Category: Articles

  • Preference and prejudice: Does intermarriage erode negative ethno-racial attitudes between groups in Spain? Ethnicities Published online before print 2016-03-28 DOI: 10.1177/1468796816638404 Dan Rodríguez-García, Associate Professor Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Miguel Solana-Solana Department of Geography Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Miranda J. Lubbers, Ramón y Cajal Researcher…

  • Haiti, the Archive, and the Historical Imagination African American Intellectual History Society 2016-03-13 Brandon Bryd, Assistant Professor of History Mississippi State University John Mercer Langston Mathew Brady – Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Brady-Handy Photograph Collection. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpbh.00690. CALL NUMBER: LC-BH83- 30771 In the fall of 1877, John Mercer Langston laid on his bed…

  • I’m Irish but I’m not white. Why is that still a problem as we celebrate the Easter Rising? The Guardian 2016-03-29 Emma Dabiri With an Irish mother and Nigerian father, I grew up singing Irish rebel songs. But the racism I experienced was not part of the dreams of 1916’s revolutionaries I grew up singing…

  • The Coiled Serpent: An Interview with the Poetry Anthology’s Creators La Bloga Monday, 2016-03-28 Daniel A. Olivas As already discussed here on La Bloga in a lovely review by Olga García Echeverría, Tía Chucha Press will publish this week a landmark poetry anthology, The Coiled Serpent: Poets Arising from the Cultural Quakes and Shifts of…

  • What Is Critical Race Theory? Harvard Magazine 2016-03-22 Marina Bolotnikova Khiara Bridges Photograph courtesy of Khiara Bridges RACIAL-JUSTICE ACTIVISTS at Harvard Law School (HLS) won one of the largest public battles over the school’s legacy this month, when the administration agreed to abandon the existing HLS shield. The shield was modeled after the crest of…

  • W.T. Jones — Carthage’s best-kept secret: From slave to industrialist in the South The Courier-Tribune Ashboro, North Carolina 2016-03-15 Judi Brinegar (Contributed photo) He was born the son of a slave and her white owner in 1833. By time time of his death in 1910, William T. Jones was one of the prominent business owners…

  • What Obama’s visit means for Cuba’s national conversation about race The Los Angeles Times 2016-03-21 Kate Linthicum, Contact Reporter In recent years, Afro-Cuban intellectuals have started gathering in a cramped Havana apartment to discuss a topic long considered off-limits in Cuba: race. Fidel Castro’s communist revolution 60 years ago promised to wipe out racial divisions…

  • Acknowledging that they are certainly not the first to do so, four scientists, Michael Yudell, Dorothy Roberts, Rob Desalle, and Sarah Tishkoff recently called for the phasing out of the use of the concept/term “race” in biological science…

  • Multiethnic student group Mixed receives 2016 Perkins Prize Cornell Chronicle Ithaca, New York 2016-03-17 Nancy Doolittle In 2015 members of the student club Mixed at Cornell created the print and digital Cornell Hapa Book Facebook page, featuring photographs and stories of 60 self-identified multiracial students, staff and faculty who answered the question, “What does being…

  • Six-year-old taken from California foster family under Indian Child Welfare Act The Guardian 2016-03-22 The Associated Press in Santa Clarita, California Lexi, who has lived with the foster family for years, was removed by a court order which says her Native American heritage requires her to live with Utah relatives A six-year-old girl who spent…