Category: Articles

  • President Obama’s basketball love affair has roots in Hawaii high school team The Washington Post 2012-06-09 David Maraniss To say that President Obama loves basketball understates the role of the sport in his life. He has been devoted to the game for 40 years now, ever since the father he did not know and never…

  • Obama’s alliance with the left is an uneasy one The Washington Post 2012-06-09 Peter Wallsten President Obama bristles when he is the target of activist tactics he once used Barack Obama entered the stately Roosevelt Room and assumed his customary spot. Many of the nation’s leading immigration advocates had been waiting for him inside the…

  • Black and white student ruling in a land of rainbows University World News Issue 224, 2012-06-03 Chrissie Long While there appears to be little question that Brazil’s black community has been at a disadvantage regarding degree attainment, a ruling by the country’s top court upholding affirmative action in universities has sparked debate over whether the…

  • Miscegenation and “the Dicta of Race and Class”: The Rhinelander Case and Nella Larsen’s Passing MFS Modern Fiction Studies Volume 36, Number 4, Winter 1990 DOI: 10.1353/mfs.0.1034 pages 523-529 Mark J. Madigan, Professor / Fulbright Program Advisor in English Nazareth College, Rochester, New York The 1986 Rutgers University Press edition of Nella Larsen’s two novels,…

  • Browner America: Marcia Alesan Dawkins says an increase in nonwhite births doesn’t mean more social justice.

  • Librarian of Congress Appoints Natasha Trethewey Poet Laureate Library of Congress News from the Library of Congress 2012-06-07 Librarian of Congress James H. Billington today announced the appointment of Natasha Trethewey as the Library’s Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2012-2013. Trethewey, the 19th Poet Laureate, will take up her duties in the fall, opening…

  • Selected Poems by Natasha Trethewey The New York Times 2012-06-06 Poems by Natasha Trethewey, the newly named poet laureate. …PASTORAL In the dream, I am with the Fugitive Poets. We’re gathered for a photograph. Behind us, the skyline of Atlanta hidden by the photographer’s backdrop — a lush pasture, green, full of soft-eyed cows lowing,…

  • The Origin of the Van Guilders History’s Faces 2012-05-25 Debra Winchell Recently the Associated Press published an article by Travis Loller saying that DNA study seeks the origin of Appalachia’s Melungeons. In a excerpt Mr. Loller wrote: In recent years, it has become a catchall term for people of mixed-race ancestry and has been applied…

  • New Laureate Looks Deep Into Memory The New York Times 2012-06-06 Charles McGrath The Library of Congress is to announce Thursday that the next poet laureate is Natasha Trethewey, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of three collections and a professor of creative writing at Emory University in Atlanta. Ms. Trethewey, 46, was born in Gulfport, Miss.,…

  • Some Anthropological Characteristics of Anglo-Negro Children The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Volume 73, Numbers 1/2 (1943) pages 57-73 K. L. Little, M.A., Ph.D. The Duckworth Laboratory University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge I. Introduction Although fairly large Negro communities have been in existence in Liverpool, Cardiff, London…