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African Americans Shut Out of Rhodes Scholarship Awards
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Since JBHE began tracking the awarding of Rhodes scholarships to African Americans in 1996, there has been between one and three black students each year among the 32 Americans awarded Rhodes scholarships. This year there are no black Rhodes winners.
British industrialist Cecil J. Rhodes, the founder of the Rhodes scholarship program, was deeply committed to beliefs in the inherent superiority of the white race. Writing in 1877 he said, "I contend that we are the finest race in the wor...
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