Category: Articles

  • Room For Debate: Does It Matter Where You Go to College? Merit and Race New York Times 2010-11-30 Luis Fuentes-Rohwer, Professor of Law and Harry T. Ice Faculty Fellow Indiana University What sensible and ambitious students should keep in mind about where they go to school. Notwithstanding our commitment to egalitarian norms, where one chooses…

  • A tale of two scholars: The Darwin debate at Harvard Harvard Gazette 2007-05-19 Louis Agassiz was a scientist with a blind spot—he rejected the theory of evolution Few people have left a more indelible imprint on Harvard than Louis Agassiz. An ambitious institution-builder and fundraiser as well as one of the most renowned scientists of…

  • Obamafiction for Children: Imagining the Forty-Fourth U.S. President Children’s Literature Association Quarterly Volume 35, Number 4 (Winter 2010) E-ISSN: 1553-1201 Print ISSN: 0885-0429 pages 334-356 Philip Nel, Professor of English Kansas State University In a column published five days after the 2008 election, journalist Jason Whitlock said of the president-elect’s life: “His is a tale…

  • Miscegenation and Race: A Roundtable on Peggy Pascoe’s What Comes Naturally [A Tribute] Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Volume 31, Number 3, 2010 pages 1-5 E-ISSN: 1536-0334, Print ISSN: 0160-9009 Estelle B. Freedman, Edgar E. Robinson Professor of History Stanford University The following papers pay tribute to Peggy Pascoe’s [1954-2010] extraordinary book What Comes Naturally:…

  • Between boxes the Burr Kent State University Fall 2005 pages 50-55 Story by Jessica Rothschuh Photo illustration by Clarissa Westmeyer Photos by Lauren Arendt For some multiracial students, college becomes a time to discover their heritages and shape their identities HER DARK HAIR IS PULLED BACK IN BRAIDS, LEAVING HER FACE OPEN, TWO large, dark…

  • World Premiere of “Family Portrait in Black and White” at 2011 Sundance Film Festival Family Portrait in Black and White 2011 Interfilm Productions, Inc. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Directed by: Julia Ivanova Producted by Boris Ivanov OLGA NENYA is a foster mother to SIXTEEN BLACK ORPHANS in Ukraine—where 99.9% of the population is white and…

  • From Manenberg to Soweto: race and coloured identity in the black consciousness poetry of James Matthews  African Studies Volume 62, Issue 2 (December 2003) pages 171-186 DOI: 10.1080/0002018032000148740 Mohamed Adhikari, Associate Professor of Historical Studies, University of Cape Town The Black Consciousness poetry of James Matthews, internationally recognised Coloured writer from the Cape Flats, reflects…

  • The whole story on being ‘hafu’ CNN International CNN Go 2010-11-29 Daniel Krieger The movie ‘Hafu’ explores the limbo world of people who are half-Japanese and half something else, as they try to find their place in society What does it mean to be half-Japanese in 21st-century Japan? This is what filmmakers Megumi Nishikura and…

  • Biracial Youth and Families in Therapy: Issues and Interventions Journal of Marital and Family Therapy Volume 26, Issue 3 (July 2000) pages 305–315 DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2000.tb00300.x Stephanie Milan, Assistant Professor of Psychology University of Connecticut Margaret K. Keiley, Professor Director of Clinical Research Center for Children, Youth, and Families Auburn University Empirical research and clinical resources…

  • Characterizing the Admixed African Ancestry of African Americans Genome Biology Volume 10, Issue 12 (2009) R141 DOI: 10.1186/gb-2009-10-12-r141 Fouad Zakharia Department of Genetics Stanford University School of Medicine Analabha Basu Institute for Human Genetics University of California, San Francisco Devin Absher HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, Alabama Themistocles L. Assimes Division of Cardiovascular Medicine Stanford…