Some Americans insist that we’re living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America–it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues, racist ideas have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit….
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Intersectionality Explored at Boise State
SIC 301 INTERSECTIONALITY AND SPORT (3-0-3)(F/S). Investigates sport culture, and particularly evaluations of race, class, gender, nationalism and other markers of identity, through the lens of intersectionality. PREREQ: ENGL 102. Read more; https://registrar.boisestate.edu/undergraduate/course-catalog/sic/
Exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality
From the New Yorker: In more than twenty years of running diversity-training and cultural-competency workshops for American companies, the academic and educator Robin DiAngelo has noticed that white people are sensationally, histrionically bad at discussing racism. Like waves on sand, their reactions form predictable patterns: they will insist that they “were taught to treat everyone…
Human Rights Collective 