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  • “No Rainbow Families” and the Problem with Race-Based Reproduction Policies

    “No Rainbow Families” and the Problem with Race-Based Reproduction Policies Impact Ethics: Making a Difference in Bioethics 2014-09-08 Catherine Clune-Taylor, Doctoral Candidate Department of Philosophy University of Alberta, Canada Catherine Clune-Taylor suggests that we should target institutional and interpersonal racism rather than restrict individual reproductive choice A July 2014 Calgary Herald article revealed that Calgary’s…

  • Marina Silva: The political dynamo who has electrified the election season and wants to be Brazil’s first black woman president

    Marina Silva: The political dynamo who has electrified the election season and wants to be Brazil’s first black woman president Black Women of Brazil: The site dedicated to Brazilian women of African descent 2014-09-05 Marina Silva: a pioneer in politics By Primeiros Negros, José Eustáquio Diniz Alves, and Luciana Lima The first black woman candidate…

  • The Penumbral Spaces of Nella Larsen’s Passing: Undecidable bodies, mobile identities, and the deconstruction of racial boundaries

    The Penumbral Spaces of Nella Larsen’s Passing: Undecidable bodies, mobile identities, and the deconstruction of racial boundaries Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography Volume 13, Issue 3, 2006 pages 227-246 DOI: 10.1080/09663690600700972 Perry L. Carter, Assistant Professor of Human Geography Texas Tech University Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel, Passing, is a psychological drama…

  • Michele Norris to visit MSU Sept. 15

    Michele Norris to visit MSU Sept. 15 Michigan State University Today 2014-09-03 Award-winning journalist and National Public Radio contributor Michele Norris will visit MSU Sept. 15 to speak about her best-selling memoir, “The Grace of Silence,” one of the three selections in this year’s One Book, One Community program. This year’s OBOC program is coordinated…

  • Black Dox: Father Figure

    Black Dox: Father Figure By Blacks: Canadian Black owned everything 2014-09-04 Nicole Franklin Zun Lee Father Figure – Exploring Alternate Notions of Black Fatherhood Photographer: Zun Lee www.zunlee.com IG, Facebook: zunleephoto Twitter: @zunleephoto Project Timeframe: September 2011 – present Publisher/Contact/Pre-order: Ceibafoto LLC Book Release: September 19, 2014. Awards: Named on “PDN 30 2014,” Photo District…

  • Between two worlds

    Between two worlds The Guardian/The Observer 2003-04-05 Geraldine Bedell Britain has one of the fastest-growing mixed-race populations – but many people are still hostile towards interracial couples. We asked some of them how their lives have been affected During the 1991 Gulf war, Richard Littlejohn wrote in the Sun that British women married to Iraqis…

  • Will Brazil elect Marina Silva as the world’s first Green president?

    Will Brazil elect Marina Silva as the world’s first Green president? The Guardian/The Observer 2014-08-30 Jonathan Watts, Latin America Correspondent Born into a poor, mixed-race Amazon family, Marina Silva is on the verge of a stunning election win after taking over her party It started with the national anthem and ended with a rap. In…

  • Transracial Adoption – No Longer a Black and White Issue

    Transracial Adoption – No Longer a Black and White Issue Afropean: Adveures in Afro Europe 2014-09-03 Nat Illumine N.b. This article is based on research conducted by the author for an undergraduate dissertation entitled ‘A Political Minefield: Transracial Adoption Policy and the Mixed Race Experience’ (2013) alongside a British Association of Adoption and Fostering conference…

  • Faces of the Democratic Future

    Faces of the Democratic Future The American Prospect 2014-09-04 Gabriel Arana, Senior Editor Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux Elaine Teng, Assistant to the Editor The New Republic Young leaders on the future of their party Demographers and political prognosticators like to talk about the rising “Obama electorate.” Majority-minority, more liberal on social and financial issues alike than their…

  • Market-style reforms widen racial divide in Cuba

    Market-style reforms widen racial divide in Cuba Reuters 2014-09-02 (Reuters) – Cuba’s experiment with free-market reforms has unintentionally widened the communist-led island’s racial divide and allowed white Cubans to regain some of the economic advantages built up over centuries. Under President Raúl Castro, who took over from his brother Fidel Castro in 2008, Cuba has…