Category: Articles

  • Mixed Blessing The New York Times 2008-06-18 Francis Wilkinson, Executive Editor The Week Being from an interracial marriage has shaped Obama’s political stance. Far from the storied hollows of Appalachia, and well before the Rev. Jeremiah Wright lit up the cable news channels or the “elitist” label was fixed to Barack Obama’s lapel right where…

  • Beyond Black and White: Color and Mortality in Post Reconstruction Era North Carolina Explorations in Economic History Published online: 2012-07-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2012.06.002 Tiffany L. Green, Postdoctoral Fellow Health Disparities Research Scholars Training Program Center for Demography and Ecology University of Wisconsin, Madison Tod G. Hamilton, Research Fellow Department of Society, Human Development, and Health School…

  • Honoring Robert Lee Vann The State of Things WUNC 91.5, North Carolina Public Radio 2012-07-10 Frank Stasio, Host Sarah Edwards, Co-Host Guests Marvin Jones Chowan Discovery Group Cash Michaels, Editor, Chief Reporter/Photographer and Columnist The Carolinian North Carolina native Robert Lee Vann was a pioneer of journalism during his lifetime. He served as editor of…

  • Playing the Interracial Card The New York Times 2012-07-12 Kevin Noble Maillard, Associate Professor of Law Syracuse University “The Miscegenation Ball” Source: Smithsonian Museum of American History (1864) Color print of a dance occuring at the Lincoln Central Campaign Club in New York Sept. 22, 1864. A portrait of Lincoln hangs on the wall. Black…

  • How Do Children of Mixed Partnerships Fare in the United Kingdom? Understanding the Implications for Children of Parental Ethnic Homogamy and Heterogamy The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Volume 643, Number 1, September 2012 pages 239-266 DOI: 10.1177/0002716212444853 Lucinda Platt, Professor of Sociology Institute of Education, University of London Many…

  • Black GIs, English women, and ‘brown babies’ (1944-1950) Mix-d: Museum: Timeline Mix-d: 2012-07-10 During the period 1942-45 around one million US servicemen were based in England as part of the preparations for the invasion of Europe in June 1944 and around 130,000 (13%) of these were Black (African American) GIs. This caused endless worry for…

  • British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act (1914) Mix-d: Museum: Timeline Mix-d: 2012-07-10 With the increase of the minority ethnic population in Britain from the turn of the century, popular concerns about interracial relationships grew. The 1914 British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act meant that not only did ‘aliens’ – that is, foreign-born residents,…

  • Commentary: Morgan Freeman’s Misguided “Mixed-Race President” Quote Black Entertainment Television 2012-07-09 Cord Jefferson The legendary Black actor made a silly mistake when he said Obama isn’t a truly Black president, because fewer and fewer truly Black Americans exist. Morgan Freeman is one of the most sought after actors in Hollywood, and for good reason: He’s…

  • Estimating Genetic Ancestry Proportions from Faces PLoS ONE Volume 4, Number 2, e4460 (February 2009) 8 pages DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004460 Yann C. Klimentidis Department of Biostatistics University of Alabama, Birmingham Mark D. Shriver, Associate Professor of Anthropology Pennsylvania State University Ethnicity can be a means by which people identify themselves and others. This type of identification…

  • The report provides a bleak assessment of life in post-war South Carolina, particularly for union men and blacks who “are at the mercy of a set of wretches, as unprincipled as they are cruel.”