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  • Rejuvenated Obama reelected as president after bruising campaign

    Rejuvenated Obama reelected as president after bruising campaign The Washington Post 2011-11-07 David A. Fahrenthold Barack Obama was elected to a second presidential term Tuesday, defeating Republican Mitt Romney by reassembling the political coalition that boosted him to victory four years ago and remaking himself from a hopeful uniter into a determined fighter for middle-class…

  • Divided U.S. Gives Obama More Time

    Divided U.S. Gives Obama More Time The New York Times 2012-11-06 Jeff Zeleny and Jim Rutenberg Barack Hussein Obama was re-elected president of the United States on Tuesday, overcoming powerful economic headwinds, a lock-step resistance to his agenda by Republicans in Congress and an unprecedented torrent of advertising as a divided nation voted to give…

  • President Barack Obama defeats Romney to win re-election

    President Barack Obama defeats Romney to win re-election BBC News 2012-11-07 President Barack Obama has been re-elected to a second term, defeating Republican challenger Mitt Romney. America’s first black president secured more than the 270 votes in the electoral college needed to win. In his victory speech before supporters in Chicago, Mr Obama said he…

  • Han Suyin Dies; Wrote Sweeping Fiction

    Han Suyin Dies; Wrote Sweeping Fiction The New York Times 2012-11-05 Margalit Fox Han Suyin, a physician and author known for writing the sweeping novel that became the Hollywood film “Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing” and for her outspoken championing of China under Mao Zedong, died on Friday at her home in Lausanne, Switzerland. As…

  • Han Suyin’s Many-Splendored World

    Han Suyin’s Many-Splendored World The New York Times 1985-01-25 Georgia Dullea Being remembered as the author of  ”A Many-Splendored Thing,” the semiautobiographical love story of a Eurasian physician and a British journalist in Hong Kong, which inspired a sentimental movie and an even more sentimental song, is a bore, says Han Suyin, 33 years and…

  • Social workers ‘at rock bottom’ over issue of race and adoption

    Social workers ‘at rock bottom’ over issue of race and adoption The Guardian 2012-11-06 Hugh Muir, Diary Editor Professional body to tell Lords committee that political stereotyping has hampered efforts to rehome vulnerable children Morale among social workers has been driven to rock bottom by cuts, targets and ministers making the issue of race and…

  • Racial Framing and Superstorm Sandy: A Black Mother Begs for Help While Her Children Drown

    Racial Framing and Superstorm Sandy: A Black Mother Begs for Help While Her Children Drown We Are Respectable Negroes 2012-11-04 Chauncey DeVega Superstorm Sandy has made the divisions of class in the New York City area very clear. The “haves” are able to muster the resources to somehow survive. The “have nots” are left to…

  • Quilombismo and the Afro-Brazilian Quest for Citizenship

    Quilombismo and the Afro-Brazilian Quest for Citizenship Journal of Black Studies Volume 43, Number 8 (November 2012) pages 847-871 DOI: 10.1177/0021934712461794 Niyi Afolabi, Professor of African & African Diaspora Studies University of Texas, Austin Between the radicalism of Black Brazilian movements of the 1980s, an aftermath of the negation and rejection of the myth of…

  • Fanshen’s Farewell to Mixed Chicks Chat

    Fanshen’s Farewell to Mixed Chicks Chat Fanshen Cox 2012-11-05 In June 2012 we recorded the final episode of Mixed Chicks Chat. Creating and carrying out the podcast each week for the past five years provided me with a consistent, safe, nurturing space in which to share and learn more about the Mixed experience.  I have…

  • Aliens Admitted Here!

    Aliens Admitted Here! Evening Post Wellington, New Zealand Volume LVI, Issue 96 1898-10-20 Page 4 Source: Papers Past, National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa The House cannot be congratulated on the treatment it meted out last night to the Immigration Restriction Bill, and the Premier showed a lamentable lack of power…