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  • Nevada GOP lawmaker to ‘colored’ colleague: Racism is over because the president is black

    Nevada GOP lawmaker to ‘colored’ colleague: Racism is over because the president is black Raw Story 2015-03-18 David Ferguson The Nevada state Assemblywoman who believes that cancer is a “fungus” that can be flushed from the body with saline solution has now said that she believes that racism in her state is a thing of…

  • Tony Terrell Robinson was shot dead by Madison police. This is how it happened

    Tony Terrell Robinson was shot dead by Madison police. This is how it happened The Guardian 2015-03-13 Oliver Laughland, Senior Reporter Guardian US Zoe Sullivan Robinson as a child. ‘There is something so beautiful about a black kid, especially in America, trying to make it against all odds and fucking up so bad, but then…

  • Was Elliot Rodger Asian American?

    Was Elliot Rodger Asian American? Reappropriate.co 2015-03-10 Jenn Reappropriate For weeks following the Isla Vista shooting, killer Elliot Rodger was described in mainstream media as a young White man. This was a convenient narrative: Rodger was seen as yet another example of the maligned young vengeance-seeking White male outcast (like Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold…

  • Bodies Under Re/view? Mediating Racial Blackness

    Bodies Under Re/view? Mediating Racial Blackness InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture 2013-08-20 Tiffany E. Barber, Adjunct Instructor African and African American Studies University of Oklahoma “In our allegedly postracial moment, where simply talking about racism openly is considered an impolitic, if not racist, thing to do, we constantly learn and re-learn racial…

  • Madison Police Shooting: Not Just About Race Because Victim Was Biracial, Family Says

    Madison Police Shooting: Not Just About Race Because Victim Was Biracial, Family Says ABC News 2015-03-09 Meghan Keneally, Digital Reporter The uncle of the 19-year-old who was fatally shot by a police officer in Madison, Wisconsin, over the weekend said that his nephew “just wanted to be loved.” Tony Robinson Jr., who was known to…

  • Wisconsin chief treading carefully after fatal shooting

    Wisconsin chief treading carefully after fatal shooting The Washington Post 2015-03-08 The Associated Press MADISON, Wis. — Within hours of a white officer shooting an unarmed black man, the police chief of Wisconsin’s capital city was praying with the man’s grandmother, hoping to strike a conciliatory tone and avoid the riots that last year rocked…

  • Identity Entrepreneurs

    Identity Entrepreneurs 2015-03-05 87 pages Nancy Leong, Associate Professor of Law University of Denver Sturm College of Law In my previous article Racial Capitalism, I examined the ways in which white individuals and predominantly white institutions derive value from non-white racial identity. This process results in part from our intense social and legal preoccupation with…

  • Obama, at Selma Memorial, Says, ‘We Know the March Is Not Over Yet’

    Obama, at Selma Memorial, Says, ‘We Know the March Is Not Over Yet’ The New York Times 2015-03-07 Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent Richard Fausset Doug Mills/The New York Times SELMA, Ala. — As a new generation struggles over race and power in America, President Obama and a host of political figures from both…

  • Urging Persistence on Racial Gains, Obama Recalls Sacrifice in Selma

    Urging Persistence on Racial Gains, Obama Recalls Sacrifice in Selma The New York Times 2015-03-06 Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent Julie Hirschfeld Davis, White House Correspondent COLUMBIA, S.C. — For the nation’s first African-American president, it was a week of two documents that told the story of a country still grappling with its own…

  • Man Shot Dead by Police After Scuffle in Wisconsin

    Man Shot Dead by Police After Scuffle in Wisconsin The New York Times 2015-03-07 Ashley Southall A 19-year-old Wisconsin man was shot and killed Friday by a police officer during a scuffle inside an apartment in Madison, police officials said. The shooting prompted protests that continued on Saturday and led officials to call for restraint…