Category: United States

  • Defying the Stereotype of the Broken Black Family The New Yorker 2015-10-12 Lucy McKeon For his series “Father Figure,” begun in 2011, the photographer Zun Lee created quiet and tender portraits of black fathers with their children: one kisses the tiny hand of his baby while riding the subway; another goofs around at bedtime, his…

  • Photo Gallery Highlights Multiracial Student Experiences The Havard Crimson 2015-10-26 Aafreen Azmi, Contributing Writer Brandon J. Dixon, Contributing Writer Students study the portraits on display at “OTHER: A Multiracial Student Photo Gallery” at the exhibition’s opening on Sunday afternoon. Eliza R. Pugh Students expressed their desire to define their racial identities on their own terms…

  • Race In R.I.: The Invisible Natives The Providence Journal Providence, Rhode Island 2015-10-24 G. Wayne Miller, Journal Staff Writer Their ancestors were the state’s original settlers, but today’s Indians say whites ‘don’t even see us’ First of two parts EXETER – On this fine autumn morning, Paulla Dove Jennings welcomes a visitor into her home…

  • Faculty Panel: Multiracialism Informing Academic Work University of Michigan Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery (Room 100) 913 S University Ave Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 2015-10-26, 16:00-18:00 CDT (Local Time) Series: What Does it Mean to be Multiracial in a Monoracial World? Join us for the first in a year-long series of events that explore what it…

  • Young Mr. Obama: Chicago and the Making of a Black President Bloomsbury Press 2010 288 pages 5 1/2″ x 8 1/4″ Hardback ISBN: 9781608190607 Edward McClelland Barack Obama’s inspirational politics and personal mythology have overshadowed his fascinating history. Young Mr. Obama gives us the missing chapter: the portrait of the politician as a young leader,…

  • Cook: Race and the practice of medicine The Casper Star Tribune Casper, Wyoming 2015-10-24 Edith Cook Edith Cook/Perspective We now know once and for all that race is not a biological phenomenon but a social construct. The Human Genome Project, completed in 2000, established that, genetically, all of us human beings are more than 99.9…

  • 309 | Passing in White America Chicago Humanities Festival Karla Scherer Endowed Lecture Series for the University of Chicago Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts Film Screening Room 201 915 E 60th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637 Sunday, 2015-10-25; 17:30-18:30 CDT (Local Time) Between the 18th and 20th centuries, countless African Americans passed as…

  • I had heard of Wild Goose Festival from friends who had braved the woods in years past, but I wasn’t sure it was my kind of thing. I certainly didn’t expect to be a part of the gathering anytime soon. Then my friend Micky asked me to attend. She wanted to know if I would…

  • Sometimes I engage in conversations about whiteness that make people bristle. Questions are often raised like: so is “white” automatically wrong? Why is “whiteness” evil? Are you saying “white people” are inherently bad? My impression is that there is a bit of talking past one another that happens in these discussions, so it is my…

  • “Asian Latinos” and the U.S. Census AAPI Nexus: Policy, Practice and Community Volume 10, Number 2 (2012) pages 119-138 DOI: 10.17953/appc.10.2.m04004632k7n353l Robert Romero, Associate Professor of Chicana/o Studies and Asian American Studies University of California, Los Angeles Kevin Escudero, Postdoctoral Fellow in American Studies Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Marjorie Kagawa-Singer, Professor Emerita Department of…