Category: Articles

  • De Blasio Responds to Lhota’s Doomsday Ad With a Cheery One Politicker 2013-10-17 Colin Campbell Tale of Two Ads A day after Joe Lhota released an ad warning of apocalyptic results if rival Bill de Blasio is elected mayor–complete with photos of race riots and corpses–Mr. de Blasio is out with a new spot of…

  • Fitting Into the Right Box: Multiracial America on the Rise Brown Political Review 2013-10-18 Meg Sullivan As swimmer Michael Phelps knows, one of the highest priorities of food corporations is maintaining their squeaky clean mainstream appeal. This usually involves companies giving wide berth to any manner of controversy, but Cheerios ignored this policy four months…

  • Blow to multiple human species idea BBC News 2013-10-17 Melissa Hogenboom, Science Reporter The idea that there were several different human species walking the Earth two million years ago has been dealt a blow. Instead, scientists say early human fossils found in Africa and Eurasia may have been part of the same species. Writing in…

  • An Essentially American Narrative The New York Times 2013-10-11 Nelson George A Discussion of Steve McQueen’s Film ‘12 Years a Slave’ Amid comic book epics, bromantic comedies and sequels of sequels, films about America’s tortured racial history have recently emerged as a surprisingly lucrative Hollywood staple. In the last two years, “The Help,” “Lincoln,””Django Unchained,””42”…

  • Playwright Sarah Rutherford: ‘Middle-class, mixed-race families are invisible on our stages’ What’s on Stage London 2013-10-10 Editorial Staff As her new play Adult Supervision premieres at the Park Theatre, playwright Sarah Rutherford discusses multiculturalism in modern Britain What’s Adult Supervision about? It’s set in 2008 and it’s about a white ex-lawyer, Natasha, who’s adopted two…

  • Who stole all the black women from Britain? Black Girl Dancing at Lughnasa 2013-10-17 Emma Dabiri, Teaching Fellow Africa Department, School of African and Oriental Studies, London Visual Sociology Ph.D. Researcher, Goldsmiths University of London …Here in the UK, the  visibility of black women in representations of mainstream Black British culture is such that you…

  • Rethinking race, racism, identity and ideology in Latin America Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 36,  Issue 10, 2013 (Special Issue: Rethinking Race, Racism, Identity, and Ideology in Latin America) pages 1485-1489 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2013.808357 Tanya Golash-Boza, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Merced Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Professor of Sociology Duke University, Durham, North Carolina This special issue…

  • The Impact of Internet Publishing and Online Communications on Mixed-Race Discourses The Asian American Literary Review Special Issue on Mixed Race, Volume 4, Issue 2 (Fall 2013) Mixed Race is an Inbox: pages 127-136 Steven F. Riley, Creator MixedRaceStudies.org: Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience Glenn C. Robinson, Creator MixedAmericanLife.us: Mixed Culture | Mixed…

  • Special Issue on Mixed Race [The Asian American Literary Review] The Asian American Literary Review 2013-08-06 AALR’s special issue on mixed race, coming in Fall 2013, is not simply a reexamination of race or a survey of mixed voices, important as both are. We envision our role as that of provocateur–inspiring new conversations and cross-pollinations,…

  • Booker, Winning Rocky Senate Bid, Gets a Job to Fit His Profile The New York Times 2013-0-16 Kate Zernike Mayor Cory A. Booker of Newark easily won New Jersey’s special Senate election on Wednesday, finally rising to an office that measures up to his national profile. He will arrive in Washington already one of the…