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  • The “Coming White Minority”: Brazilianization or South-Africanization of U.S.? Racism Review: scholarship and activism towards racial justice 2015-08-31 Joe Feagin, Ella C. McFadden and Distinguished Professor of Sociology Texas A&M University To understand the so-called “browning of America” and “coming white minority,” we should accent the larger societal context, the big-picture context including systemic racism.…

  • Marquess of Bath’s Longleat heir has not spoken to his mother since she claimed his marriage to his half-Nigerian wife would ruin ‘400 years of bloodline’ The Daily Mail 2015-09-06 Emma Glanfield Ceawlin Thynn has fallen out with his mother over wife Emma McQuiston 41-year-old claims his mother, Marchioness of Bath, questioned marriage She apparently…

  • Suit filed over mix-up at Downers Grove sperm bank is dismissed The Chicago Tribune 2015-09-03 Clifford Ward A judge Thursday dismissed a lawsuit filed by an Ohio woman against a west suburban sperm bank whose clerical error resulted in the birth of her mixed-race daughter. DuPage County Judge Ronald Sutter tossed the suit after lawyers…

  • An Interview with Celeste Ng, Author of Everything I Never Told You The Toast 2015-09-02 Nicole S. Chung, Managing Editor Celeste Ng is the author of the novel Everything I Never Told You, which was a New York Times bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book of 2014, Amazon’s #1 Best Book of 2014, and…

  • Poet’s Muse: A Footnote to Beethoven The New York Times 2009-04-02 Felicia R. Lee Haydn almost certainly encountered him as a child in a Hungarian castle, where the boy’s father was a servant and Haydn was the director of music, and Thomas Jefferson saw him performing in Paris in 1789: a 9-year-old biracial violin prodigy…

  • The post-racial illusion: racial politics and inequality in the age of Obama Revue de Recherche en Civilisation Américaine Number 3 (March 2012): Post-racial America? Olivier Richomme l’université de Lyon II-Lumière Contents 1. The 2008 election as an exception a-The circumstances b-A post-racial election? 2. The state of the racial divide a-Economic well-being b-Health c-Housing d-Education…

  • Are You Sensitive to Interracial Children’s Special Identity Needs? Young Children Volume 42, Number 2 (January 1987) pages 53-59 Francis Wardle Red Rocks Community College, Colorado Early childhood educators continually adjust to families they serve. Educators must provide for children not living with their natural parents, children from abusive families, children who rarely see their…

  • The Time of the Multiracial American Literary History Volume 27, Number 3, Fall 2015 pages 549-556 DOI: 10.1093/alh/ajv026 Habiba Ibrahim, Associate Professor of English University of Washington, Seattle Habiba Ibrahim is the author of  Troubling the Family: The Promise of Personhood and the Rise of Multiracialism (2012). Her current book project, Oceanic Lifespans, examines how…

  • Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama: The Price and Promise of Citizenship University of South Carolina Press June 2015 224 pages 6 x 9 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-61117-531-8 eBook ISBN: 978-1-61117-532-5 Robert E. Terrill, Associate Professor Department of Communication & Culture Indiana University, Bloomington An examination of President Obama’s oratory as a reflection of the…

  • In Search of the Black Mozart BBC Radio 4 2015-07-19 and 2015-07-26 Sarah Taylor, Producer Historian Steve Martin and Double Bassist Chi-chi Nwanoku Chi-chi Nwanoku has spent her career travelling and performing in concert halls the world over as the principal double bassist of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. More recently, she’s been…