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  • Daughters tell stories of ‘war brides’ despised back home and in the U.S. The Japan Times 2014-10-05 Lucy Alexander Hiroko Furukawa was working as a sales assistant at the PX U.S. military supply store in Ginza in 1950 when she met a GI named Samuel Tolbert. Shortly afterwards, Hiroko and Samuel found themselves married and…

  • Cramblett vs. Midwest Sperm Bank Marley-Vincent Lindsey 2014-10-07 Marley-Vincent Lindsey I. Narratives and Political Order On September 29, Jennifer L. Cramblett filed a suit against the Midwest Sperm Bank for “Wrongful Birth and Breach of Warranty against Defendant.” Where the expecting couple had picked a “blond hair blue-eyed individual” to resemble the non-biological partner, the…

  • Indie Groundbreaking Book: (1)ne Drop Independent Publisher October 2014 Craig Manning Western Michigan University Landmark Photo Essay Book Seeks to “Shift the Lens on Race” Has the social and political mindset on race in 2014 changed from where it was 100 years ago? What is the definition of “Blackness” in the modern age? These are…

  • Human genetic research, race, ethnicity and the labeling of populations: recommendations based on an interdisciplinary workshop in Japan BMC Medical Ethics Volume 15, Issue 1, December 2014 DOI: 10.1186/1472-6939-15-33 Yasuko Takezawa, Kazuto Kato, Hiroki Oota, Timothy Caulfield, Akihiro Fujimoto, Shunwa Honda, Naoyuki Kamatani, Shoji Kawamura, Kohei Kawashima, Ryosuke Kimura, Hiromi Matsumae, Ayako Saito, Patrick E…

  • Census Bureau Names 10 New Members to National Advisory Committee United States Census Bureau Release Number: CB14-186 2014-10-06 Public Information Office 301-763-3030 The U.S. Census Bureau today announced 10 new members to serve on the Census Bureau’s National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic and Other Populations. The National Advisory Committee advises the Census Bureau on…

  • Winner of the Vic Premier’s Award for Indigenous Writing.The story of an urban-based high achieving Aboriginal woman working to break down stereotypes and build bridges between black and white Australia.

  • DANCE/CHANGE: The Mixed-Race Polynesian Body in Settler and Indigenous Performance University of California, Riverside 900 University Avenue Riverside, California 92521 Athletics & Dance Building Dance Studio Theatre, ATHD 102 Tuesday, 2014-10-21, 16:10-18-00 PDT (Local Time) Maile Arvin, UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Ethnic Studies University of California, Riverside The Mixed-Race Polynesian Body in Settler…

  • Student Blog: Why questioning the existence of Afro-Mexicans is problematic Baker Institute Blog Insight and analysis from the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University 2014-08-25 Sharae DeWitt Rice University, Houston, Texas Race has been closely tied to Mexican identity since the Mexican Revolution in 1910. The national ideology is centered…

  • Black and Belgian: Navigating Multiracial Identities in Ghent, Belguim Afropean: Adventures in Afro Europe 2014-10-01 Walter Thompson-Hernandez Introduction What does it mean to be Black and multiracial in Belgium? How does sub-Saharan African culture and experiences impact the lives of multiracial people or Afropeans in Belgium? How influential is the U.S. Black experience in the…

  • Afro-Nordic Landscapes: Equality and Race in Northern Europe Routledge 2014-04-02 264 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-89743-3 Edited by: Michael McEachrane Foreword by: Paul Gilroy, Professor of American and English Literature King’s College, London Afro-Nordic Landscapes: Equality and Race in Northern Europe challenges a view of Nordic societies as homogenously white, and as human rights champions that…