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Growing Up With Hunters: An Insider's Perspective, Sudie Hofmann
Growing Up With Hunters: An Insider's Perspective, Sudie Hofmann
Human Relations and Multicultural Education Faculty Publications
Many of us who care about animals go about our lives while immersed in a world that is either not aligned with, or is even openly hostile to, our respect for animals. Sudie Hofmann is one of many people who grew up in a family that didn’t share her respect and compassion for animals. She shares her experience of what it’s like to grow up in a family of hunters.
What Is The Interracial Black And White Trajectory In America?, Luke S. Tripp
What Is The Interracial Black And White Trajectory In America?, Luke S. Tripp
Ethnic and Women's Studies Working Papers
Martin Luther King envisioned a beloved integrated community of interracial harmony based on racial equality and mutual respect, a society in which race would be irrelevant, and one in which we all would share the resources of the nation based on humanitarian values. Are we moving toward that goal? How can we best measure progress toward it? I will argue that King’s vision of racial equality remains elusive and provide factual evidence that shows that the racial inequality gap, which has persisted over the last fifty years, has widen in key domains of social life. First, we will examine the …
Assessment Of Student Learning In Racial Issues Courses, Spring Semester 2013, Luke S. Tripp
Assessment Of Student Learning In Racial Issues Courses, Spring Semester 2013, Luke S. Tripp
Ethnic and Women's Studies Working Papers
In the Fall Semester 2000, St. Cloud State University implemented mandatory racial issues courses that were designed to help students understand and reflect on race relations in the USA. To what extent are students learning what we attempt to teach them about race relations? This is the central question in this assessment report.
Rethinking Cinco De Mayo, Sudie Hofmann
Rethinking Cinco De Mayo, Sudie Hofmann
Human Relations and Multicultural Education Faculty Publications
[Personal narrative describing development of an anti-oppressive curriculum for Cinco de Mayo in a teacher education course.]
Racism And Public Education, Luke S. Tripp
Racism And Public Education, Luke S. Tripp
Ethnic and Women's Studies Working Papers
This essay argues that the U.S. public school system is structured along racial and social class lines determined by powerful political and economic forces, and that there is a racial and class tracking system in public education that reproduces the race and class structure of the society. Further, it describes how schools play a principal role in perpetuating ideological racism through a social studies curriculum that is designed to promote white supremacy by distorting American history in such a way that it portrays whites as agents of progress and builders of civilizations and Blacks as insignificant objects or deficient characters.
Race, Merit, And College Admissions, Luke S. Tripp
Race, Merit, And College Admissions, Luke S. Tripp
Ethnic and Women's Studies Working Papers
Is it fair to include race in the criteria for admission to highly selective colleges and universities so that Blacks will be present in greater numbers on college and university campuses? This is a central question in the affirmative-action controversy. To address this key question we will focus on prestigious institutions of higher education because that is where affirmative action policies are most controversial. Therefore, we will consider some of the most compelling arguments of opponents and proponents of affirmative action programs and policies at prestigious colleges and universities.
Remembering Tallahassee, Sudie Hofmann
Remembering Tallahassee, Sudie Hofmann
Human Relations and Multicultural Education Faculty Publications
[Personal narrative of an active approach to confronting public attitudes about Native American stereotypes inherent in college athletic team names.]
Racial Ideological Warfare: Iq As A Weapon, Luke S. Tripp
Racial Ideological Warfare: Iq As A Weapon, Luke S. Tripp
Ethnic and Women's Studies Working Papers
Racial ideological warfare continues in America. This form of warfare is waged primarily against Black people. A major force prosecuting this war is an array of white academics, scholars, intellectuals, and social scientists (Coughlin, 1995; Heller, 1994). Their major premise is that Black people are mentally inferior to all other racial groups, especially the white race. This is the main thrust of The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life by Herrnstein and Murray which was ranked 5th on the New York Times Best Seller List on December 25, 1994. Its widespread popularity and appeal, and the accelerated …
Racial Attitudes Of Black Students During The Reagan Era, Luke S. Tripp
Racial Attitudes Of Black Students During The Reagan Era, Luke S. Tripp
Ethnic and Women's Studies Working Papers
The 1980s was a period when Blacks experienced setbacks and reversals in various areas of social life. Did the setbacks cause Blacks to turn away from whites? This is the question that is addressed in this study of the racial attitudes of Black college students. The purpose of this research is to describe the attitudes of Black students toward Whites during the Reagan era and compare their attitudes with the attitudes of the general Black population. To provide a background to interpret our findings, we will review the major political and economic events of the 1980s or the Reagan years. …
Black Working Class Radicalism In Detroit, 1960-1970, Luke Tripp
Black Working Class Radicalism In Detroit, 1960-1970, Luke Tripp
Ethnic and Women's Studies Working Papers
This research examines and explores the cultural aspects of radicalism among Black automobile workers in Detroit in the 1960s from the vantage point of autobiographical experience and a Marxian framework. It considers some of the cultural factors that accounted for the emergence of a revolutionary Black workers' organization. Among those factors were the lifestyles of the factory workers and the roles that kinship and friendship played in building a radical organization. Furthermore, it discusses particular ideas, values, and beliefs that are prevalent in Black culture which dispose Black workers more toward radicalism than their White counterparts. It also examines cultural …