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Jan 20, 2019 · However, cultural institutions stand apart from most other institutions in their ability to educate and inspire with the richness of diversity. Nothing captures the inspirational power of cultural representation more than the viral photos of Parker Curry, the little girl who stood transfixed at Mrs Obama’s portrait in the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery early last year.
Jun 15, 2024 · A new analysis suggests that many Black Americans believe the racial bias in U.S. institutions is not merely a matter of passive negligence; it is the result of intentional design. Specifically, large majorities describe the prison (74%), political (67%) and economic (65%) systems in the U.S., among others, as having been designed to hold Black people back, either a great deal or a fair amount.
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Therefore, it is incumbent of African Americans to work with cultural institutions to preserve their family photography, documents, and objects. While African Americans have few traditions of giving material to museums, it is crucial that more of the black past make it into American cultural repositories.
Dec 20, 2021 · Systemic racism is a scientifically tractable phenomenon, urgent for cognitive scientists to address. This tutorial reviews the built-in systems that undermine life opportunities and outcomes by racial category, with a focus on challenges to Black Americans. From American colonial history, explicit practices and policies reinforced disadvantage across all domains of life, beginning with ...
- Definitions of “Multiculturalism”
- Deconstructing Race
- Possible Approaches
- A Diverse Community
A working definition of multiculturalism begins with the recognition that our nation’s cultural heritage does not begin and end with the intellectual and aesthetic products of Western Europe. Multiculturalism rejects the model of cultural assimilation and social conformity which, within the context of our schools, has often relegated African Americ...
The quest for a unified theoretical framework and approach to the study of race and diversity has been elusive. For nearly half a century, we have pursued the goal of diversity in higher education, with at best mixed and uneven results. In the 1950s and early 1960s, liberal educators declared proudly that they were committed to the goal of a “color...
We must be honest and rigorous in our criticisms of such programs. But we must also criticize those who have concluded that multicultural studies have no relevance to higher education. On the contrary—the criteria for educational excellence must have at its core a truly multicultural vision and definition. We must have African-American studies prog...
Compounding the challenges for the study of the black experience is the fact that the social composition of the African-American community itself has changed sharply since the 1960s. One cannot really speak about a “common racial experience” which parallels the universal opposition blacks felt when confronted by legal racial segregation. Moreover, ...
Nov 16, 2022 · While diversity has increased across the field overall, so far only 20% of the workforce at US museums is non-white. Still, the Mellon Foundation’s survey found that 40% of new hires and staff ...
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Nov 4, 2021 · Instead, the cause was, very simply, white racism. “White Society is deeply implicated in the ghetto,” the report declared. “White institutions created it, white institutions maintain it ...
