Noose Case Puts Focus on a Scholar of Race

Prof. Madonna G. Constantine being greeted Thursday at Columbia’s Teachers College.

By ELISSA GOOTMAN
Published: October 12, 2007

In Madonna G. Constantine’s classroom at Columbia University’s Teachers College, emotions can run high.

“People have cried in class,” said Dr. Constantine, 44, a professor of psychology and education who specializes in the study of how race and racial prejudice can affect clinical and educational interactions. “Uncovering those issues, students often get to a place where it can be painful."

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