Zier turned her senior thesis about anti-lynching plays into a live performance at Harvard Law School.
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A bleak, troubling history
Laurence Ralph, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences in the Departments of Anthropology and African and African American Studies, will give a talk on the history of police violence in the United States.
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White and male and seen all over
When portraits on institutional “walls of fame” are almost exclusively of white men, it sends a message that can have psychological and performance effects, two researchers said at a recent Diversity Dialogue.
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The costs of inequality: Faster lives, quicker deaths
For African Americans and Hispanics, damaged neighborhoods undercut education, health, jobs — the keys to overcoming inequality and succeeding.
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Variations on racial tension
Weatherhead Center panelists highlighted striking contrasts in how nations perceive and grapple with racial inequality.
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Being colorblind to race is not the answer
Tufts Associate Professors Keith Maddox and Sam Sommers explore racism and “the colorblind line” at the kickoff of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Diversity Dialogues series.
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Two named MacArthur Fellows
Matthew Desmond, the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, and Beth Stevens, an assistant professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and neuroscientist at Boston Children’s Hospital, have been named MacArthur Fellows.
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How racial issues can be fairly framed
A panel discussion titled “Race and the Media” brought experts from the communications field to examine the influence news sources have when framing racial issues.
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The Ferguson conversation
In the wake of the Ferguson tumult, an Askwith Forum panel examines ways to promote discussions on race, and to craft solutions during a discussion at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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In 1944, Broadway subversion
In 1944, the young and gifted creators of ‘On the Town’ quietly stirred diversity into their groundbreaking musical, Professor Carol Oja recounts in her new book.
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A transformative TV role
Transgender actress Laverne Cox visited campus to discuss her breakout role on the acclaimed Netflix series “Orange Is the New Black.”