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Transforming Race: Crisis and Opportunity in the Age of Obama |
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An Evening with Ms. Angela Davis - Featured speaker for the 40th Annual United Black World Month Celebration |
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Three Kirwan Authors Featured in Hale Center/OMA Authors and Conversation Soul Food Luncheon Series: February 26, Sharon Davies, Rising Road: A True Tale of Love, Race, and Religion in America (book info) |
The Communities of Opportunity model advocates for a fair investment in all of a region’s people and neighborhoods—to improve the life outcomes of all citizens, and to improve the health of entire regions...
We agree that all too often implicit and explicit race talk has indeed been used to divide and alienate. At the same time, we believe colorblindness, though sometimes urged by people and organizations with the best intentions, is a mistake.
Our work operates on the premise that opportunities exist in a complex web of interdependent factors, and that to alleviate inequities in any single area, we must first consider the entire structure that supports these inequities.
We recognize that public education, like every structure in society that confers benefits to individuals unequally based on race and class, is part of a larger system with lifelong implications for both individual and group-based success.
Inequality has a geographic footprint. We have pioneered the use of maps to communicate the history and presence of discriminatory and exclusionary policies that spatially segregate people.
Social justice issues are never static and new challenges and issues are constantly emerging. In addition to our core research areas, the Institute has several emerging research initiatives that are responsive to new issues that have profound impacts on racial and ethnic groups.
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Beyond The Quick Fix: ARRA Contracting, Jobs and Building a Fair Recovery for Florida (January 2010) |
Media Coverage - January 2010
Coverage by USA Today, The Washington Post, Houston Chronicle
Interviews with WCMH NBC4 News at 5, The Jack Gravely Show
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Connecticut Opportunity Mapping Initiative: Results and Resource Materials - New Update!
Montclair NJ Board of Education Approves Student Assignment Plan Designed by Kirwan
The Recovery Act and Race – One Year Later: Seven Social Justice Leaders Speak Out
Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010, 9:30 - 10:30 a.m
(News Release) (Fact Sheet)
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Response to the State of the Union Address |
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Race/Ethnicity Journal |
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International Program Page - New updates with projects, publications and more ... |
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Kirwan eUpdate January/February 2010 |
Employment Opportunities
2010 Kirwan Institute Summer Internship Programs
Application deadlines: February 19 and March 5
Advocates struggle to measure stimulus relief for minority businesses on The Washington Post - Jan. 18, 2010
quotes Kirwan Institute's work on federal stimulus funds
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Two books by Kirwan authors being released in February 2010: |
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness |
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Rising Road: A True Tale of Love, Race, and Religion in America |
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Both authors will be featured in Hale Center/OMA Authors and Conversation Soul Food Luncheon Series on March 26 and February 26. |
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