INT 151 is critical for students because it is meant to get us to talk about race, racism and inequality in our very first year on campus. St. Joe’s is a predominantly white institution (PWI) that has,...
Race and gender in the confirmation hearings of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson
Last week’s raucous Senate spectacle centered on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s identity, the first Black American woman...
Amber Abbas, Ph.D., associate professor of history, presented “Mistaken for ‘Muslim:’ Identity and Belonging in South Asian America,” a lecture exploring the identity and background of South Asians...
For years, I had always wanted to research my family history. I had seen advertisements from companies like Ancestry and 23 and Me, which featured people from all walks of life proclaiming the success...
In order to foster open conversations about mental health and the challenges people face, Khalil Thames ’21, released his “Forever Me” project in May 2021.
Thames’ “Forever Me” project is...
A panel discussion sponsored by the Faith-Justice Institute on Feb. 5 focused on the need for the Catholic Church to better respond to the disproportionate impact of the criminal justice system on...
A narrative on race from a Dominican student
The term Afro-Latinx, a more recent adaptation of the phrase Latino for anyone who chooses to remove gender binaries from their identity, is used to describe...
A narrative from a Caribbean-American student
Being born in Miami, Florida and living my first few years in Haiti, I’ve always had a strong sense of my roots while also assimilating to a land that I...
The importance of black people in sci-fi and fantasy
I am a professed comic book nerd as well as a lover of all things science fiction and fantasy. Growing up, I read “The Lord of the Rings,” “The...
...And you might learn something
Recently on two separate occasions, I had my boyfriend and best friend, who are both black, voice that they felt their white group members in class were not listening to...
A black girl's experience with hair
“Don’t touch my hair when it’s the feelings I wear... Don’t touch my crown, they say the vision I’ve found. Don’t touch what’s there, when it’s the feelings...
The problem with supporting Aramark
In a Race and Ethics class here taught by Becki Scola, Ph.D., associate professor and chair of political science, one of our assignments was to watch “13th,”...
