Mixed Race Studies

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  • Viola Desmond, the new face of the $10 bill, ‘represents courage’

    Viola Desmond just wanted to watch a movie.

  • Race and Ethnicity: Constancy in Change (First Edition)

    “Race and Ethnicity: Constancy in Change” uses both classic readings and new research on contemporary racial inequality to create a logical progression through the primary issues of race and ethnicity.

  • Beyond black and white: Color and mortality in post-reconstruction era North Carolina

    A growing empirical literature in economics and sociology documents the existence of more favorable social and economic outcomes among mixed-race blacks compared to non-mixed race blacks. However, few researchers consider whether the advantages associated with mixed-race status extend to mortality.

  • Native American Tribal Disenrollment Reaching Epidemic Levels

    All across Indian Country, Native Americans are being evicted from their tribes, with little warning and little legal recourse.

  • How Barack Obama Failed Black Americans

    How Barack Obama Failed Black Americans The Atlantic 2016-12-22 William A. Darity, Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics; Director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity Duke University The country’s first black president never pursued policies bold enough to close the racial wealth gap. Born…

  • Uganda is worried about the number of Chinese men marrying their women

    Uganda is worried about the number of Chinese men marrying their women Quartz Africa 2016-12-09 Lily Kuo Contractors, petty traders, investors, and entrepreneurs from China have been pouring into Uganda for the past decade. China is a top investor in the east African country, accounting for as much as half of total foreign investment between…

  • Word of Honour: Reclaiming Mandela’s Promise

    Word of Honour: Reclaiming Mandela’s Promise Chace Studios South Africa 2016 Color Running Time: 01:13:00 Kiersten Dunbar Chace, Producer, Director, Editor David Grant, Consultant/Writer In 1997, just prior to his departure from politics, President Nelson Mandela delivered an informal speech to a predominately mixed-race Coloured community in the Western Cape. He reassured them they had nothing…

  • The way ahead

    The way ahead The Economist 2016-10-08 Barack Obama, President of The United States America’s president writes for us about four crucial areas of unfinished business in economic policy that his successor will have to tackle WHEREVER I go these days, at home or abroad, people ask me the same question: what is happening in the…

  • The Effects of School Desegregation on Mixed-Race Births

    The Effects of School Desegregation on Mixed-Race Births The National Bureau of Economic Research NBER Working Paper No. 22480 Issued in August 2016 47 pages DOI: 10.3386/w22480 Nora Gordon, Associate Professor McCourt School of Public Policy Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Sarah Reber, Associate Professor of Public Policy Luskin School of Public Affairs University of California, Los…

  • Banished from the tribe

    Banished from the tribe Inter-County Leader/Washburn County Register Cooperative-Owned Newspapers Serving Northwest Wisconsin 2016-07-25 Ed Emerson Gary King WEBSTER – Tony Ammann is the grandson of former longtime St. Croix Chippewa chief and traditional “midewiwin” spiritual leader Archie Mosay. His mother, Archie’s daughter, has Department of Interior papers certifying her blood quantum requirement to be…