What We're Reading This Week | June 4
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- Research Preview: Dignity of Fragile Essential Work in a Pandemic
- Earl Lewis Awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Biden
- Earl Lewis Speaks on Reparations
- Young Speaks About Latest Book on Podcast
- Research
- Events
- News Features
- Staff Features
- In the Face of Resistance: Advancing Equity in Higher Education
- Greening the Road Ahead: Navigating Challenges for Just Transitions to Electric Vehicles
- In the Wake of Affirmative Action
- Center for Social Solutions Co-Produces 'The Cost of Inheritance'
- Press Release: Earl Lewis, University of Michigan, Receives the Roy Rosenzweig Distinguished Service Award from the Organization of American Historians
- Higher Admissions: The Rise, Decline, and Return of Standardized Testing
- Events
The Power of Diversity
“Facing Segregated Schools, Parents Took Integration Into Their Own Hands. It’s Working” by Eliza Shapiro, The New York Times
Following research which suggests that all students prosper from integrating with children of different races and classes, parents of New York City’s segregated schools recently decided to take action against exclusion. Implementing new criteria that promotes diversity, many of Brooklyn and Manhattan’s schools are projected to become more inclusive this fall.
Slavery and Its Aftermath
"On a class trip to MFA, an unexpected lesson about racism" by Renée Graham, The Boston Globe
Students visiting the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston faced blatant racism inflicted upon them by multiple museum employees. Not only will this experience have a lasting and extremely detrimental impact on the young victims, but it also demonstrates that the aftermath of slavery still has a pernicious grasp of society.
Water, Equity and Security
"When '1-In-100-Year' Floods Happen Often, What Should You Call Them?" by Rebecca Hersher, NPR
As flooding increases drastically in some parts of the U.S., many are becoming confused by the phrase “100-year floods.” This is mainly due to the fact that the probability of these events is difficult to grasp. But we also cannot forget that climate change has caused, and continues to provoke, severe flooding in many parts of the country, making them more frequent than we are accustomed to.
The Future of Work
"How Silicon Valley's successes are fueled by an underclass of 'ghost workers'" by Angela Chen, The Verge
“The great paradox of AI is that the desire to eliminate human work generates new tasks for humans.” This is what Mary Gray, author of Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass, has discovered from her investigation into the depths of the tech industry. Finding that artificial intelligence systems are fed information by humans, Gray recognizes that these “ghost workers” are a major component in the success of AI.
