The Boston Globe: “For Asian Americans, heart-to-heart talks about painful issues like racism can bridge the generation gap”
As Asian Americans reexamine their nebulous position in the country’s racial hierarchy, in which they are cast either as “model minorities” or “perpetual foreigners,” second-generation children such as Wang are breaking a long tradition of silence with their parents about subjects they never dared to broach before: race, racism, and identity.
The Chronicle of Higher Education: “The Far Right’s College Crusade”
How extremists are infiltrating — and fracturing — campus Republican groups.
BU Today: “Sexism and Racism in Science: How the Coronavirus Pandemic Exposed Everything”
In peer-reviewed piece, 24 researchers argue it’s time for new policies that promote strong mentorship, diversity, and equity amongst scientific workforce.
BU D&I Seeks New Director of Programs
June 28, 2021 — Boston University Diversity & Inclusion (BU D&I) seeks to hire a new Director of Programs to join the team. The Director of Programs will assist BU D&I in aligning the University’s stated values regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion to its policies, practices, structures, climate, and culture. The Director will play an […]
Unpacking the Chauvin Trial: Police Accountability in America
The trial of Derek Chauvin over the murder of George Floyd can be seen as a proxy for the larger history of police in the United States brutalizing and killing Black people disproportionately and often with total impunity. A panel of BU scholars representing the Schools of Law and Public Health discussed the implications of the […]
Black History Month Themes
“The black family has been a topic of study in many disciplines—history, literature, the visual arts and film studies, sociology, anthropology, and social policy. Its representation, identity, and diversity have been reverenced, stereotyped, and vilified from the days of slavery to our own time.”
He Wants to Save Classics From Whiteness. Can the Field Survive?
Dan-el Padilla Peralta thinks classicists should knock ancient Greece and Rome off their pedestal — even if that means destroying their discipline.
Maria Dykema Erb Was a First-Generation Student. Now She’s Here to Help BU’s First-Gens
Newbury Center inaugural director: “I want to be the person I needed back then.”
Biden’s restoring what Trump stole from LGBTQ Americans
“In the first hours and days of the Biden administration, something precious has been returned to us. That invaluable thing that has been restored to LGBTQ Americans — and many others — is hope.”
What President Biden’s LGBTQ Executive Order Does and Doesn’t Do
“It is now the policy of this administration that ‘[e]very person should be treated with respect and dignity and should be able to live without fear, no matter who they are or whom they love.'”