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  • Talkin’ Race with Laura and Wei Ming

    Talkin’ Race with Laura and Wei Ming The Magic Mulatto: Bringing the fine art of Race Talk straight to the people 2013-03-26 Brett Russell Coleman, Doctoral Student of Community & Prevention Research University of Illinois, Chicago “In 1969, we weren’t at war with China.” If that sentence leaves you perplexed in any way, you need…

  • Race and the Census: The “Negro” Controversy

    Race and the Census: The “Negro” Controversy Pew Research: Social & Demographic Trends Pew Research Center 2010-01-21 D’Vera Cohn, Senior Writer The topic of racial identification on census forms has a long, fascinating history, which has generated fresh debate as the 2010 Census begins. Why, some ask, does the form include the word “Negro,” along…

  • Paralegal claims discrimination by law firm because of mixed-race heritage

    Paralegal claims discrimination by law firm because of mixed-race heritage The Southeast Texas Record: Southeast Texas’ Legal Journal Beaumont, Texas 2013-03-25 John Suayan, Galveston Bureau HOUSTON – Montgomery County resident Darren Chew claims he was subjected to racial discrimination while working for a collections law firm and has filed a lawsuit. Recent court papers filed…

  • Mixing it Up

    Mixing it Up Salon 2001-03-08 Suzy Hansen Alabama just legalized black-white marriage. An expert talks about why it took so long and the American obsession with racial purity. In November 2000, after a statewide vote in a special election, Alabama became the last state to overturn a law that was an ugly reminder of America’s…

  • The cradle to the grave: Reflections on race thinking

    The cradle to the grave: Reflections on race thinking thesis eleven: critical theory and historical sociology Volume 115, Number 1 (April 2013) pages 43-57 DOI: 10.1177/0725513612470533 Gerhard Maré, Professor of Sociology University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa Despite a constitutional and oft-stated political commitment to an undefined notion of non-racialism, South Africans continue to operate…

  • Who will benefit from AR-TPD “cost-savings”?

    Who will benefit from AR-TPD “cost-savings”? Two or More: Mixed thoughts about the Census NAC 2013-03-24 Eric Hamako Eric Hamako is one of 32 members of the Census Bureau’s National Advisory Committee (NAC) on Race, Ethnic, and Other Populations, 2012-2014. This blog is intended to 1) share updates and Eric’s perspectives on the NAC, 2)…

  • Race, Religion Collide in 2012 Campaign

    Race, Religion Collide in 2012 Campaign The Associated Press 2012-05-05 Jesse Washington, National Writer, Race and Ethnicity Rachel Zoll, National Religion Writer How unthinkable it was, not so long ago, that a presidential election would pit a candidate fathered by an African against another condemned as un-Christian. And yet, here it is: Barack Obama vs.…

  • CNN’s Soledad O’Brien on Her Entrepreneurial TV Future

    CNN’s Soledad O’Brien on Her Entrepreneurial TV Future Bloomberg Businessweek 2013-03-07 Soledad O’Brien as told to Diane Brady I never really hesitated about going to Starting Point [which premiered on Jan. 2, 2012]. I thought there was an opportunity to get beyond the platitudes of “Yes, Medicare! No, Medicare!” and actually look at the Congressional Budget…

  • Forecast of Miscegenation

    Forecast of Miscegenation Los Angeles Herald 1906-07-24 page 6, column 3 Source: Library of Congress: Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers In the course of a sermon delivered last Sunday before n local negro audience. Bishop Hamilton of the Methodist church said: “It might create a sensation if I should say a union of the races…

  • For Blacks in Cuba, the Revolution Hasn’t Begun

    For Blacks in Cuba, the Revolution Hasn’t Begun The New York Times 2013-03-23 Roberto Zurbano, Editor and Publisher Casa de las Américas Publishing House Translated from Spanish by Kristina Cordero CHANGE is the latest news to come out of Cuba, though for Afro-Cubans like myself, this is more dream than reality. Over the last decade,…