Tagged - racism
Administration
Letter to the Editor: “UR Racist & Complicit: Sustaining racism at Rochester’s finest institution”
This University is complicit in the dissemination of misinformation intended to harm Palestinian and pro-Palestinian students.
music
Racism in rap
For Black rappers, their art and career are one of the couple of means of escape from the harsh reality of systemic racism.
bias incident report
SA solicits input on race-related trainings for faculty
SA released a survey seeking student input on potentially-mandatory race-related training curricula for faculty.
beauty
Confronting colorism is more complicated than we think
Even now, I remember thinking if such an extreme degree of caution was worth it, if paleness truly was enough to sacrifice the plain, irreplaceable pleasure of sunlight on bare skin.
accountability
The catchphrase “I’m not racist”
Nowadays, it seems like anything you do can be, in some way, shape, or form, “racist.”
Doorley
Rochester summer news round-up
No matter what that patented collegiate-student sense of self-importance may tell us, Rochester keeps bustling even when we go home…
racism
It’s been a year; we need to stop AAPI hate
This atrocity was not the effective trigger to anti-racism and the end of Asian hate at UR that I had hoped it would be.
COVID-19
Letter to the Editor: Medical racism
I believe in vaccines. I believe in the COVID-19 vaccine. Yet, I think people who present allergic reactions should be exempted. People like me.
19th ward
Letter to the Editor: UR’s love-hate relationship with the 19th Ward
Understanding the Ward’s history as a segregated neighborhood helps explain the way it exists today, with racist bridge fears permeating the University campus.
identity
The privilege of white lies for a biracial Asian-American
Although some people can immediately tell that I’m Asian, there’s an undeniable privilege in knowing that passing as white is even an option for me. While I have had moments like last March where I’ve felt fear because of my race, I’ve never been racially discriminated against, and that’s something I don’t take for granted.
