In The News: Department of Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies
What sort of staying power does it take for a protest movement to be judged a success?
What sort of staying power does it take for a protest movement to be judged a success?
A University of Nevada, Las Vegas task force has responded to racial unrest following the death of a man in police custody in Minnesota with recommendations to address safety, equity and inclusion among Black students and employees.
A University of Nevada, Las Vegas task force has responded to racial unrest following the death of a man in police custody in Minnesota with recommendations to address safety, equity and inclusion among Black students and employees.
When slavery ended, a new era rose. This period would shape the United State for years to come; it was called the Reconstruction era and Jim Crow.
Has the media highlighted instances of civil disobedience to delegitimize the Black Lives Matter movement?
A new UNLV task force has released recommendations for addressing safety, equity and inclusion among Black students and employees.
Sometimes, people have a hard time trying to peg the protest politics of Carla Gericke.
Racial tensions have been simmering since the beginning of the United States.
Between July 8th and July 13th, I had been following the updates because so many of my queer fandom friends were posting hopes, wishes and fears regarding the disappearance of Naya Rivera. Amid the brutal deaths of Vanessa Guillen, Breonna Taylor, and the continued persecution of undocumented immigrant children and adults, I’ve grown weary of grieving the loss of young women of color. A celebrity death, in context, serves as a reminder of the numbing reality that the world expects much of women of color in their life and death, their celebrity and the context of their death giving weight to the energy a greater public exercises in wanting more for them/us.
UNLV has created what it's calling the Anti-Black Racism Task Force.