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  • Who gets the last laugh, again?

    Who gets the last laugh, again? Africa is a Country 2013-11-18 Jessica Blatt, Assistant Professor of Political Science Marymount Manhattan College, New York, New York I enjoy seeing a smug, bearded white supremacist get his comeuppance as much as the next guy. (Though the joy of the exuberant lady sitting next to this one is…

  • Families

    Families The New York Times 2013-11-25 Natalie Angier American households have never been more diverse, more surprising, more baffling. In this special issue of Science Times, NATALIE ANGIER takes stock of our changing definition of family. Read the entire article here.

  • (1)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race: A Review and Reflection

    Yaba Blay’s (1)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race (2014) is a beautiful, first-hand look at the true complexities surrounding the ways in which societies and peoples racialize one another and the ways in which these are institutionalized.

  • Whiteness, History, and Comments about George Zimmerman

    Whiteness, History, and Comments about George Zimmerman Andrew Joseph Pegoda, A.B.D. 2013-07-17 Andrew Joseph Pegoda Department of History University of Houston Events and things in history frequently involve what I call the “realms of illogic.” It’s not gonna make sense. “Race” is one of these. This posting is an attempt to address how people are…

  • The Martinican concept of “creoleness”: A multiracial redefinition of culture.

    The Martinican concept of “creoleness”: A multiracial redefinition of culture. Mots Pluriels Number 7, (July 1998): Third Space and Cross-Cultural Identities—Mestissage – Tiers Espace – Identite Beverley Ormerod, Associate Professor of French University of Western Australia In the 1930s, black and coloured intellectuals from the French Caribbean colonies of Martinique, Guadeloupe and Guyane sought for…

  • All in the Family: Interracial Intimacy, Racial Fictions, and the Law

    All in the Family: Interracial Intimacy, Racial Fictions, and the Law California Law Review Circuit Volume 4 (November 2013) pages 179-186 D. Wendy Greene, Professor of Law Cumberland School of Law, Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama Professor Wendy Greene highlights the continued importance of analyzing interracial relationships in the framework of the law in her review…

  • The spectre of race in American medicine

    The spectre of race in American medicine Medical Humanities Volume 32, Issue 2 (2013) pages 137-141 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2013-010374 Mariam O. Fofana Department of Epidemiology; Medical Scientist Training Program Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health / Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Controversies and debates surrounding race have long been a fixture in American medicine. In the…

  • Where “Old” and “New” World Color Meet in Multiracial Asian America

    Where “Old” and “New” World Color Meet in Multiracial Asian America Racism Review 2013-11-18 Sharon Chang, Guest blogger Multiracial Asian Families Rare indeed is the Asian American who has not heard an aunt or grandmother say something like; ‘Don’t go out in the sun. You’ll get too dark’…[Asian countries have] had long-standing preferences for light…

  • For Key And Peele, Biracial Roots Bestow Special Comedic ‘Power’

    For Key And Peele, Biracial Roots Bestow Special Comedic ‘Power’ Fresh Air National Public Radio 2013-11-20 Terry Gross, Host Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele are the duo behind the Comedy Central sketch comedy show Key & Peele. Each has a white mother and black father, and a lot of their comedy is about race: Perhaps…

  • 24,000-Year-Old Body Shows Kinship to Europeans and American Indians

    24,000-Year-Old Body Shows Kinship to Europeans and American Indians The New York Times 2013-11-20 Nicholas Wade The genome of a young boy buried at Mal’ta near Lake Baikal in eastern Siberia some 24,000 years ago has turned out to hold two surprises for anthropologists. The first is that the boy’s DNA matches that of Western…