by lindaoppenheim | Jun 30, 2015 | Opinion
Anna Holmes draws on her experience growing up biracial in America to discuss self-identification and other people’s perceptions. For a fictionalized take on the subject, read Mat Johnson’s Loving Day. How do you identify people you see? Try PBS’...
by lindaoppenheim | May 13, 2015 | Opinion, Poll
Fairleigh Dickinson University’s PublicMind finds that race is a determining factor in attitudes toward the police and other institutions, including prosecutors and the availability of competent legal assistance for New Jersey residents. Three quarters of whites (75%)...
by lindaoppenheim | May 5, 2015 | Documents
Domestic students of color attending the University of Illinois during 2011- 2012 were surveyed about their experiences of microaggressions on campus. Of the 4800 who participated,”[t]hirty-nine percent (39%) of the students of color who responded to the survey...
by lindaoppenheim | Apr 30, 2015 | Continuing Conversations, Opinion
In the Baltimore Sun, Julia Blount has an article that will be discussed on Monday, May 4, at 7 p.m. at the monthly forum, Continuing Conversations on Race and White Privilege at the Princeton Public Library, third floor. She writes: I am not asking you to condone or...
by lindaoppenheim | Apr 1, 2015 | Article
“Months before Starbucks’s much-derided “Race Together” initiative, [Vernicia Colon] ran the Mix Coffeehaus, a South Bronx pop-up shop that used the act of ordering coffee to get customers to explore their own racial identity.”
