Category: Articles

  • Afro Latinos’ Mixed Identity Can Leave Them Out of the Mix NBC News 2014-02-27 Patricia Guadalupe and Suzanne Gamboa Afro Latino Marco Davis laughed when he recalled the lengths he went to keep in touch with black and Latino alumni groups when he graduated from Yale University. “One year I would put down that I…

  • The Strategies of Forbidden Love: Family across Racial Boundaries in Nineteenth-Century North Carolina Journal of Social History Volume 47, Issue 3 (Spring 2014) pages 612-626 DOI: 10.1093/jsh/sht112 Warren E. Milteer Jr. This article contends that although local beliefs and legal edicts attempted to discourage sexual and familial relationships between women of color and white men…

  • President Obama calls for minority youth outreach programme BBC News 2014-02-27 US President Barack Obama has called for a national campaign to improve opportunities for black and Hispanic boys and young men. Called My Brother’s Keeper, his new initiative aims to overcome the socioeconomic conditions keeping such youth from thriving. The White House said businesses…

  • Dynamic representations of race: processing goals shape race decoding in the fusiform gyri Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Volume 9 Issue 3 (March 2014) pages 326-332 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nss138 Christian Kaul Department of Psychology and Center for Neural Science New York University Kyle G. Ratner Department of Psychology New York University Jay J. Van Bavel, Assistant…

  • A Roanoke Island Colony Remembered Chowan Discovery Group 2014-02-25 Marvin T. Jones, Executive Director The Winton Triangle has ties to the subject of the latest Chowan Discovery-nominated marker, that of the Roanoke Island Freedmen’s Colony. During the Civil War when the colony existed, several Winton Triangle men enlisted in the United States Colored Troops in…

  • Black History Month in Germany German Mission to the United States 2014-02-14 In the United States February has been celebrated as Black History Month for the past four decades or so, with schools, media, institutions and celebrities taking the opportunity to highlight the accomplishments and historical experiences of African Americans. In recent years, Germany has…

  • Malaysians of mixed parentage back deleting ‘race’ in official paperwork The Malay Mail Online Petaling Jaya, Malaysia 2014-02-24 Ushar Daniele PETALING JAYA, Feb 24 — The proposal to remove the race column in all paperwork in the country has been received positively. he Malay Mail yesterday spoke to people on the street and with one…

  • Becoming Yellow: A Short History of Racial Thinking by Michael Keevak (review) China Review International Volume 19, Number 1, 2012 pages 103-105 DOI: 10.1353/cri.2012.0023 Paul Spickard, Professor of History University of California, Santa Barbara Michael Keevak, Becoming Yellow: A Short History of Racial Thinking (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011). 248 pages. Becoming Yellow is a…

  • What’s in a name? ‘Mixed,’ ‘biracial,’ ‘black’ Cable News Network (CNN) 2014-02-19 Martha S. Jones, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Associate Professor of History University of Michigan (CNN) — When the census listed Negro as a race option in 2010, a controversy erupted. My students at the University of Michigan were eager to denounce the term’s…

  • Race, Marriage, and the Law of Freedom: Alabama and Virginia 1860s-1960s Chicago-Kent Law Review Volume 70, Issue 2: Symposium on the Law of Freedom, Part I: Freedom: Personal Liberty and Private Law (1994) pages 371-437 Peter Wallenstein, Professor of History Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University INTRODUCTION In 1966, one hundred years after Congress passed…