Racism on Elite College Campuses
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Image from "One Consultant's Measure of Racism at a Group pf Predominantly White Colleges and Universities"
This image shows the percentage of all black students who reported being subjected to direct racism while on campus"
Princeton Univ. 6%
Harvard Univ. 7.6%
Yale Univ. 7.8%
Johns Hopkins Univ. 8.3%
University of Chicago 8.4%
Williams College 9.2%
Georgetown Univ. 9.3%
Cornell Univ. 9.6%
Dartmouth College 9.6%
Mass. Inst. of Technology 9.7%
Columbia Univ. 11.1.%
Stanford Univ. 12.4%
Wesleyan Univ. 12.5%
Northwestern Univ. 14.6%
Duke Univ. 15.7%
University of Pennsylvania 15.7%
Brown Univ. 17.2%
- This clearly indicates that Black students still feel threatened while on their college campus because of acts of racism, whether it be harrasment in the form of words, violence, or vandalization.
- In the context of the recent event at Duke University involving Lacrosse team members and two female strippers, which has resulted in two young men being indicted, these percentages are additionally potent.
- Many of these wealthy, stereotypically white, colleges are located in predominantely black cities. This scenario creates more opportunities for the types of conflicts that this study measures.
Image from "One Consultant's Measure of Racism at a Group pf Predominantly White Colleges and Universities"
- Harvard's then President made a speech about the school's commitment to fighting racism, however, that same day a student organization protested that Harvard had very little commitment to actually doing something to stop the racism.
