Category: Articles

  • THE CONGRESS: Black’s White TIME Magazine 1938-01-24 To Negro Lee Jones, a 31-year-old mill-hand of Greensboro, Ala., last week’s doings in the U. S. Senate were good news. Negro Jones had been arrested, charged with jumping on the running board of a car to kidnap Mrs. Robert Knox Greene, wife of a white planter. When…

  • PLAIN PEOPLE: Is There Anywhere?… Time Magazine 1946-03-11 Prewar Britain’s Negro problem was as minuscule as prewar Britain’s Negro population. But the 70,000 U.S. Negro troops who served in Britain during the war left behind hundreds of illegitimate mulatto babies. Last fortnight London’s League of Colored Peoples reported that already 544 children of U.S. Negro…

  • Science: Savants TIME Magazine 1924-08-18 Women’s barber shops call themselves beauty parlors. Drug stores call themselves ice cream parlors. Clerks call themselves salesmen. Politicians call themselves statesmen. Flappers call themselves young ladies. But scientists call themselves scientists, and only newspapers call them savants. But the word “savants” has been spread in the headlines of newspapers…

  • What being mixed race has taught me MsAfropolitan: the cosmopolitan African woman 2011-01-26 Minna Salami It’s a shame that we black people are the ones that analyse and debate race and racism the most. If society was as post-racial as some try to claim, then I believe that it is white people that should be…

  • This paper argues that the visually mixed-race person has a certain direct ability to challenge the binary and its racist logic. Furthermore, this paper goes on to offer a unique interpretation of where power for working against a racially oppressive system lies within critical mixed-race theory.

  • Race and Class in Political Science Michigan Journal of Race and Law Volume 11, Issue 1 (Fall 2005) pages 99-114 Jennifer L. Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies Harvard University As a discipline, political science tends to have a split personality on the issue of whether…

  • The right colour Index on Censorship Volume 28, Issue 1, 1999 Special Issue: The Last Empire pages 110-114 DOI: 10.1080/03064229908536514 Daniela Cestarollo Five hundred years after the arrival of the Portuguese, Brazilians are only Just beginning to address the legacy of slavery Brazil is at last revealing its other face. After 500 years of seeking…

  • Brazil’s unfinished battle for racial democracy The Economist 2000-04-20 JOSILENE SALES’S career is typical of Brazil’s emerging middle class. She spent seven years working in a petrochemical plant, while studying for a degree at night classes. Having moved to a better paid job in marketing, she saved enough to start her own telemarketing firm in…

  • Britain: More mixed than we thought British Broadcasting Corporation 2011-10-07 Mark Easton, Home editor New figures seen by the BBC suggest our mixed race population may be twice the size of official figures—numbering up to two million people Looking at some new figures on ethnic minorities in Britain the other day, I glanced at a…