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Jun 4, 2020

How To Be An Ally When You Don’t Know Where To Start

I recently recorded a passionate YouTube video with this title, and decided to turn it into a blogpost. It is my basic 4-point plan for…

How To Be An Ally When You Don’t Know Where To Start

Ruth C. White, PhD

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May 29, 2020

Thoughts on fixing racism in America

Despite my inherent optimism, I believe there is no ‘fixing’ racism in America when fear defines so much of the relationship between black…

Thoughts on fixing racism in America

Ruth C. White, PhD

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Apr 2, 2019

Buying Admission.

Commentary on the latest college admission scandal from the perspective of a college professor, mom of a college athlete and a black woman.

Ruth C. White, PhD

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Apr 18, 2018

LEARN FROM STARBUCKS: How corporations should respond to charges of racism

It’s not the first time that Starbucks has been embroiled in controversy with regard to race. Almost 3 years ago, ex-CEO Howard Schultz…

LEARN FROM STARBUCKS: How corporations should respond to charges of racism

Ruth C. White, PhD

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Mar 28, 2018

Repealing the Second Amendment: A Proposal for the 28th Amendment (Amendment XXVIII)

Five years ago, on February 1, 2013, I wrote a post on my old Provoking Policy blog (which this blog replaces) about a 28th Amendment…

Ruth C. White, PhD

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Oct 26, 2017

The Challenge of Traveling Green

I grew up in a family that goes places. My Jamaican parents met and married in London and raised my younger sister and I in Britain…

The Challenge of Traveling Green

Ruth C. White, PhD

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Sep 30, 2017

The Good Tourist: 6 best practices for visiting the world

As travel gets cheaper and more of us wander about the planet, we can sometimes be unwanted because of the negative social, cultural…

Ruth C. White, PhD

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Sep 29, 2017

What the Wealthy Have to Offer to the Study of Poverty

Poverty is not ‘created’ by the poor. And though the poor shall be with us always as the Bible says somewhere within its covers, the degree…

Ruth C. White, PhD

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Sep 29, 2017

Good intentions, exploitation and studying ‘the poor’

I am an academic and thus I am required to do research and to write. As someone who studied sociology, social welfare, public health…

Good intentions, exploitation and studying ‘the poor’

Ruth C. White, PhD

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Sep 29, 2017

Free Speech, Safe Spaces and Academic Freedom

Fall is here and students are back in the classroom and free speech is back on the agenda.

Free Speech, Safe Spaces and Academic Freedom

Ruth C. White, PhD

Ruth C. White, PhD

From the ivory tower to main street. Thinking critically & writing provocatively about the implications of policy for people & places. And other random topics.

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