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  • For the Movement: Community Education Supporting Multiracial Organizing

    For the Movement: Community Education Supporting Multiracial Organizing Equity & Excellence in Education Volume 38, Issue 2, 2005 pages 145-154 DOI: 10.1080/10665680590935124 Eric Hamako University of Massachusetts, Amherst The multiracial people’s movement in the United States has expanded significantly in the last 10 years (Douglass, 2003). Historically, community-based education programs have supported social movements in…

  • Race as International Identity? ‘Miscegenation’ in the U.S. Occupation of Japan and Beyond

    Race as International Identity? ‘Miscegenation’ in the U.S. Occupation of Japan and Beyond Amerikastudien / American Studies Volume 48, Number 1, Internationalizing U.S. History (2003) pages 61-77 Yukiko Koshiro The article attempts to retrieve the story of the little-known fate of so-called mixed-blood children, those born to American GIs and Japanese women in the aftermath…

  • The Negro Race and European Civilization

    The Negro Race and European Civilization American Journal of Sociology Volume 11, Number 2 (September 1905) pages 145-167 Paul S. Reinsch  (1869-1923), Professor University of Wisconsin While in the past century populations and racial elements which had formerly been far distant from each other have been brought into intimate contact, the twentieth century will witness…

  • Opinion: Black Americans must embrace true colors

    Opinion: Black Americans must embrace true colors In America: You define America. What defines you? Cable News Network (CNN) 2012-12-15 Tiya Miles, Professor of American Culture, Afroamerican and African Studies, and Native American Studies University of Michigan Editor’s note: Historian and author Tiya Miles is a professor at the University of Michigan’s Afroamerican and African…

  • The Democrats’ Demographic Dreams

    The Democrats’ Demographic Dreams The American Prospect 2012-06-14 Jamelle Bouie, Staff Writer Liberals are counting on population trends to doom 
Republicans to a long-term minority. They shouldn’t. If Democrats agree on anything, it’s that they will eventually be on the winning side. The white Americans who tend to vote Republican are shrinking as a percentage…

  • Why The Next President Will Probably Be Black Too

    Why The Next President Will Probably Be Black Too BuzzFeed 2013-01-03 Ben Smith, BuzzFeed Staff If there is anything approaching an iron law of American politics, it’s this: The next president will be a member of the same race as the current one. It’s a rule that has held through 42 of 43 transfers of…

  • Race and Identity in the Dominican Republic: A Complex Topic

    Race and Identity in the Dominican Republic: A Complex Topic CIEE Santiago, DR Service Learning Blog CIEE Study Abroad Council on International Educational Exchange 2012-09-18 Hannah Loppnow St. Norbert College, De Pere, Wisconsin One piece of advice that really resonated with me from the first day of orientation was “put yourself out there.” We were…

  • President Obama on “The View”

    President Obama on “The View” Sojourners: Faith in Action for Social Justice 2010-08-02 Valerie Elverton Dixon Just Peace Theory President Obama visited with the five hosts of the ABC daytime talk show “The View.” People complained. He should have gone to the Boy Scout gathering. The office of the presidency ought to be above such…

  • Nation’s First Asian American Rabbi Inspires Social Change

    Nation’s First Asian American Rabbi Inspires Social Change KoreAm: The Korean American Experience 2011-12-06 Rebecca U. Cho Unorthodox Rabbi As a child, Angela Buchdahl stood out as the lone Asian face in the synagogue and at Jewish camps. Today, she holds the distinction of being the nation’s first Asian American rabbi and is helping to…

  • How Is Biracialism Changing America – And The Jewish community?

    How Is Biracialism Changing America – And The Jewish community? RepairLabs: Resources and strategies for volunteer engagement and Jewish Service-Learning 2012-02-10 Diane Tobin, President Institute for Jewish & Community Research As the parent of a Black Jewish child, I want my son to feel at home in the Jewish community. It seems to me that…