The organizers of this year’s meeting of the American Anthropological Association knew that the presidential election would provide plenty of fodder for scholarly discussions, regardless of whether Mitt Romney or Barack Obama won.
Read more in The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/article/RacismDemographobia-/135802/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
During opening statements in the current trial over how Texas finances its public schools, a lawyer for the state expressed what many were already thinking.
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/16/us/defining-adequate-in-texas-school-financing.html?ref=education
The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled, 8 to 7, on Thursday that Michigan’s voter-approved 2006 ban on affirmative action was unconstitutional.
DOES the re-election of the first black president mean the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is unnecessary and perhaps unconstitutional? The Supreme Court’s decision last week to consider a constitutional challenge to a key section of the act suggests that a perverse outcome of the 2012 campaign may be that President Obama’s victory spells doom
Throughout the presidential campaign, pundits zeroed in on Latino voters: why President Obama might lose them, how Mitt Romney could woo them, whether they would even vote this year. In the end, the turnout set records, and Latinos overwhelmingly favored Obama. What never changed was the tendency to discuss Latino
The former nominee says in a phone call to donors that the president gave ‘a lot of stuff’ to African Americans, Latinos and young people during his first term in order to secure their votes.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-romney-donors-20121115,0,1719033.story
Saying that he and his team still felt “troubled” by his loss to President Obama, Mitt Romney on Wednesday attributed his defeat in part to what he called big policy “gifts” that the president had bestowed on loyal Democratic constituencies, including young voters, African-Americans and Hispanics.
Read more in The New York Times: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/14/romney-blames-loss-on-obamas-gifts-to-minorities-and-young-voters/?hp
With the U.S. Supreme Court considering a case on the consideration of race and ethnicity in admissions decisions, studies continue to appear to shed light on the issues.
A female professor at the University of Southern California has filed a federal discrimination complaint against the institution, saying that the decision this year to deny her tenure fits a longstanding pattern in the university’s humanities and social-sciences departments of promoting white men at much higher rates than women and members of minority groups.
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Journalist and gay activist Dan Savage often writes about the urban archipelago — the American cities that are comfortable, safe islands for gays and lesbians set amid a vast sea of countryside where being openly homosexual remains a chancy, even dangerous, proposition. However, after an election in which four more states approved same-sex marriage, perhaps