Race

The state must take my rights, and take everyone’s rights. seriously. The state cannot respect my right to avoid torture if it tortures others, even if the others are terrorists.

For whatever reason, one week ago today, Sheldon found himself on 122nd Street and Broadway, two blocks north of our campus and even closer to neighboring academic institutions. That’s where the incident happened, at 8:50 on an otherwise typical Friday evening.

With last week’s news that a prominent black professor was found guilty of academic plagiarism, Teachers College’s handling of race issues was thrust into the spotlight—and under the microscope—for the second time this year. As the school launches a new round of soul-searching, both students and faculty have said they feel that the TC administration does not adequately address or facilitate discussions about race issues.

University President Lee Bollinger teamed up with professors to explore an issue at the heart of much recent campus debate titled “The Language of Race in America” on Wednesday night in Low Library.

During last semester’s hunger strike, one of the strikers called one of his fellow students “white.” While to this student and some others this was a shocking expression of racism and insensitivity, I understood that the striker was trying to say that someone who is white might have different perspectives on the hunger strike and issues of race and racism due to white privilege.

When applying for a column in the Spectator, I jokingly told my friends that I was thinking of naming it “Race Man.” I thought this funny because of its multiple layers of signification.

A recent upsurge in the white population of New York City, reflected in statistics released by the U.S. Census Bureau, signifies what some analysts are calling the end of white flight.

Ethnic studies strives for praxis, the Aristotelian marriage of theory and action.