Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Matzeliger was a black inventor who invented a machine to mass-manufacture shoes in 1883; Carver invented hundreds of food products, including peanut butter; and Jemison became the first woman of color to go into space...
...also seems to be erased at the classroom door. When I am sitting in class with others and we're both reading the sourcebook, trying to understand the material, these connections overwhelm racial differences. The shared academic experience, in the pursuit of common knowledge, becomes more important than skin color...
...greatest fear about meeting my first-year roommates was not that they would be dirty, or that they would have too much sex, or that we would not have anything in common, but that they would be racists. My fear was that they would look at the color of my skin and immediately judge me. In our pre-move-in conversations, my racial identity was always at the tip of my tongue. I wanted to scream "I'm black" when they asked me what I looked like, what I liked to read or what my favorite CDs were, if only...
...this campus I hear more calls for diversity in student organizations such as The Crimson or Phillips Brooks House Association. But if individuals really care about diversity--and not just about promoting it--then there must be a greater acknowledgment of minority concerns, not just more faces of color. We don't need more books about race by Harvard academics; we need more truthful conversations about race...
Speaking to the Philadelphia Inquirer, Guinier said, "Though I am the first woman of color to join the tenured faculty, I know that I will not be the last, and this is important to me". In the news release, Dean of the Law School Robert C. Clark said he felt Guinier's appointment would help "attract other top scholars of diverse backgrounds...