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  • Clean comic standing

    Clean comic standing The Asian Age 2014-12-07 Vishav Having performed for some well-known names including US President Barack Obama, Indian-Japanese comedian Dan Nainan comes to India with some clean comedy He has performed for the US President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Steve Wozniak and many others. He has made them all roll with…

  • ‘Pelo Malo’ Is A Rare Look Into Latin American Race Relations

    ‘Pelo Malo’ Is A Rare Look Into Latin American Race Relations Morning Edition National Public Radio 2014-12-10 Jasmine Garsd, Reporter and Host NPR Music’s Alt.Latino Actor Samuel Lange Zambrano plays Junior, a boy who becomes obsessed with relaxing his hair. Courtesy of the artist “Pelo Malo” means “bad hair” in Spanish. It’s a term that…

  • Racecraft: Stories of Racial Passing

    THE VERY NOTION of racial “passing” implies a test. Those who believed clear racial categorization was possible might test for race by measuring physical traits to indicate “blood purity”: slight physical traits that could be identified, such as the half-moon of a nail bed or the whites of ones eyes.

  • How Racists and Partisans Exploit the Age of Obama

    How Racists and Partisans Exploit the Age of Obama The Atlantic 2014-12-11 Norm Ornstein Since 2008, the Democratic Party has increasingly become the home of minorities, while the Republican Party draws its support from whites. One of my fondest memories was spending four days in February 1977 as a staffer sitting on the Senate floor,…

  • Rethinking 21st Century Racism on the Way Home

    Rethinking 21st Century Racism on the Way Home GeneWatch Council for Responsible Genetics Volume 27, Issue 2 (May-July 2014) Victoria Massie, Ph.D. Candidate Department of Anthropology University of California, Berkeley Returning home from fieldwork can be difficult when you find yourself caught between an unintended call back to your project and the impending reality that…

  • Brute Ideology

    Brute Ideology Dissent Fall 2014 Walter Johnson, Winthrop Professor of History; Professor of African and African American Studies; Director, Charles Warren Center for the Study of American History Harvard University Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life by Barbara J. Fields and Karen E. Fields. Verso, 2012, 310 pp. The Problem of Slavery in…

  • The African Genome Variation Project shapes medical genetics in Africa

    The African Genome Variation Project shapes medical genetics in Africa Nature: International Weekly Journal of Science Published online: 2014-12-03 15 pages DOI: 10.1038/nature13997 Deepti Gurdasani Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Genome Campus Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom et. al. Given the importance of Africa to studies of human origins and disease susceptibility, detailed characterization of African genetic…

  • Justice Alito’s Dissent in Loving v. Virginia

    Justice Alito’s Dissent in Loving v. Virginia Boston College Law Review Volume 55, Issue 5 (November 2014) pages 1563-1611 Christopher R. Leslie, Chancellor’s Professor of Law University of California, Irvine In 1967, in Loving v. Virginia, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously struck down miscegenation statutes, which criminalized interracial marriage, as unconstitutional. In 2013, the Court…

  • UNPOPULAR OPINION: 6 Reasons Why Your Utopic Vision for a Mixed-Race Future is My Nightmare

    Guess what? One day, when we’re all mixed race, racism won’t magically disappear.

  • New doc on Shadeism doesn’t make the cut

    New doc on Shadeism doesn’t make the cut Mixed In Canada 2014-12-08 Rema Tavares Debuting November 10th, 2014 on the CBC’s free preview on their documentary channel, Hue: A Matter of Colour opens with the narrator and main subject, Vic Sarin, discussing his relationship to his mixed-race family (or if anything lack thereof). This movie,…