The Center for “Race,” Culture and Social Justice at Hofstra University

Aditi Rabindra Sachdev a , Kevin P. Nolan b , Nicholas P. Salter b , & Comila Shahani-Denning b a PepsiCo, Inc b Department of Psychology, Hofstra University On September 30, 2020, Aditi Rabindra Sachdev presented her collaborative research on hiring discrimination at the Center for “Race” Colloquia Series. Held on the last Wednesday of every month during the academic year, in these colloquia, Hofstra faculty members are invited to present their recent publications and engage with new scholarship focusing on race, culture and social justice. Below is a summary of their research findings.

  As I sat in my house writing a similar blog post last semester, I would not have expected that I would be at Hofstra just a few months later attending some in-person classes and working two jobs on campus. My pessimistic self-imagined that our nation would take a lot longer to solve some of the problems that were thrown at us by the COVID-19 pandemic. Nonetheless, the Hofstra environment has definitely changed and it is odd walking around and seeing people wearing masks and being so far away from one another, but the students and faculty seem to be working together to adjust to this idea of a “new normal.” Ultimately, there have been some things that Hofstra has done well and some things that it could improve on, but this is an experience that very few of us will ever forget.

COVID-19, Coronavirus, has affected everyone’s life in one way or another. It has been nine months and three days—at the day I am writing this—since the first COVID-19 case was found in the United States and since then, everything has transformed into a snowball, getting bigger and bigger. However, even though it was much difficult at the beginning, it seems as if everybody is adjusting and accepting a lifestyle with COVID-19. Some of these “adjustments” that society has made include adjusting economically, personally, and academically. In this blog entry, I will be reflecting on the adjustments that I have had to do in my personal life. The whole world's economy was impacted by this pandemic, especially communities inhabited majorly by minorities. Since the pandemic started, I left the Hofstra University Campus and went back home to the Bronx, New York. Here, my family and I encountered a situation that many people were enduring as well; everyone was losing their jobs in a city