The Princess and the Frog
Disney’s The Princess and the Frog depicts the long awaited first African American princess in Disney’s mainstream filmmaking. Many other racial groups have been represented thus far, there have been princesses of native american, asian, and even middle eastern descent…
The Supreme Court and Race
In an article published yesterday on SCOTUSblog.com, Professor Michael J. Klarman, from Harvard Law School, outlines the Supreme Court’s impact on race relations for the last fifty years, from Brown vs. Board of Education to Parents Involved. It is an…
Ten Lessons for Talking About Racial Equity in the Age of Obama
To date, commentators continue to push the notion that we are living in a “post-racial” nation, i.e., because the United States elected an African American President, racial injustice and inequity have been erased and no longer exist. In response to…
Are You a Racist?
In an odd commercial, some try to link health care reform to racism. According to the commercial, some on the Left claim it is racist to oppose health care reform. In the commercial a series of actors, who pretend to…
Shades of Prejudice
Here is an interesting NY Times Op-Ed piece titled the “Shades of Prejudice” which highlights many of the Race Equity Project’s topics of unconscious bias and framing. The writer starts off with the recent controversial comments by Senate majority leader…
Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
A 1988 essay, “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack,” by Peggy McIntosh of the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women, is worth revisiting 20+ years later as ‘colorblindness’ theories of race continue to threaten meaningful efforts to achieve racial…
