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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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More transgender people are hiding their identity at work in the UK. Why?
Sophie Lewis of the School of Arts & Sciences weighed in on how the current political climate has made life more challenging for transgender people. “The combination of nativist, reactionary politics around Brexit and Trump along with the conditions of a pandemic would, I think, contribute to people being more afraid to be out as trans,” she said.
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A Japanese American newspaper chronicles the ‘searing’ history of immigrant incarceration
Eiichiro Azuma of the School of Arts and Sciences wrote about the experiences of Japanese Americans incarcerated in U.S. internment camps in the 1940s. The publisher of The Rafu Shimpo, a bilingual newspaper, “hid the rotary press, Japanese printing type, and other equipment under his building floorboards with an intention that he would come back to Los Angeles to resume the newspaper operation.”
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How Do Tensions With the White House Impact HBCU Diversity?
Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education discusses the misconception that historically black colleges and universities are only for African-Americans.