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  • Census Bureau Establishes National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic and Other Populations United States Census Bureau News Release CB12-195 2012-10-12 The U.S. Census Bureau announced today the establishment of the National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic and Other Populations. The Census Bureau has also named the committee’s members and leadership. The National Advisory Committee will…

  • Under the skin Havard University Gazette 2012-10-12 Aaron Lester, Harvard Correspondent Deep experience informs panelists’ views on mixed-race life in U.S. When Carmen Fields’ future husband asked her to meet his mother, Fields refused. “No way. I didn’t want to be the reason she opened up the front door and dropped the Easter ham,” she…

  • Student-Organized Conference To Focus on ‘Mixed-Race Experience’ Havard University Gazette 2000-04-13 Ken Gewertz, Gazette Staff For many of us, food can be a powerful reminder of who we are and where we come from. But the foods that Rebecca Weisinger ’02 remembers from her family dinner table were a little different from most. “Sometimes my…

  • Black Pride, Democratic Politics: Can They Be Separated in Blacks’ Support of Obama? The Associated Press 2012-10-13 Jesse Washington, National Writer, Race and Ethnicity Surviving slavery, segregation and discrimination has forged a special pride in African-Americans. Now some are saying this hard-earned pride has become prejudice in the form of blind loyalty to President Barack…

  • My Day at the 5th Annual Mixed Roots Film and Literary Festival Gino Michael Pellegrini: Education, Amalgamation, Race, Class & Solidarity 2012-10-14 Gino Pellegrini, Adjunct Assistant Professor of English Pierce College, Woodland Hills, California Saturday morning, June 16, 2012: I take the Metro from North Hollywood to the Tokyo Arts District in Downtown Los Angeles.…

  • Peter Tosh did Not Joke with Words The Jamaica Gleaner Jamaica, West Indies 2012-10-14 Carolyn Cooper, Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica Shortly after Peter Tosh made his last concert appearance in December 1983, I did an interview with him that was published in Pulse magazine. One of…

  • A Vanishing Race Chronicles of Oklahoma Volume 4, Number 1 (June, 1926) pages 100-115 G. A. Crossett, Editor Caddo Herald One of the largest and most intelligent tribes of original American Indians in the United States today is the Choctaws, who inhabit the southeastern portion of Oklahoma. The Choctaws formerly occupied the central and northern…

  • The Mayes Chronicles of Oklahoma Volume 15, Number 1 (March, 1937) pages 56-65 John Bartlett Meserve The saga of the Cherokees, from the dawn of their arrival in the old Indian Territory down to the present, is emphatically one of constant change in their social, economic, and political lives. The influence of the adventurous white…

  • Ai, a Steadfast Poetic Channel of Hard Lives, Dies at 62 The New York Times 2010-03-27 Margalit Fox The prominent American poet Ai, whose work — known for its raw power, jagged edges and unflinching examination of violence and despair — stood as a damning indictment of American society, died on March 20 in Stillwater,…

  • Let’s Not Be Boxed in by Color / Other Americans Help Break Down Racial Barriers “Let’s Not Be Boxed in by Color” The Washington Post, Outlook 1997-06-08 pages C3 “Other Americans Help Break Down Racial Barriers” International Herald Tribune 1997-06-10 page 9 Amitai Etzioni, University Professor and Professor of International Affairs; Director, Institute for Communitarian…