Archive: race

• A Conversation on Affirmative Action – Part 3

  By ck439 December 24, 2012

  Note: This is the third blog in a three-blog series. To read Part 1, click here. T read Part 2, click here.  [caption id="attachment_6403" align="aligncenter" width="621"] Harvard Law Review Board of

  Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog Tags: Affirmative Action, class, culture, disenfranchisement, diversity, harvard, race

• A Conversation on Affirmative Action – Part 2

  By ck439 November 28, 2012

  Note: This is the second blog in a three-blog series. To read Part 1, click here.  [caption id="attachment_6393" align="aligncenter" width="607"] Harvard Law Review Board of Editors, Volume 72, 1958-1

  Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog Tags: Affirmative Action, class, culture, diversity, gender, race, women

• A Conversation on Affirmative Action – Part 1

  By ck439 November 22, 2012

  [caption id="attachment_6395" align="aligncenter" width="607"] Harvard Law Review Board of Editors, Volume 29, 1915-1916. Image from the Harvard Law School Library.[/caption] A friend of mine at Harva

  Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog Tags: Affirmative Action, culture, diversity, economics, harvard, increasing returns, Innovation, race

• Riches to Rhymes: The Celeb Kid Rap Game

  By jrw68 September 21, 2011

  For decades now, rap has been the vehicle for driving  a decidedly urban American Dream narrative – a Horatio Algers-esque tale of rags to riches. And, according to Jay-Z, you can be “right next to D

  Categories: 2011, The Gnovis Blog Tags: Bob Dylan, celeb progeny rapper, celeb progeny rappers, celebrity progeny rapper, celebrity progeny rappers, celebrity rappers, Chet Haze, commodity, Drake, Drizzy, entertainment, evolution of rap, hip-hop, history of rap, Jay-Z, Pablo Dylan, race, rap music, rappers, Rich Hil, socioeconomics, Tom Hanks, Tommy Hilfiger, white rapper, white rappers

• Cain's Train: Race and the Tea Party

  By jrw68 June 8, 2011

  The revisionist rhetoric of the Tea Party Movement often works to siphon out those deemed un-American. Some contend that the proliferation and success of the Tea Party Movement has been fueled by what

  Categories: 2011, The Gnovis Blog Tags: african-american, Americana, black, black Tea Party, Cain, Herman Cain, majority, minority, post-racial, race, race and tea party, semiotics, tea party, Tea Party Movement, white anxiety, white panic