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Demand for Balenciaga drops after outrage over 'racist' sweatpants

Marquita Gammage, professeur agrégé d’études africaines à la California State University, Northridge, a déclaré à CNN qu’elle était dérangée par le pantalon et qu’elle le considérait comme “une culture noire dans l’espoir d’obtenir des profits importants”. -- Crumpe, France (in French)

Thomas D. Elias: University of California becoming more Californian

Extra money headed to the Cal State system will allow Humboldt State in Arcata to become a polytechnic college, focusing on science, technology and math and let Cal State Northridge create a center to guarantee racial and ethnic equity in the same STEM areas, for just two examples. -- Napa Valley Register

Newsom recall election tests the California dream

Jessica Kim, a history professor at Cal State Northridge, recognizes the subtext. “There is a common trend in California politics of thinking about limited resources especially in terms of what those perceived as being foreign are taking from us,” she said. -- Los Angeles Times

Balenciaga’s $1,190 sagging sweatpants slammed as racist

Marquita Gammage, an associate professor of Africana Studies at California State University, Northridge, told CNN she was disturbed by the pants and views it as “Black culture with the hopes of securing major profits.” -- New York Post

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