Here are links to the articles regarding discrimination and hiring that I cited last week at our visit to Capacity Interactive.

NYT: Even With Affirmative Action, Blacks and Hispanics Are More Underrepresented at Top Colleges Than 35 Years Ago

The Guardian: Q&A: Anti-Black Hiring Discrimination Hasn’t Improved in 25 Years. What Can We Do?

AAUW: The Simple Truth About the Gender Pay Gap

Understanding Prejudice: Ten Myths About Affirmative Action

I also quoted Professor Cathy Davidson’s powerful idea:  “You cannot counter structural inequality with good will. You need to create new structures that support equality.”  More about that and some resources about inequality in the classroom are copied below.

From HASTAC.org: “How to Make #New Education Work in Your Classroom Today”
Inequality in our classrooms: Recommended Reading

As I’ve said many times:  “You cannot counter structural inequality with good will. You need to create new structures that support equality.”   To be informed on this topic, here are some readings to get one started:

Aaron Clauset, et al., “Systematic Inequality and Hierarchy in Faculty Hiring Networks,” Science Advances, Feb 2015.

Lani Guinier, The Tyranny of Meritocracy

Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, et al, Presumed Incompetent

Danica Savonick and Cathy N. Davidson, “Gender Bias in Academe: An Annotated Bibliograrphy of Important Recent Studies.”

Beverly Daniel Tatum, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (20th Anniversary Edition, 2017)