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David J. Leonard is associate professor in the Department of Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies at Washington State University, Pullman. With a B.A. in Black studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a master’s and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, he has dedicated his career to interdisciplinary scholarship, transformative teaching, and research that underscores the continued significance of race within popular culture, the structures of politics, and society at large.
He is the author of Screens Fade to Black: Contemporary African American Cinema and co-editor of Criminalized and Commodified: New Racism and African Americans in Contemporary Sports (Rowman and Littlefield). He is author of the just released After Artest: The NBA and the Assault on Blackness (SUNY Press) as well as several other works. Leonard is a regular contributor to NewBlackMan, layupline, Feminist Wire, and Urban Cusp. He is a past contributor to Ebony, Slam, and Racialicious as well as a past contributor to Loop21, The Nation, and The Starting Five. He blogs at No Tsuris.
During this appearance, David talks about affirmative action including:
– Why affirmative action was introduced
– The background on current court case in which a University of Texas student who believe that she did gain admission to the University of Texas but less qualified minority students were given admission
– The status of affirmative action and the education system
– Why has the opposition against affirmative action has increased – – How opponents of affirmative action has used the election of Barack Obama to say that affirmative action is not needed
– What is needed to have affirmative action being addressed in American society
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