The Princeton Prize in Race Relations

04/18/2023

Alumni Spotlight For Daniella Cohen ’22, the Princeton Prize in Race Relations is more essential than ever by Jeff Labrecque April 17, 2023 by Jeff Labrecque April 17, 2023 In an era of email and texts, it is easy to forget the simple joy of opening a mailed letter from a friend — even one you.....

12/12/2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/10/us/black-wwii-soldier-albert-king.html?smid=url-share

Private Albert H. King is one of dozens of Black service members believed to have been killed on or near U.S. bases because of their race but whose stories were largely papered over.

11/01/2022

https://www.nytimes.com/.../affirmative-action-asian...
"Teachers’ positive biases toward Asian students affect their assessment of white, Black and Hispanic students, too. The economists Ying Shi and Maria Zhu looked at the standardized test scores of public school students in North Carolina and compared them to teachers’ judgments of the same students. In research the economists presented at a National Bureau of Economic Research conference this spring, they found persistent Asian-white disparities in teacher ratings. Teachers are significantly more likely to rate Asian students’ skills higher relative to their standardized test scores compared to similarly performing white peers in the same class, even after adjusting for sociodemographic and behavioral measures."
Dr. Shi and Dr. Zhu also found that the presence of a single Asian student in a class amplifies teachers’ negative assessments of Black and Hispanic students vis-à-vis white students. Research in education typically focuses on Black-white or Hispanic-white achievement gaps and pays little or no attention to Asian Americans. But these new lines of research show how much more we learn about the ways race affects achievement when we include Asian Americans in our studies. They also show what we get wrong when we exclude them."

08/31/2022

The new course will undergo a pilot program in 60 schools, as the debate over how to teach history becomes ever more divisive.

08/25/2022

https://twitter.com/karl_jacoby/status/1562509065741561861?s=20&t=q3Pzc34GpxnNEIsZZUGBkA

“Historian here to remind you that when the student body was predominantly white, world-class public universities like Berkeley charged no tuition. Today's student debt is a product of underfunding of education right as integration began to take place. https://t.co/dGVpGqPkuY”

08/22/2022

https://twitter.com/DavidPepper/status/1561372655395160065

“🚨 🚨 SUNDAY refresher whiteboard, because they continue to censor history. See why…both the danger (and purpose) of this censorship, in under 2 minutes. WATCH and RT:”

08/19/2022

Environmental Racism.

The Tennessee Valley Authority's move to dump coal ash in south Memphis shows how industries work to fight their way into communities of color already teeming with pollution.

07/20/2022

"According to his bio page, Mirani graduated from Glenelg High School where he was class president, the vice president and co-founder of his high school’s Young Democrats club, and co-captain of the school’s debate team. The teen also received a Baltimore region Princeton Prize in Race Relations Certificate of Accomplishment “for his work to advance racial equity in Howard County.”

A 17-year-old can be found on the ballot this election year as he seeks a spot on the Howard County Democratic Central Committee.

07/19/2022

https://effroncenter.princeton.edu/areas-study/undergraduate/prizes

Princeton Prize in Race Relations Senior Thesis Prize The Princeton Prize in Race Relations Senior Thesis Prize, endowed by the Princeton University Class of 1966, is awarded annually to a member of the senior class, irrespective of academic concentration, whose senior thesis adds significantly to o...

07/12/2022

The student who inspired this generous donation is Jordyn Hudson, Princeton Prize Winner!

NBA Legend Charles Barkley has donated $1 million to Spelman College.

06/19/2022

Happy Juneteenth! Please join for its Reflections on Juneteenth event!

05/13/2022