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Category: Diversity
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There are a number of important lessons, if not downright teachable moments, in the July 16 arrest of Professor Henry Louis Gates by Cambridge Police Sargeant James Crowley, and the subsequent involvement of President Barack Obama when he said that the Cambridge Police acted stupidly in arresting Professor Gates in his own home. Clearly, race…
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I watched Sonia Sotomayor’s Senate confirmation hearings with mixed feelings, ranging from boredom to anger. I found some of the questions and comments so off-putting that at times I had to look away and turn the TV off. But overall, there was a kind of fascination to the hearings, especially in what they told us…
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In his first press conference as President-elect on November 7, Barack Obama talked about the dog he was going to get for his daughters Malia and Sasha. He mentioned that since Malia is allergic, the family is looking for a hypoallergenic breed. “There are a number of breeds that are hypoallergenic, but on the other…
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Last week I moderated a panel on the societal implications of the financial crisis as part of the Westport Library Community Conversation series. Our panel discussed a variety of topics, and had a lively dialogue with a very engaged, smart and opinionated audience. I started out by asking each of our panel members to share…
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In the last few months, I have been thinking a lot about the potential causes of our global financial crisis. I have done my best to capture my thoughts in various entries in this blog as well as in seminars I recently gave at Imperial College and MIT. While doing research on the subject, I came across a…
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On December 31, 1958 we were celebrating New Year's Eve in the home of a friend, about a block from our apartment on Calle 4 in Miramar, a nice, middle class section of Havana. I was thirteen, in the second year of high school of our more European-like educational system, which consisted of six years…
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About a week ago we learned that an Ecuadorian man died from injuries incurred in a beating in New York City in what authorities say may have been a hate crime. CNN reported that: "Jose Sucuzhanay and his brother, Romel, had left a party on December 7 at St. Brigid's Roman Catholic Church when several…
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In a recent post, I wrote about the current meaning of political labels along the liberal – conservative spectrum, especially as they were used in the very long 2008 campaign for US president. My personal conclusion was: "The terms ‘liberal’ and ‘conservative’ are alive and well when it comes to social issues, but they are…
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Earlier in October I was in Houston to attend the annual Hispanic Engineer's National Achievement Award Conference (HENAAC). HENAAC key mission is promoting science, technology, engineering and math careers in underrepresented communities, especially the US Hispanic community. It has been doing so for twenty years now. The highlight of the annual HENAAC conference is the…
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In the last few weeks there have been lots of articles in the press about the alleged sexist media coverage of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. Many have suggested that, just like the historical candidacy of Barack Obama has presented us with the opportunity to have a serious dialogue on race,…