Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Gloria Jean Watkins (September 25, 1952 – December 15, 2021), better known by her pen name bell hooks (stylized in lowercase), [1] was an American author, theorist, educator, and social critic who was a Distinguished Professor in Residence at Berea College. [2]
John Uzo Ogbu (May 9, 1939 – August 20, 2003) was a Nigerian-American anthropologist and professor known for his theories on observed phenomena involving race and intelligence, especially how race and ethnic differences played out in educational and economic achievement. [1]
Richard D. Alba (born December 22, 1942) is an American sociologist, who was a Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center, CUNY [1] and at the Sociology Department at the University at Albany, SUNY, [2] where he founded the University at Albany’s Center for Social and Demographic Analysis (CSDA). [3]
Stuart Henry McPhail Hall (3 February 1932 – 10 February 2014) was a Jamaican-born British Marxist sociologist, cultural theorist, and political activist.Hall — along with Richard Hoggart and Raymond Williams — was one of the founding figures of the school of thought known as British Cultural Studies or the Birmingham School of Cultural Studies.
For Religion and Culture Sapienza University of Rome: Il futuro è passato qui: Italian: In here the future is already become past / The future has been here / The future has stopped by here Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies: Excellentiam ut disciplinam / L'eccellenza come disciplina: Latin/Italian Excellence as discipline University of Bologna
Inspire others with these powerful Black History Month quotes. Revisit famous words by Black leaders and icons such as MLK, James Baldwin, and Michelle Obama.
The cultural mulatto is a concept introduced by Trey Ellis in his 1989 essay "The New Black Aesthetic". While the term "mulatto" typically refers to a person of mixed black and white ancestry, a cultural mulatto is defined by Ellis as a black person who is highly educated and usually a part of the middle or upper-middle class, and therefore assimilates easily into traditionally white environments.
Oppositional culture, also known as the "blocked opportunities framework" or the "caste theory of education", is a term most commonly used in studying the sociology of education to explain racial disparities in educational achievement, particularly between white and black Americans.