{"id":430,"date":"2015-11-20T18:04:19","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T18:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/aaas16\/?p=430"},"modified":"2015-11-20T18:04:19","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T18:04:19","slug":"dubois-mizzou-yale-and-the-hbcu-vs-pwi-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/aaas16\/2015\/11\/20\/dubois-mizzou-yale-and-the-hbcu-vs-pwi-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"DuBois, Mizzou, Yale, and the HBCU vs. PWI Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of the points that DuBois brought up in his essay are still very valid today, especially regarding the disparagement a lot of HBCUs receive in comparison to more elite (i.e. whiter, older, richer) institutions. Between <em>Integration Interrupted<\/em> and &#8220;Does the Negro Need Separate Schools&#8221; a lot of the arguments that are pro-HBCU are represented. Black students face a lot of obstacles while attending majority white schools; teacher bias, racial insensitivity, and\u00a0a general lack of support, and these are\u00a0all issues that would be lessened\u00a0by attendance at an HBCU. When another incident\u00a0makes headlines in a few months, this debate will come back to life again I&#8217;m sure.\u00a0Every single year that I&#8217;ve been here, there has been a racial incident on campus. The Affirmative Action article by Sarah Siskand, Zimmerman&#8217;s Trial, and most recently the defacing of African American professor&#8217;s portraits at HLS. Student activism towards these events has been met with mixed reactions from a majority white student populace. Allies are vocal, but a lot of students feel discomfort and irritation over what they see as needless divisions on campus and aggressive flyers and posters. With the recent events at Yale, Mizzou, and predominantly white institutions nationwide, the classic HBCU vs. PWI\u00a0is on the minds of a lot of students again. The readings from last week were an interesting supplement to real life happenings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of the points that DuBois brought up in his essay are still very valid today, especially regarding the disparagement a lot of HBCUs receive in comparison to more elite (i.e. whiter, older, richer) institutions. Between Integration Interrupted and &#8220;Does the Negro Need Separate Schools&#8221; a lot of the arguments that are pro-HBCU are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/aaas16\/2015\/11\/20\/dubois-mizzou-yale-and-the-hbcu-vs-pwi-debate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DuBois, Mizzou, Yale, and the HBCU vs. PWI Debate<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7283,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[142764],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-community"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/aaas16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/aaas16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/aaas16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/aaas16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/aaas16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/aaas16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/aaas16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions\/431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/aaas16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/aaas16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/aaas16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}