A group of OSU students, narrated by Education Double Degree student Anderson DuBoise III, posted a video on YouTube this week:
It’s a response to another YouTube video by UCLA students who called themselves the Black Bruins: http://youtu.be/BEO3H5BOlFk. In both cases, the students are Black men talking about enrollment and retention of Black men at the university.
How serious is our university about diversity? How can we respond to the issues these men are addressing and experiencing?
We shared these links first via email, and Cheridy Aduviri shared a similar video from an OSU student about his experience as a man of color on campus: http://when-tech-met-ed.blogspot.com/2013/07/why-become-and-educator-doigetpaid4this.html. His original audience were high school students in a migrant education summer program here on campus. They’d been discussing social justice in education.
Thanks for sharing this Stacey.
Oregon’s racial history, diversity explored (Mail Tribune)
In 1844, Oregon, not yet a territory, was founded as a “white homeland” that banned slavery and excluded blacks — a tenet that transferred to the state constitution and allowed punishment of African-Americans who refused to leave, said Walidah Imarisha, an adjunct professor of history at Portland State University and Oregon State University.
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We need to better explore the history associated with our state and its lack of diversity that did not happen by accident.