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The split is emblematic of a core truth of the American public education system: Gaps in access to school resources fall along racial and socioeconomic lines, and that gap has been magnified during virtual schooling, write Nicole Gaudiano and Maya King.Non-white school districts receive an average of $23 billion less than predominantly white...
ITHACA, N.Y.(WENY)-- Pastor Terrance King and Trustee Nick Sledziona at St. James AME Zion Church in Ithaca are working with archaeologists and Professor Gerard Aching from Cornell University to determine if a secret tunnel is located beneath the church. Recently a research team led by professor Aching used a ground-penetrating radar scanner to...
...Quaker Oats announced in June that it would drop Aunt Jemima from syrup and pancake packages, responding to criticism that the character’s origins were based the “mammy,” a black woman content to serve her white masters. Quaker said packages without Aunt Jemima will start to appear in stores by the end of the year, although the company has not...
As the coronavirus began to upend life across the country earlier this year, media outlets turned to Cornell professor Noliwe Rooks to parse the impact on American schoolchildren. In outlets from public radio to the Wall Street Journal, Rooks explained the disproportionate effects the outbreak was having on low-income Black and Latino families—...
Following enslavement and European colonialism across the Americas in particular, Black populations are still in the mode of recovery; gaining the kind of political and economic power that would advance our communities and ourselves. Political movements often provide the groundswell that allows for transformation and a period of necessary advance...
Carole Boyce-Davies, a professor of Africana Studies at Cornell University, told Vox that the pressure to choose an identity is something uniquely faced by Black Americans with immigrant families. “This is a good time for Americans to think through this question, and particularly since it’s not raised often in the context of white immigrant...
“Middle-class and college-educated African Americans see her as an inspirational figure, but that demographic votes often and were in Biden's camp anyway,” said progressive commentator Jason Nichols. “Working-class Black voters are still mistrustful because of her mixed criminal justice issues.”Of the Black women who were on Biden’s shortlist,...
L'Unesco, organizzazione delle nazioni unite che promuove cultura e scienza, compie 75 anni. E mai come oggi il suo ruolo è centrale. Abbiamo scelto di dare voce a due sue rappresentanti, Thérèse Assié-Lumumba e Fadia Kiwan, che ci spiegano come solo con una scuola inclusiva, che colmi il divario tra paesi ricchi e poveri, tra ragazze e ragazzi,...
Listen to Professor Riché Richardson's interview on Let's Go There with Shira & Ryan.Shira and Ryan find out if another stimulus check is coming our way and break down how words like "Peace & Love" could actually be propaganda.https://omny.fm/shows/let-s-go-there-with-shira-ryan/cut-me-a-check#description
In reality, “this Aunt Jemima logo was an outgrowth of Old South plantation nostalgia and romance,” Riché Richardson, an associate professor in the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University, wrote in The New York Times in 2015. It was an image, she said, “grounded in an idea about the ‘mammy,’ a devoted and submissive servant who...
When nine Black churchgoers were murdered in South Carolina in June 2015, it gave new urgency to an ongoing battle in the culture wars: whether the Confederate flag—which the killer had fetishized, and which the state still flew over its capitol—should be considered not a benign relic of Southern heritage but a hateful symbol of white supremacy....
Big PictureIn The Nigrescent Beyond I explore the psychic vanishing of blackness within the collective imagination of the Mexican nation and think through how this work might nurture related discourses within the field of a United States–facing black studies. To get a sense of this vanishing in the Mexican context one could read Brian Hamnett’s...
Protests over the killing of 46-year old black man George Floyd by Minneapolis police have forced a national conversation about race, including the racist symbols and figures that continue to exist in our society. Earlier this week, Gov. Ralph Northam called for districts to take Confederate names off of schools in Virginia, and monuments and...
Jones’ six justifications for radicalism were being against slavery, oppression, and capitalism, and being for equal rights, suffrage, and socialism. [Carole] Boyce Davies explained that Jones always tried centering the following in her radicalism:1.) Continuing the Black radical tradition.2.) Reimagining emancipatory possibilities.3.)...
Riché Richardson, an associate professor of African American literature in the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University, has been calling for the change since she wrote a 2015 editorial for The New York Times titled "Can We Please, Finally, Get Rid of 'Aunt Jemima?'""It's an image that hearkens back to the antebellum plantation...
Both the image and the name Aunt Jemima are deeply offensive as representations of the many caricatures that pejoratively reflect the role of Black women as caretakers or cooks for white individuals. The “mammy” culture is pervasive in American life, often going unrecognized even by individuals who otherwise strive to be anti-racist. But in many...
There have been calls throughout the years to change the name of Aunt Jemima products, including a 2015 New York Times editorial entitled, "Can We Please, Finally, Get Rid of ‘Aunt Jemima’?""This Aunt Jemima logo was an outgrowth of Old South plantation nostalgia and romance grounded in an idea about the 'mammy,' a devoted and submissive servant...
As protests over racial injustice, triggered by the killing of an African American man by white police officers, continue, there are strengthening calls for reform of the US criminal justice system. Protesters chanting "defund the police" are gathering outside many government buildings. The slogan's become an umbrella term for cutting police...
Carole Boyce-Davies from Cornell University weighs in on US President Trump’s executive order to protect American monuments, memorials and statues.Watch the interview on YouTube.
Dr. Riche' Richardson discusses Systemic Racism and the brand redesign of Aunt Jemima. Watch the interview on YouTube
Despite this wholesome-sounding message, the Aunt Jemima figure is rooted in Jim Crow-era perceptions of black women, specifically the Southern “mammy” stereotype of a loyal and submissive servant. As Riché Richardson, an associate professor of African American literature at Cornell University, wrote in the New York Times in 2015, the icon is “an...
Riché Richardson, an associate professor of African American literature at Cornell University, called for Aunt Jemima’s retirement five years ago in a New York Times opinion piece — part of a wider discussion about Confederate statues and other imagery after the massacre of nine black parishioners at a church in Charleston, South Carolina.rdson...
How could the beauty industry be held liable?Multinational companies like Johnson & Johnson, through selling skin-whitening products and delivering messages on advertisements, are also responsible for shaping beauty standards, said [Zifeng] Liu from Cornell University, and thus they bear the responsibility to correct it if the standard is...
Quaker Oats didn’t mention it, but the change seems to be tied to a viral TikTok from @singkirbysing in which the singer details "how to make a non-racist breakfast." In the TikTok, Kirby talks about the history behind the Aunt Jemima brand, and ends with,“Not today. Black Lives Matter, people," as she dumps a box of Aunt Jemima pancake mix down...
Q: Juneteenth commemorates the date in 1865 when Union soldiers delivered news to Galveston, Texas, that the war was over and enslaved people were free. Why was Texas the last state in the Confederacy to get this news?Professor Washington: Well, it was the last state geographically in the Confederacy. It was the end of the line as far as the...