by Guest Contributor Jenn, originally published at Reappropriate

This post is broken into two parts for the sake of length:

Anti-Asian Bias in College Admissions?: Part 1 – An improper comparison
Anti-Asian Bias in College Admissions?: Part 2 – In support of affirmative action

Since the implementation of affirmative action in the college admissions process, opponents of the policy [...]

by Guest Contributor Lisa, originally published at Sociological Images
Protesters in Little Rock, Arkansas, (1959) declared that “race mixing” (or school integration) was “communism”:

A reader at Andrew Sullivan’s The Daily Dish argues that accusations of communism then, and socialism now, are not only about the redistribution of wealth.  They are about the redistribution of privilege of [...]

by Guest Contributor G.D., originally published at Feministe and PostBourgie

A few years back, my co-blogger quadmoniker worked for New York City’s Civilian Complaint Review Board, which is supposed to act as a watchdog group for the city’s police department. If a citizen wanted to file a complaint against a police officer, she would do so [...]

By Guest Contributor Jamelle, originally published on United States of Jamerica and PostBourgie

On his blog earlier this week, Ryan Avent made a really insightful point about the legacy of the Baby Boomer’s attitudes towards urban/suburban design:
But the really interesting point to me is that the Boomers have also screwed themselves. The policies mentioned above — [...]

by Latoya Peterson
I came across an interesting piece on Boing Boing where the author is trying to reconcile his gentrified reality.
In “Your Money or Your Life: A Lesson on the Front Stoop,” Douglas Rushkoff recounts being mugged in his neighborhood. The experience jarred him for a variety of reasons:

In the meantime, I posted a [...]

by Guest Contributor Average Bro, originally published at Average Bro
During the campaign season, lots of folks were critical of candidate Obama for not speaking out more vocally about issues that pertain to the African American community. Many saw his race-neutral style as one that largely skirted his ethnicity, and focused perhaps too much on [...]