Category: Articles

  • While the William Shatner era of Star Trek isn’t exactly the first thing that springs to mind as a predecessor of the “It Gets Better” anti-bullying movement, Buzzfeed’s got an excerpt from the advice pages of a 1968 teen magazine called FaVE displays Leonard Nimoy’s sensitivity to the plight of one particular young woman.

  • Eugenics in South America Eugenical News Volume 7, Number 3 (March, 1922) pages 17-42 Reginald G. Harris Ever since the rediscovery of Mendel’s laws of inheritance plant and animal breeders have been occupied with conducting experiments on a large number of widely varying types of organisms. These experiments hare brought to light the method of…

  • Lyn Dickens relates her experiences of being a young Eurasian woman in Australia

  • (Mixed) Racial formation in Aotearoa/New Zealand: framing biculturalism and ‘mixed race’ through categorisation Kotuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online Volume 7, Issue 1, (May 2012) DOI: 10.1080/1177083X.2012.670650 pages 1-13 Zarine L. Rocha, Research Scholar Department of Sociology National University of Singapore This paper explores racial formation in Aotearoa/New Zealand, and the impacts of…

  • Demographic Demagoguery: Gregory Rodriguez’s views on race and the census just don’t add up MixedRaceStudies.org 2011-04-08 Steven F. Riley Gregory Rodriguez’s editorial titled “President Obama: Black and more so” or “President Obama: At odds with clear demographic trends toward multiracial pride” in the April 4, 2011 edition of the Los Angeles Times reveals the destructive hubris…

  • President Obama: Black and more so Los Angeles Times 2011-04-04 Gregory Rodriguez By checking ‘black’ as his race on the census form, President Obama is at odds with clear demographic trends toward multiracial pride. The number of Americans identifying as both white and black jumped 134% in 10 years. It could have been a historic…

  • Who’s Black, Who’s Not, and Who Cares? Uptown Magazine 2011-11-02 Yaba Blay, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania “What are you?” It’s a question I have never been asked. I am Black. Period. The color of my skin is reflective of my Ghanaian ancestry and by its dark tone, everyone I encounter…

  • Integration or Fragmentation? Racial Diversity and the American Future Demography Published online: 2013-02-26 DOI: 10.1007/s13524-013-0197-1 Daniel T. Lichter, Professor of Policy Analysis and Management and Sociology Cornell University Over the next generation or two, America’s older, largely white population will increasingly be replaced by today’s disproportionately poor minority children. All future growth will come from…

  • Black and Blue: The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism by John Hoberman [Matt Wood Review] TriQuarterly: a journal of writing, art, and cultural inquiry from Northwestern University 2013-02-04 Matt Wood, Book Review Editor We’ve heard the statistics on black and white mortality rates in the United States. Black infants are up to three times…

  • “If I’m lucky enough to have children, I won’t tell them that Barack Obama was America’s first black president.”