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  • Edward Brooke, first black elected U.S. senator, dies at 95

    Edward Brooke, first black elected U.S. senator, dies at 95 USA Today 2015-01-03 Natalie DiBlasio Former Massachusetts U.S. senator Edward Brooke, the first African American to be elected to the Senate by popular vote, has died at age 95. Ralph Neas, a former aide, said Brooke died Saturday of natural causes at his home in…

  • Edward Brooke, Pioneering U.S. Senator in Massachusetts, Dies at 95

    Edward Brooke, Pioneering U.S. Senator in Massachusetts, Dies at 95 The New York Times 2015-01-03 Douglas Martin Edward W. Brooke III, who in 1966 became the first African-American elected to the United States Senate by popular vote, winning as a Republican in overwhelmingly Democratic Massachusetts, died on Saturday at his home in Coral Gables, Fla.…

  • A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia

    Forty years ago, after publication of his pathbreaking book “Sugar and Slaves,” Richard Dunn began an intensive investigation of two thousand slaves living on two plantations, one in North America and one in the Caribbean.

  • Our real police/race problem: Diverse forces, white resentment, and America’s persistent divides

    Our real police/race problem: Diverse forces, white resentment, and America’s persistent divides Salon 2015-01-02 Jim Sleeper Why diverse police forces can’t seem to trump the economics of racism, or the twisted politics of white resentment Nearly two decades before last month’s murders of New York police officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu by a black…

  • Of Many Colors: Portraits of Multiracial Families

    Of Many Colors: Portraits of Multiracial Families University of Massachusetts Press 1997-11-21 160 pages 0.5 x 8 x 10.5 inches ISBN (paper): 978-1-55849-101-4 ISBN (cloth): 978-1-55849-100-7 (out of print) Gigi Kaeser, Co-director Family Diversity Projects, Inc., Amherst, Massachusetts Peggy Gillespie, Co-director Family Diversity Projects, Inc., Amherst, Massachusetts Photographs by Gigi Kaeser. Interviews by Peggy Gillespie.…

  • Revealing Racial Purity Ideology: Fear of Black–White Intimacy as a Framework for Understanding School Discipline in Post-Brown Schools

    Revealing Racial Purity Ideology: Fear of Black–White Intimacy as a Framework for Understanding School Discipline in Post-Brown Schools Educational Administration Quarterly Volume 50, Number 5 (December 2014) pages 783-795 DOI: 10.1177/0013161X14549958 Decoteau J. Irby, Assistant Professor School of Education University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Purpose: In this article, I explore White racial purity desire as an…

  • Professor Jared Ball on Ferguson and the Media

    Professor Jared Ball on Ferguson and the Media Truthout 2014-12-29 Dan Falcone At the recent “Shrouded Narrative teach-in” at American University, Dan Falcone met Jared A. Ball, a professor of communication studies at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland, who discussed, “Propaganda and Media.” In this interview, father and husband, author of I MiX What…

  • Section of Creative Media lecturer to speak at Global Mixed Race conference in Chicago

    Section of Creative Media lecturer to speak at Global Mixed Race conference in Chicago Dundalk Institute of Technology Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland 2014-11-10 Kathryn Moley Communications Office Dundalk Institute of Technology is incredibly proud to announce that Joint Programme Director of Video and Film in the Institute, Zélie Asava, is travelling to Chicago, to participate…

  • Racial Fluidity and Inequality in the United States

    Racial Fluidity and Inequality in the United States American Journal of Sociology Volume 118, Number 3, November 2012 pages 676–727 DOI: 10.1086/667722 Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Andrew M. Penner, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine The authors link the literature on racial fluidity and inequality in the United States…

  • Losing My Cool: Love, Literature, and a Black Man’s Escape from the Crowd

    Losing My Cool: Love, Literature, and a Black Man’s Escape from the Crowd Penguin Books April 2010 240 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780143119623 ePub ISBN: 9781101404348 Thomas Chatterton Williams Growing up, Thomas Chatterton Williams knew he loved three things in life: his parents, literature, and the intoxicating hip-hop culture that surrounded him. For years, he managed…