Category: Articles

  • Jewish tent widens as diversity grows The Chicago Tribune 2014-12-16 Bonnie Miller Rubin, Reporter Ellen Zemel (left) lends a hand for a symbolic lighting of a menorah for Hanukkah during a party for parents and children of Project Esther: The Chicago Jewish Adoption Network of the Jewish Child & Family Services, at the Elain Kersten…

  • “The Double Curse of Sex and Color”: Robert Purvis and Human Rights Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography Volume 121 [CXXI], Number 1-2, January/April 1997 pages 53-76 Margaret Hope Bacon (1921-2011) In 1869 A NATIONAL WOMAN’S SUFFRAGE convention was held for the first time in Washington, D.C. The Fourteenth Amendment had recently been ratified and the Fifteenth…

  • Anomaly dir. by Jessica Chen Drammeh (review) African Studies Review Volume 57, Number 3, December 2014 pages 274-275 Manouchka Kelly Labouba, USC Provost’s PhD Fellow Critical Studies School of Cinematic Arts University of Southern California Anomaly is a personal documentary featuring mixed-raced people who discuss the complexities and challenges of defining their identity across the different…

  • How America will look in 2060, in 7 graphs The Washington Post 2014-12-16 Philip Bump The Census Bureau recently released its 2014 population projections, gaming out the next 45 years of population growth and changes in the United States. For those of us who pay particular attention to the composition of the population (because we…

  • New Projections Point to a Majority Minority Nation in 2044 Brookings Instituion Washington, D.C. 2014-12-12 William H. Frey, Senior Fellow Metropolitan Policy Program New population projections released this week by the Census Bureau indicate that the U.S. population will become “majority minority” in 2044. At that time, whites will make up 49.7 percent of the…

  • On Being Non-White, But Passing Terribly Well Everyday Feminism 2014-05-08 Patricia Gutierrez Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania “Psst… Hey, Patty! You speak Spanish? Ignoring me? Hey! You speak Spanish?” P.E., third period, seventh grade. Every time Ricardo saw me, he would ask me the same question. At first, I would answer yes, but he would always…

  • Caught in the Middle: Defensive Responses to IAT Feedback Among Whites, Blacks, and Biracial Black/Whites Social Psychological and Personality Science Published online before print: 2014-12-15 DOI: 10.1177/1948550614561127 Jennifer L. Howell Department of Psychology University of Florida Sarah E. Gaither, Provost’s Career Enhancement Postdoctoral Scholar Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture University of…

  • Genetic diversity of Sub-Saharan Africa revealed BBC News 2014-12-04 Rebecca Morelle, Science Correspondent Scientists have completed a comprehensive study of genetic diversity in Sub-Saharan Africa. The African Genome Variation Project analysed the DNA of 1,800 people living across the continent. The data is helping scientists to understand how susceptibility to disease varies across the region…

  • We Named Our Son Lincoln: A Testimony Against Racial Injustice ChicagoNow: The Family Table Chicago, Illinois 2014-12-08 Amy Negussie Lincoln Park, Chicago I have been debating writing about race & Ferguson the few weeks since the announcement was made that Darren Wilson was not indicted. Then came the further blow of the Eric Gardner case.…

  • Immigration, Ethnicity, and National Identity in Brazil, 1808 to the Present by Jeffrey Lesser (review) Journal of Interdisciplinary History Volume 45, Number 3, Winter 2015 pages 449-451 Samuel L. Baily, Professor Emeritus of History Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Jeffrey Lesser, Immigration, Ethnicity, and National Identity in Brazil, 1808 to the Present (Cambridge,…