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Faust’s work focuses on the spread of ideas and the maintenance of power. She specializes in Southern intellectuals, like James Henry Hammond, Josiah C. Nott and Edmund Ruffin, who embraced slavery and later secession. These are complex characters whose racism was detestable, but who also fought hard to spread occasionally live-saving ideas: Nott promoted the fight against the mosquito to limit malaria, and Ruffin was an agronomist who advocated agricultural lime...
...sociological study in The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, self-segregation is often used as a “defense mechanism to insulate black students from the harsh realities of institutional racism” at predominantly white universities. Indeed, for all minority groups, the perception of racism can lead students to create support groups and cultural organizations where they can feel free from these biases...
...Jessica G. Ranucci ’10, a member of the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM), said that since the most recent forum on the issue in December, the racism against Latinos “is actually getting progressively worse...
Director of Communications Robert Mitchell did not comment specifically on the allegations of racism, but said that “We’re just going to have to wait until the committee has done its investigation...
...workers, union members, and students said they plan to continue publicizing their efforts. They will hold a rally for the biology lab workers outside the Holyoke Center on April 4. Their demands will include an end to lay-offs, an independent investigation into racism, and no English-only policies...