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Race at the Top: Asian Americans and Whites in Pursuit of the American Dream in Suburban Schools

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The American suburb conjures an image of picturesque privilege: manicured lawns, quiet streets, and—most important to parents—high-quality schools. These elite enclaves are also historically white, allowing many white Americans to safeguard their privileges by using public schools to help their children enter top colleges. That’s changing, however, as Asian American professionals increasingly move into wealthy suburban areas to give their kids that same leg up for their college applications and future careers.

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Racial Battle Fatigue in Faculty: Perspectives and Lessons from Higher Education

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Editors Nicholas D. Hartlep and Daisy Ball will discuss their new book, Racial Battle Fatigue in Faculty which examines the challenges faced by diverse faculty members in colleges and universities. Highlighting the experiences of faculty of color in higher education across a range of institutional types, chapter authors employ an autoethnographic approach to the telling of their stories.

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Four American Moslem Ladies’: Racial and Gendered Insurgencies in Early American Islam

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This talk investigates the history of the first known photograph of Muslim women in the U.S. Taken in 1923, the photo features four African American Muslim women in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago—at the time known as the “Black Metropolis”—who had converted to Islam through the Ahmadiyya movement, a South Asia-based missionary sect. Through an … Read more