Anyone concerned about industrial-scale political indoctrination on American college campuses was given reason for hope this past spring when, in the pages of The Chronicle of Higher Education, Vanderbilt University … Continue reading “No, Vanderbilt Isn’t Governed By “Principled Neutrality””
The University of Virginia is facing a choice of historic significance: namely, whether to embrace admissions policies based on our colorblind Constitution or to engage in mass resistance to the … Continue reading “An Open Letter to UVA President James E. Ryan”
Currently, nine states prohibit colleges and universities from practicing race-conscious admissions. That number may soon become ten if a new bill in the North Carolina legislature is successfully adopted. Public … Continue reading ““We Cannot Fight Fire with Fire”: Efforts to Ban Race-Based College Admissions”
When the University of Chicago English Department announced over the summer that, in response to the protests after the death of George Floyd, they would only admit graduate students willing … Continue reading “The BlackLivesMattering of Higher Ed: Some Notes from the Field”
Editor’s note: Part I of The New Racism can be read here. The best way to grasp how sociology has managed to make color-blind racism (CBR) seem believable is to … Continue reading “The New Racism, Part II: The Sociologist’s Toolkit: Justifying Racism Through Language”
Like most Americans, I have always assumed that color blindness is our ideal. Not any more: color blindness is now become the new racism. So much for a 70-year struggle … Continue reading “The New Racism, Part I: How ‘Race and Ethnic Studies’ Made Color Blindness a Bad Thing”