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  • White people, don’t tell me what Martin Luther King would think of Black Lives Matter

    White people, don’t tell me what Martin Luther King would think of Black Lives Matter Vox 2016-07-08 Jon Crowley Toronto, Ontario, Canada I woke up Thursday morning and accidentally watched a video of Alton Sterling being killed by the police. In a world of social feeds and autoplaying video, I’m far from the only person…

  • MSU faculty contribute to book on white privilege

    MSU faculty contribute to book on white privilege Mississippi State University 2016-07-01 Contact: Allison Matthews STARKVILLE, Miss.—Two Mississippi State faculty members helped lead a literary effort examining the basis and scope of racial identity as an American social structure. Stephen Middleton, professor of history and director for African American Studies at MSU, along with associate…

  • #BlackLivesMatter

    #BlackLivesMatter The Cairo Review of Global Affairs Spring 2015 Reverend Charles Williams II, Senior Pastor King Solomon Baptist Church, Detroit, Michigan Demonstrator protesting the police killing of teenager Michael Brown, Ferguson, Aug. 18, 2014. Charlie Riedel/Associated Press. Conservative backlash against Barack Obama and continuing police brutality against blacks indicates the country’s legacy of slavery has…

  • Those Discriminated Against Are Now the Discriminators

    Those Discriminated Against Are Now the Discriminators Indian Country Today Media Network 2015-12-31 Juilanne Jennings For some odd and stupid reason many of us continue to be color struck. I really think most of us are ignorant or at the very least forgetful. Black people who look “white” is not a new phenomenon. In the…

  • The Best “Worst President”: What the Right Gets Wrong About Barack Obama

    The Best “Worst President”: What the Right Gets Wrong About Barack Obama Dey Street Books (an imprint of HarperCollins) 2016-06-28 336 pages Trimsize: 5.75 in (w) x 8.25 in (h) x 1.274 in (d) Hardcover ISBN: 9780062443052 E-book ISBN: 9780062443090 Mark Hannah Illustrated by Bob Staake Political analyst and Democratic campaign veteran Mark Hannah and…

  • Picking Sides: An Exploratory Documentary on Multiraciality

    Picking Sides: An Exploratory Documentary on Multiraciality Arizona State University December 2015 Amanda Catherine Cavazos Multiracial individuals are the fastest growing demographic group in the United States. In order to explore and gain insight into how mixed-race individuals understand and negotiate their identity, this project includes a documentary of compiled interviews with multiracial individuals. These…

  • Inclusion Policies and the Future of Racial Relations in Brazil

    Inclusion Policies and the Future of Racial Relations in Brazil The Futures We Want: Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World 3rd ISA Forum of Sociology 2016-07-10 through 2016-07-14 Vienna, Austria Tuesday, 2016-07-12, 09:30 CEST (Local Time) Room: Hörsaal 34 Oral Presentation Valter Silvério, Associate Professor of Sociology Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos,…

  • Multiracial People and the Socialization of Their Children in Britain

    Multiracial People and the Socialization of Their Children in Britain The Futures We Want: Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World 3rd ISA Forum of Sociology 2016-07-10 through 2016-07-14 Vienna, Austria Tuesday, 2016-07-12, 14:15 CEST (Local Time) Room: Hörsaal 31 Oral Presentation Miri Song, Professor of Sociology University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, United…

  • The Common Cause: Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution

    The Common Cause: Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution University of North Carolina Press June 2016 Approx. 640 pages 21 halftones, 1 figs., 7 maps, 33 tables, notes, index 6.125 x 9.25 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-4696-2663-5 Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia Robert G. Parkinson, Assistant Professor…

  • Prize-winning Hong Kong-born poet Sarah Howe makes verse of city’s Basic Law

    Prize-winning Hong Kong-born poet Sarah Howe makes verse of city’s Basic Law South China Morning Post 2016-07-07 Clare Tyrrell-Morin Having played down her Chinese side while growing up and studying in the UK, Howe, now at Harvard, has turned to it again as she makes an ‘erasure poem’ out of Hong Kong’s mini-constitution We meet…