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  • The top 13 Jewish newsmakers of 5775

    The top 13 Jewish newsmakers of 5775 JTA: Jewish Telegraphic Agency 2015-08-26 Julie Wiener (JTA) — With the Jewish year winding down, here’s a look back at 13 Jews who repeatedly made the news in 5775. Whether you love them or hate them — or your feelings are purely pareve — it’s hard to deny…

  • Negroland: A Memoir

    Negroland: A Memoir Pantheon 2015-09-08 256 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0307378453 eBook ISBN: Margo Jefferson At once incendiary and icy, mischievous and provocative, celebratory and elegiac—here is a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American culture through the prism of the author’s rarefied upbringing and education among a black elite concerned with distancing itself from…

  • What Are You? A Personal Poetry Reading

    What Are You? A Personal Poetry Reading Slide Share 2013-10-18 Gerry Yokota, Professor Osaka University, Osaka, Japan My reading of the 1971 poem by Nobuko JoAnne Miyamoto when I was young kids used to ask me what are you? I’d tell them what my mom told me I’m an American Chin Chin Chinaman you’re a…

  • Race in the United States – Mississippi and Hawaii at Two Ends of the Spectrum

    Race in the United States – Mississippi and Hawaii at Two Ends of the Spectrum UCR Today University of California, Riverdale 2015-09-04 Mojgan Sherkat (mojgan.sherkat@ucr.edu) RIVERSIDE, Calif. (www.ucr.edu) – There’s a lot to learn about race in the United States through statistical figures alone, especially when comparisons are made between Hawaii and Mississippi, according to…

  • Multiracial Gen Z And The Future Of Marketing

    Multiracial Gen Z And The Future Of Marketing Media Post 2015-09-03 Jose Villa, Founder and president Sensis, Los Angeles, California Millennials are generally believed to be the most ethnically and racially diverse generation in American history. Hispanics (20%), African-Americans (14%) and Asians (6%) make up 40% of the total millennial population. This diversity underpins the…

  • Understanding Race on Black London history walk

    Understanding Race on Black London history walk Sociology in the City: blogging from Sociology at the University of Westminster University of Westminster London, United Kingdom 2015-02-20 Students of the first year module Understanding Race went on a walking tour this morning, led by the writer and historian Steve Martin. Challenging the popular idea that race…

  • Louise Erdrich on her fiction: ‘I’m writing out of the mixture of cultures’

    Louise Erdrich on her fiction: ‘I’m writing out of the mixture of cultures’ The Guardian 2015-09-05 Bridey Heing Receiving the Library of Congress prize for American fiction, Erdrich spoke of how her writing emerged from the ‘great loss’ of Native Americans Novelist Louise Erdrich was presented with the Library of Congress prize for American fiction…

  • Call for Papers: “Mixed Race in Scandinavia”

    Call for Papers: “Mixed Race in Scandinavia” The Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies e-ISSN: 2325-4521 September 2015 G. Reginald Daniel, Editor in Chief and Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara JCMRS encourages established and emerging scholars to submit articles in response to the annual call of papers. The journal is currently inviting…

  • Chosen by Mississippi Democrats, Shy Trucker Is at a Crossroad

    Chosen by Mississippi Democrats, Shy Trucker Is at a Crossroad The New York Times 2015-09-07 Campbell Robertson, Southern Correspondent Robert Gray (Photo source: WLBT-TV) JACKSON, Miss. — Only three people who had ever met this man, Robert Gray, knew that he was running in the primary for governor of Mississippi. There were the two volunteers…

  • Bottles, Bubbles, and Blood: Jean Toomer and the Limits of Racial Epidermalism

    Bottles, Bubbles, and Blood: Jean Toomer and the Limits of Racial Epidermalism Modernism/modernity Volume 22, Number 2, April 2015 pages 279-302 DOI: 10.1353/mod.2015.0041 Catherine Keyser, Associate Professor of English Language and Literature University of South Carolina In an unpublished 1935 memoir, Jean Toomer reminisces about his job as a soda jerk in high school and…