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  • Have That Awkward Conversation About Race – And Yes, Whiteness Too

    Have That Awkward Conversation About Race – And Yes, Whiteness Too KUOW 94.9 FM Seattle, Washington 2014-12-24 Jamala Henderson, Morning Newscaster/Reporter Protests over high profile police shootings have renewed calls to discuss police treatment of African-Americans – and talk about race relations in general. But how do we have those difficult and often awkward conversations?…

  • Is the Defendant White or Not?

    Is the Defendant White or Not? The New York Times 2015-01-23 Nour Kteily, Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations Kellogg School of Management Northwestern University Sarah Cotterill, Doctoral Student Department of Psychology Harvard University AS jury selection continues in the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the defendant in the Boston Marathon bombings, so does debate about…

  • Moving beyond monoracial categories

    Moving beyond monoracial categories The Daily: of the University of Washington 2015-01-25 Emily Muirhead I once had a professor claim that in 50 years, everyone will be so racially “mixed” and therefore ambiguous, no one will be able to distinguish “what someone is,” so race won’t matter much anymore. As a biracial individual who has…

  • About Hatsumi… with Toronto Director Chris Hope: Part 1 of 3

    About Hatsumi… with Toronto Director Chris Hope: Part 1 of 3 Discover Nikkei 2012-06-27 Norm Masaji Ibuki An extraordinary and beautiful film…exhaustively and passionately researched, both at the level of the filmmaker’s personal history and as an investigation into our national consciousness” —Academy Award® Nominated Director, Atom Egoyan Thus far in 2012, the 70th anniversary…

  • Race in Contemporary Brazil: From Indifference to Inequality

    Brazil’s traditionally agrarian economy, based initially on slave labor and later on rural labor and tenancy arrangements, established inequalities that have not diminished even with industrial development and urban growth. While fertility and infant mortality rates have dropped significantly and life expectancy has increased during the past thirty years, the gaps in mortality between rich…

  • The Superiority of the Mulatto

    The Superiority of the Mulatto American Journal of Sociology Volume 23, Number 1 (July, 1917) pages 83-106 E. B. Reuter (1880-1946) Perhaps the most significant fact regarding the Negro people in America is the degree to which the race has undergone differen- tiation during the period of contact with European civilization. From the low and…

  • Tracee Ellis Ross: ‘That Hurt Like the Bejesus’

    Tracee Ellis Ross: ‘That Hurt Like the Bejesus’ The New York Times 2015-01-22 Tracee Ellis Ross Credit Pej Behdarvand for The New York Times The actress talks with Jenna Wortham about defining her own sense of beauty and humor. It’s awards-show season. Do you like going to the shows? I didn’t actually go to the…

  • Bound Lives: Africans, Indians, and the Making of Race in Colonial Peru by Rachel Sarah O’Toole (review)

    Bound Lives: Africans, Indians, and the Making of Race in Colonial Peru by Rachel Sarah O’Toole (review) Journal of Social History Volume 48, Number 2, Winter 2014 pages 465-466 Erick D. Langer, Professor of Latin American History Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. O’Toole, Rachel Sarah, Bound Lives: Africans, Indians, and the Making of Race in Colonial…

  • ‘Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye,’ by Marie Mutsuki Mockett

    ‘Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye,’ by Marie Mutsuki Mockett Sunday Book Review The New York Times 2015-01-23 Richard Lloyd Parry Mockett, Marie Mutsuki, Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye: A Journey (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2015), 316 pp. Among the many shocking things about tsunamis…

  • U.Va. Poetry Professor Rita Dove’s ‘Sonata Mulattica’ to be Adapted for Film

    U.Va. Poetry Professor Rita Dove’s ‘Sonata Mulattica’ to be Adapted for Film UVA Today Charlottesville, Virginia 2013-05-07 Anne E. Bromley, Associate Little did poet Rita Dove know when she published her book, “Sonata Mulattica,” that it would go beyond rescuing from obscurity a 19th-century, Afro-European violin virtuoso named George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower. Now that book of…