A typical throwaway statement people make in causal and academic spaces is that “‘race’ is a social construct.” This statement is, of course, factual and even a given. People struggle the most with that though “race” is a social construct, both systemic and everyday racism is too concrete. As a scholar of “race,” racialization, and […]
Robert Castro, professor of criminal justice, discusses how President Biden is rolling back the previous administration’s immigration policies.
My grandfather was born and raised in Georgia. Papa was raised in the South in the ’40s and ’50s. When he moved West, he wanted to disassociate from the racism he grew up with, so we didn’t have “The Talk” about racial injustices. Basketball lifted him out of the South. He played in the Navy […]
The past year forced me to reflect on the nuance of anti-racism. In 2019, the term was almost entirely void from the common vernacular — merely a creative book title or a dismissed demand of activists. One year of hell later, it’s become the verbalized modus operandi. Since the murders of Breonna Taylor and George […]
The Tarsadia Foundation recently committed a $300,000 gift to the Center for Healthy Neighborhoods to support its three-year strategic plan.
Paying tribute to Black lives, Cal State Fullerton University Singers perform Bernice Johnson Reagan’s “Ella’s Song.”
“You might want to know how someone who grew up in Compton — a place that had one of the highest murder rates, per capita, in the world — went from a place of violence to becoming a scholar of Martin Luther King Jr.?” said Gerald C. Rivers, during a Titans Together speaker series event […]
Many teachers have had to consider inviting careful dialogue into their K-12 classrooms after the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and other national events. Having that conversation is especially important, said Alison Dover, associate professor of secondary education at Cal State Fullerton. Dover said educators have a legal and ethical responsibility to condemn […]
President Fram Virjee is leading other university presidents in discussing and taking action to eradicate systemic racism and promote social justice on college campuses and around the nation.