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Class on Black Lives Matter examines ideas behind the slogan
The class #BlackLivesMatter in Media and Popular Culture — offered this spring — is one of very few like it in the country.
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Research team tracks complex web of monetary sanctions in 9 states
Professor of sociology, Alexes Harris, leads a team of researchers at nine universities who are exploring the role of monetary sanctions in the criminal justice system.
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When is cultural appropriation OK? Never, say some Native Americans
Assistant Professor of Art History and Curator of Northwest Native American Art at the Burke Museum, Kathyrn Bunn-Marcuse, offered some choice words on cultural appropriation of native art.
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Righting history: Every month is Black History Month at BlackPast.org
UW professor Quintard Taylor is blowing students’ minds in class and with his website devoted to black history.
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Race and Capitalism receive year-long investigation through $175,000 Sawyer Seminar Grant
The interplay of race and capitalism will be the focus of a year-long investigation by UW scholars thanks to a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Why white liberals need to figure out how to talk about race
Why is race so hard to discuss? Ralina Joseph, founding director of the UW’s Center for Communication, Difference, and Equity, talked with KUOW about coded racial language. -
One of NASA’s newest missions to asteroids is being led by a female astrophysicist
NASA began the new year by announcing two new missions to explore asteroids, the oldest parts of our solar system. A recent UW study on STEM fields is referenced.