Category: United States

  • Williams: A positive among the attack ads in the Gecker-Sturtevant race Richmond Times-Dispatch Richmond, Virginia 2015-11-02 Michael Paul Williams, Columnist During the 2000 Republican primary in South Carolina, John McCain was the target of a whisper campaign that he’d fathered a black child out of wedlock. McCain, who in reality had an adopted Bangladeshi daughter,…

  • Koreans and Camptowns: Mixed-Race Adoptees and Camptown Connections David Brower Center 2150 Allston Way Berkeley, California 94704 2015-09-26, 09:00-17:00 PDT (Local Time) In cooperation with the Center for Korean Studies, University of California, Berkeley, we were excited to host a one-day conference to learn more about the camptowns that developed alongside American military bases in…

  • BU community urged to increase open, uncomfortable conversation The Daily Free Press The independent student newspaper at Boston University ISSN 1094-7337 2015-11-03 Joe Becker Keynote speaker and comedian W. Kamau Bell speaks about his mixed race children during “Let’s Talk About It,” a dialogue about race, identity and social action, on Monday night. PHOTO BY…

  • Shaun King: I’ve been called the N-word since I was 14, but now those same people want me to be white The New York Daily News 2015-11-03 Shaun King Atlanta, Georgia Robin Rayne Nelson EDITOR’S NOTE: Our policy at the Daily News is to censor most racial pejoratives. We have made an exception in the…

  • Though today she is little known, Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954) was one of the most remarkable women of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In this autobiography, originally published in 1940, Terrell describes the important events and people in her life.

  • Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century’s Most Photographed American Liveright (an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company) November 2015 320 pages 9.4 × 12.4 in Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-87140-468-8 John Stauffer, Professor of English, American studies, and African American Studies Harvard University Zoe Trodd, Professor of American Literature Department of American…

  • Contributors: Allyson Hobbs The New Yorker 2015-09-22 Allyson Hobbs began writing for newyorker.com in June, 2015. She writes about race, gender, politics, and culture. She is an assistant professor in the History Department at Stanford University. Allyson’s first book, “A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life,” published by Harvard University Press…

  • Author Meets Reader: Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics and Big Business Recreate Race in the Twenty-First Century by Dorothy Roberts University of California, Irvine School of Law 401 E. Peltason Drive Irvine, California Room 3500 Monday, 2015-11-02, 18:30 PST (Local Time) Sponsored by the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy and the Center on…

  • Is race a choice? VOX: CEPR’s Policy Portal Research-based policy analysis and commentary from leading economists Centre for Economic Policy Research 2015-01-26 Emily Nix, PhD candidate in Economics Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Nancy Qian, Associate Professor of Economics Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Race is usually treated as a fixed, exogenous characteristic in academic…

  • Fluid Identity Discrimination American Business Law Journal Volume 52, Issue 4, Winter 2015 pages 789–857 DOI: 10.1111/ablj.12056 Leora F. Eisenstadt, Assistant Professor (Research) Fox School of Business and Management Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania According to the most recent Census, the multiracial population of children has increased dramatically in the last decade, and the number of…