My visit to the Penn Museum’s Africa exhibit was a sobering experience. I will try here to evaluate what I think are the museum’s attempts to come to terms with the ethical issues surrounding this exhibit. On the one hand, the museum’s curators have clearly tried to demonstrate to visitors that it has deeply… Read more

I was assigned the articles by Feagin (1991) and Bobo (2000) for this week. These are very different articles and so will require largely separate analysis. By interviewing multiple respondents, Feagin’s study sought to determine the responses of middle-class Black Americans to discrimination in public places. This discrimination ran the gamut from avoidance and hostile… Read more