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  • The African American Museum chooses ‘Loving’ for its first film screening

    The African American Museum chooses ‘Loving’ for its first film screening The Washington Post 2016-10-25 Helena Andrews-Dyer Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga, stars of “Loving,” attend the premiere of the film on Thursday in Beverly Hills. (Chris Pizzello/Invision via Associated Press) Just one month after opening its doors, the National Museum of African American History and Culture is…

  • Congress Should Tell the OMB to Stop Dividing the Country

    Congress Should Tell the OMB to Stop Dividing the Country The Heritage Foundation Issue Brief #4614 on Office Of Management And Budget 2016-10-11 Mike Gonzalez, Senior Fellow The Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy On the first day of Congress’s recess, the Obama Administration recommended the most sweeping changes…

  • A U.S. Census proposal to add category for people of Middle Eastern descent makes some uneasy

    A U.S. Census proposal to add category for people of Middle Eastern descent makes some uneasy The Washington Post 2016-10-21 Tara Bahrampour For the first time in four decades, the federal government is poised to add a new ethnic category to the U.S. census form, adding a box for people of Middle Eastern and North…

  • Reevaluation of the Influence of Appearance and Reflected Appraisals for Mixed-Race Identity: The Role of Consistent Inconsistent Racial Perception

    Reevaluation of the Influence of Appearance and Reflected Appraisals for Mixed-Race Identity: The Role of Consistent Inconsistent Racial Perception Sociology of Race and Ethnicity October 2016, Volume 2, Number 4 pages 569-583 DOI: 10.1177/2332649216634740 Jennifer Patrice Sims, Adjunct Visiting Professor of Sociology University of Wisconsin, River Falls Developed from Cooley’s looking-glass self, the theory of…

  • Creative Self-Studio: Social Justice Storytelling

    Creative Self-Studio: Social Justice Storytelling DePaul University Student Center (Lincoln Park) Room 120 AB 2250 N Sheffield Avenue Chicago, Illinois Tuesday, 2016-10-25 09:40-11:10 CDT (Local Time) Aisha Fukushima will discuss the role of the emcee in hip-hop culture as a story-teller and learn how hip hop story-telling can be used to critically explore questions of identity, inequality and…

  • How America Bought and Sold Racism, and Why It Still Matters

    How America Bought and Sold Racism, and Why It Still Matters Collectors Weekly 2015-11-10 Lisa Hix, Associated Editor Today, very few white Americans openly celebrate the horrors of black enslavement—most refuse to recognize the brutal nature of the institution or actively seek to distance themselves from it. “The modern American sees slavery as a regrettable period when…

  • TriPod Mythbusters: Quadroon Balls And Plaçage

    TriPod Mythbusters: Quadroon Balls And Plaçage Tripod WWNO 89.9 FM New Orleans, Louisiana 2016-09-22 Laine Kaplan-Levenson, Host There is a common myth told about 19th-century New Orleans. It goes something like this: Imagine you’re in an elegant dance hall in New Orleans in the early 1800s. Looking around, you see a large group of white men and free…

  • Turn Onto Old Dixie. After a Long, Rocky Stretch, It Becomes Obama Highway.

    Turn Onto Old Dixie. After a Long, Rocky Stretch, It Becomes Obama Highway. The New York Times 2016-10-23 Dan Barry Peter Henry, the son of Dora Johnson, looking over a wall near 27th Street and President Barack Obama Highway in Riviera Beach, Fla., that once separated black and white neighborhoods. Credit Todd Heisler/The New York…

  • Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity

    Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity Federal Register: The Daily Journal of the United States Government A Notice by the Management and Budget Office on 09/30/2016 2016-09-30 4 pages Howard A. Shelanski, Administrator Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs AGENCY: Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and…

  • Collection of demographic data regarding multiracial identification.

    Collection of demographic data regarding multiracial identification. The New York City Council Melissa Mark-Viverito, Speaker 2014-11-25 (Passed 2016-11-13) Int 0551-2014, Version A (2014-11-25) A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to the collection of demographic data regarding multiracial identification Proposed Int. No. 551-A would require the Department of Social Services,…