Category: Articles

  • Malia Bouattia’s election as NUS president proves deeply divisive The Guardian 2016-04-22 Jessica Elgot At the NUS conference, Bouattia won on the first round. Photograph: NUS/PA Jewish student groups alarmed by her election, but the first black Muslim woman in the role has nerves of steel, and young activists love her for that It is…

  • Toward a critical multiracial theory in education International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education Volume 29, Issue 6, 2016 pages 795-813 DOI: 10.1080/09518398.2016.1162870 Jessica C. Harris, Multi-Term Lecturer Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies University of Kansas This manuscript lays the foundation for a critical multiracial theory (MultiCrit) in education. The author uses extant…

  • Ep 10 – Thriving as a Social Media Activist Black Women Who Lead 2015-11-29 Marsha Philitas, Host Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Postdoctoral Fellow & Visiting Scholar Department of Physics; MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics Massachusetts Institute of Technology In this episode, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, the 63rd Black American woman to earn a…

  • Moral Judgments of Racial Passing Sponsored Research Lewis & Clark College Portland, Oregon December 2015 The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) has awarded Assistant Professor of Psychology Diana Leonard a grant from the Grants-in-Aid program. These funds will support Dr. Leonard’s new collaborative research project, “Moral Judgments of Racial Passing: Role…

  • From multiracial children to gender identity, what some demographers are studying now Pew Research Center 2016-04-08 D’Vera Cohn, Senior Writer/Editor The nation’s largest annual demography conference, held in Washington, D.C., last week, featured new research on topics including couples who live in separate homes, children of multiracial couples, transgender Americans, immigration law enforcement and how…

  • Will Jawando Doesn’t Have To Be The Next Obama MTV News 2016-04-18 Jamil Smith, Senior National Correspondent There are rules for knocking on someone’s door while campaigning. And Will Jawando, a few weeks back, broke a big one. “Rule 101 in canvassing,” he told MTV News, “is that you don’t go inside.” This makes sense.…

  • Boris Johnson’s Essay on Obama and Churchill Touches Nerve Online The New York Times 2016-04-22 Sewell Chan, International News Editor LONDON — Hours after President Obama landed in London to urge Britons to vote to remain in the European Union, Mayor Boris Johnson, arguably the most visible leader of the campaign for Britain to leave…

  • This is not a joke, but it starts like one: two men walk into an office. They have come to pitch an idea to a Hollywood mogul, an idea for a blockbuster movie. Sort of. Their idea is a docu-drama on George Washington Carver.

  • “Passing” “Presenting” & the Troubled Language of Mixed Race Multiracial Asian Families: thinking about race, families, children, and the intersection of mixed ID/Asian 2016-04-21 Sharon H. Chang I’m a light-skinned mixed race Asian/white woman. I don’t deny it. On my lightest day, in the deep of winter, under cover of endless Seattle clouds, I could…

  • Ninety years ago, writer Carl Van Vechten published a novel intended to be a celebration of Harlem, which at the time was experiencing a budding literary, artistic, and intellectual movement that sparked a new cultural identity for Black America.