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Terror on the Harvard Quad

May 21, 2007 in Gawker, Harvard, Obamas, Percival Everett, Ralph Ellison, college, education, race, racism, social capital, stereotypes | 1 comment

I didn’t want my students from Racial Passing to feel left out of the end of semester postings. We’ve just finished reading Percival Everett’s Erasure, so here is one for you– from Gawker, by way of Racialicious: “Blacks Terrorize Harvard Students”:

Last weekend, on the bucolic Quad at Harvard University–typically, the site of a casual game of Ultimate, or perhaps an afternoon reading of some Shakespearean sonnets before English class-an unusual and, to some, frightening scene was played out. There were people throwing things! And running! And jumping! And most scary of all, every single one of them was black. So the Harvard students watching from their dormitory windows, growing increasingly agitated at the sights below, did what any normal, white Harvard student would do when they saw a large, seemingly unruly group of black people: They called the cops! Read the rest of this entry »

more education = more abuse?

May 1, 2007 in education, gender violence, race | 1 comment

I just caught this link over at Racialicious, and followed it over to The Louisana Weekly, where Charreah Jackson has an article titled “Education equals higher chance of abuse for black women.” In the article, Jackson cites this quite startling statistic, that black women with college degrees are “145 times more likely to suffer sexual, domestic or other abuse than those who did not finish high school, according to a recent study.” It continues:

One reason offered for the major increase of the likelihood of college-educated Black women being abused sexually, among others, is the backlash theory. It states that as women become more successful outside of the home, men become abusive due to resentment of their move outside of the traditional roles of women.

The article is quite interesting, and also talks a bit more about how the statistics were collected, as well as also discussing how part of the problem is linked to ways in which abuse is not discussable in many black households. Check it out!