Brooks: How racist is America?
July 23, 2021
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One question lingers amid all the debates about critical race theory: How racist is this land?
Anybody with eyes to see and ears to hear knows about the oppression of the Native Americans, about slavery and Jim Crow. But does that mean that America is even now a white supremacist nation, that whiteness is a cancer that leads to oppression for other groups? Or is racism mostly a part of America’s past, something we’ve largely overcome?
There are many ways to answer these questions. The most important is by having honest conversations with the people directly affected. But another is by asking: How high are the barriers to opportunity for different groups? Do different groups have a fair shot at the American dream? This approach isn’t perfect, but at least it points us to empirical data rather than just theory and supposition.
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Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C., on politics, demographics and inequality.
In the international competition to produce a work force equipped to cope with accelerating rates of technological innovation, the United States is leaving hundreds of thousands of highly capable people by the wayside, perhaps even millions.
“Current talent search procedures focus on the assessment of mathematical and verbal ability,” wrote David Lubinski of Vanderbilt and Harrison J. Kell, a senior researcher at the Educational Testing Service, in “Spatial Ability: A Neglected Talent in Educational and Occupational Settings.” Lubinski and Kell stress the failure of many of such searches to test for the cognitive skill known as spatial ability.
NJCU will host first Guarini Institute panel on economic mobility after COVID-19 in September
New Jersey City University President Sue Henderson and former U.S. Rep. Frank Guarini. Photo courtesy of NJCU.
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The key note will be delivered by Raj Chetty, William A. Ackman School of Economics Professor at Harvard University.
Other speakers include Brian Bridges, Secretary of Higher Education for the state of New Jersey, Allan E. Goodman, President of the Institute of International Education, and Irene Trowell-Harris, Air Force Veteran and member of the Board of Trustees of NJCU.
“This signature event will convene a diverse group of senior leaders to discuss the role of universities to foster economic mobility in a post-Covid-19 world,” NJCU President Sue Henderson.
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