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Civic engagement is a core value for me. I have always aspired to help the communities I’m from.” Mazaher Kaila, a Maxwell alumna and third-year student at Syracuse University's College of Law, moved with her family from Sudan to Central New York when she was four years old. “I realized that to make meaningful change in society, I needed to understand the systems that power it—government and politics—and that’s insight I would gain by studying political science.”
Mazaher Kaila ’19, L’22
political science, law
Campbell Piece on US Military, White Supremacy and Affirmative Action Published in CounterPunch
July 17, 2023
CounterPunch
In June, the Supreme Court of the United States struck down the race-conscious admissions program policies—called affirmative action—that had been embarked on after the civil rights uprisings of the 1960s and 1970s. A key feature of the affirmative action decision is that military service academies are exempt.
In his article, "The United States Military, White Supremacy, and Affirmative Action," published in CounterPunch, Professor of Political Science Horace Campbell writes, "This contradiction of diminishing equity in access to higher education while maintaining the recruitment of non-whites to fight to defend the system of white racism is a contradiction that is coming to the fore in the United States."
"Of the 1.3 million forces under arms in the U.S. military structures, 43 percent are nonwhite citizens. Yet only 19 percent of the top officer corps are nonwhite," he adds.
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BaoBao Zhang Joins First Cohort of AI2050 Early Career Fellows
One of only 15 scholars chosen from across the U.S., Zhang will receive up to $200,000 in research funding over the next two years. Zhang will use the funding to partner with the nonprofit, non-partisan Center for New Democratic Processes to test whether public participation in AI governance is increased through the creation of public assemblies, known as “deliberative democracy workshops.”
Baobao Zhang
Assistant Professor, Political Science Department
Campbell Piece on US Military, White Supremacy and Affirmative Action Published in CounterPunch
July 17, 2023
CounterPunch
In June, the Supreme Court of the United States struck down the race-conscious admissions program policies—called affirmative action—that had been embarked on after the civil rights uprisings of the 1960s and 1970s. A key feature of the affirmative action decision is that military service academies are exempt.
In his article, "The United States Military, White Supremacy, and Affirmative Action," published in CounterPunch, Professor of Political Science Horace Campbell writes, "This contradiction of diminishing equity in access to higher education while maintaining the recruitment of non-whites to fight to defend the system of white racism is a contradiction that is coming to the fore in the United States."
"Of the 1.3 million forces under arms in the U.S. military structures, 43 percent are nonwhite citizens. Yet only 19 percent of the top officer corps are nonwhite," he adds.
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