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  • Unrest Over Race Is Testing Obama’s Legacy

    Unrest Over Race Is Testing Obama’s Legacy The New York Times 2014-12-08 Julie Hirschfeld Davis, White House Reporter Michael D. Shear, White House Correspondent WASHINGTON — As crowds of people staged “die-ins” across the country last week to protest the deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of police officers, young African-American activists were…

  • White Anxiety and the Futility of Black Hope

    White Anxiety and the Futility of Black Hope The New York Times 2014-12-05 George Yancy, Professor of Philosophy Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Shannon Sullivan, Professor of Philosophy University of North Carolina, Charlotte This is the third in a series of interviews with philosophers on race that I am conducting for The Stone. This week’s conversation…

  • Class, Race, or Ethnicity Apart? Changing Whiteness and Counting People of Mexican Descent

    Class, Race, or Ethnicity Apart? Changing Whiteness and Counting People of Mexican Descent U.S. History Scene 2013-10-09 Ester Terry University of Pittsburgh In June 2013, Sebastien de la Cruz sang the National Anthem for Games 3 and 4 of the National Basketball Association (NBA) Finals in San Antonio. In July 2013, Marc Anthony sang “God…

  • We aren’t playing the race card; we are analyzing the racialized deck.

    We aren’t playing the race card; we are analyzing the racialized deck. Taking Jesus Seriously The Christian Century: Thinking Critically. Living Faithfully 2014-12-08 Drew G. I. Hart Changing the game and changing our rhetoric around race and racism. I would be rich if I got money for every time a white person told me that…

  • 2014 National Poetry Month Poem of the Day: Fred Wah

    2014 National Poetry Month Poem of the Day: Fred Wah Turnstone Press Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada 2014-04-16 “Waiting for Saskatchewan,” the title poem for the book, arose out of an event that occurred in Nelson, BC on a winter night in the early ’80s. We had been anticipating an exhibition of art from Saskatchewan about to…

  • Transforming Three Sisters: A Hapa Family in Chekhov’s Modern Classic

    Transforming Three Sisters: A Hapa Family in Chekhov’s Modern Classic Asian American Literature: Discourses and Pedagogies Volume 3 (2012): Special Issue: Mixed Heritage Asian American Literature pages 130-146 Elizabeth Liang “All right, let’s agree that this town is backward and vulgar, and let’s suppose now that out of all its thousands of  inhabitants there are…

  • James Baldwin asks ‘How are white Americans so sure they are white?’

    In 1963, James Baldwin wrote two essays that examined the role of race and racism in the history of America. Published in The New Yorker, Baldwin’s first essay, written in the form of a letter to his fourteen-year-old nephew on the 100th anniversary of Emancipation explained “the crux of [his] dispute with [his] country”…

  • Racial divisions still require full attention

    Racial divisions still require full attention The Daily News Journal Murfreesboro, Tennessee 2014-12-01 Editorial Board Harpers Ferry…Montgomery…Little Rock…Birmingham…Selma…Ferguson… Despite some optimism that the United States had evolved into a “post-racial” era, particularly with the election of a black president, events in Ferguson, Missouri, continue to reinforce the reality of a racial divide in this country.…

  • How can you identify as Irish on the census if you are not white?

    How can you identify as Irish on the census if you are not white? Manchester Policy Blogs: Ethnicity Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity University of Manchester, United Kingdom 2014-11-27 Lindsey Garratt, Research Associate The census allows people to identify as Irish only if they are also white. What about the growing number of ethnic minority…

  • We Need to Talk about Race

    We Need to Talk about Race Sociology Volume 48, Number 6 (December 2014) pages 1107-1122 DOI: 10.1177/0038038514521714 Bethan Harries, Research Associate Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity University of Manchester, United Kingdom It is not easy to name racism in a context in which race is almost entirely denied. Despite a recent focus on the ‘silencing’…