Yet Another Costume Party Debacle: Why Racial Ignorance Persists on Elite College Campuses

How the policies of elite colleges allow racially themed parties to continue by perpetuating the status quo.

On a cold February evening, a group of students at Bowdoin College, an elite and historically white liberal arts college in Maine, gathered to drink tequila at a party referred to as "not not a fiesta." By noon the next day, Instagram videos of students sporting miniature sombreros had spread like wildfire through campus. Over the next few weeks, national media outlets would broadc...