Mixed Race Studies

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  • Katherine Johnson: National Visionary

    Katherine Johnson: National Visionary National Visionary Leadership Project 2005 Image of Katherine Johnson at NASA Langley Research Center in 1971. NASA mathematician and physicist whose work successfully guided astronauts throughout the historic early era of manned space flight including the first mission to the moon BIOGRAPHY Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson is a pioneer of the…

  • Mary Seacole – International Woman

    Mary Seacole – International Woman The Huffington Post, United Kingdom 2015-03-04 Elizabeth Anionwu, Emeritus Professor of Nursing University of West London Later this year a memorial statue to Mary Seacole will be unveiled in the gardens of St Thomas’ hospital, overlooking the River Thames and the Houses of Parliament. Sir Hugh Taylor, Chairman of Guys…

  • Land of the Cosmic Race

    Land of the Cosmic Race Sociological Forum Volume 30, Issue 1 (March 2015) pages 248-251 DOI: 10.1111/socf.12157 Martha King Graduate Center City University of New York Land of the Cosmic Race: Race Mixture, Racism, and Blackness in Mexico. Christina A. Sue. New York: University of Oxford Press, 2013. In Land of the Cosmic Race: Race…

  • Identity Entrepreneurs

    Identity Entrepreneurs 2015-03-05 87 pages Nancy Leong, Associate Professor of Law University of Denver Sturm College of Law In my previous article Racial Capitalism, I examined the ways in which white individuals and predominantly white institutions derive value from non-white racial identity. This process results in part from our intense social and legal preoccupation with…

  • Obama, at Selma Memorial, Says, ‘We Know the March Is Not Over Yet’

    Obama, at Selma Memorial, Says, ‘We Know the March Is Not Over Yet’ The New York Times 2015-03-07 Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent Richard Fausset Doug Mills/The New York Times SELMA, Ala. — As a new generation struggles over race and power in America, President Obama and a host of political figures from both…

  • Urging Persistence on Racial Gains, Obama Recalls Sacrifice in Selma

    Urging Persistence on Racial Gains, Obama Recalls Sacrifice in Selma The New York Times 2015-03-06 Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent Julie Hirschfeld Davis, White House Correspondent COLUMBIA, S.C. — For the nation’s first African-American president, it was a week of two documents that told the story of a country still grappling with its own…

  • Man Shot Dead by Police After Scuffle in Wisconsin

    Man Shot Dead by Police After Scuffle in Wisconsin The New York Times 2015-03-07 Ashley Southall A 19-year-old Wisconsin man was shot and killed Friday by a police officer during a scuffle inside an apartment in Madison, police officials said. The shooting prompted protests that continued on Saturday and led officials to call for restraint…

  • Gordon Fox Pleads Guilty in Rhode Island Corruption Case

    Gordon Fox Pleads Guilty in Rhode Island Corruption Case The New York Times 2015-03-03 Richard Pérez-Peña The climb took decades, but the fall was swift. Less than a year removed from his reign as speaker of the Rhode Island House, Gordon D. Fox pleaded guilty on Tuesday to taking bribes, wire fraud and filing a…

  • Interracial Intimacies: An Examination of Powerful Men and Their Relationships across the Color Line

    Unique among books on interracial relationships, this book examines the lives of high profile men who have produced public discourses on race and interracial relationships and who themselves, often contradictory to their rhetoric, were or continue to be involved in love relationships across the color line.

  • Because of Our Success: The Changing Racial and Ethnic Ancestry of Blacks on Affirmative Action

    Because of Our Success: The Changing Racial and Ethnic Ancestry of Blacks on Affirmative Action Carolina Academic Press December 2014 404 pages Paper ISBN: 978-1-61163-444-0 Kevin Brown, Richard S. Melvin Professor of Law Maurer School of Law Indiana University When selective colleges, universities, and graduate programs instituted affirmative action policies in the 1960s, 99.4 percent…