Category: United States

  • ‘A Chosen Exile’: Black People Passing In White America Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity All Things Considered National Public Radio 2014-10-07 Karen Grigsby Bates, Correspondent Culver City, California Dr. Albert Johnston passed in order to practice medicine. After living as leading citizens in Keene, N.H., the Johnstons revealed their true racial identity,…

  • Daughters tell stories of ‘war brides’ despised back home and in the U.S. The Japan Times 2014-10-05 Lucy Alexander Hiroko Furukawa was working as a sales assistant at the PX U.S. military supply store in Ginza in 1950 when she met a GI named Samuel Tolbert. Shortly afterwards, Hiroko and Samuel found themselves married and…

  • Cramblett vs. Midwest Sperm Bank Marley-Vincent Lindsey 2014-10-07 Marley-Vincent Lindsey I. Narratives and Political Order On September 29, Jennifer L. Cramblett filed a suit against the Midwest Sperm Bank for “Wrongful Birth and Breach of Warranty against Defendant.” Where the expecting couple had picked a “blond hair blue-eyed individual” to resemble the non-biological partner, the…

  • Indie Groundbreaking Book: (1)ne Drop Independent Publisher October 2014 Craig Manning Western Michigan University Landmark Photo Essay Book Seeks to “Shift the Lens on Race” Has the social and political mindset on race in 2014 changed from where it was 100 years ago? What is the definition of “Blackness” in the modern age? These are…

  • Census Bureau Names 10 New Members to National Advisory Committee United States Census Bureau Release Number: CB14-186 2014-10-06 Public Information Office 301-763-3030 The U.S. Census Bureau today announced 10 new members to serve on the Census Bureau’s National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic and Other Populations. The National Advisory Committee advises the Census Bureau on…

  • What if you were told you were white All In with Chris Hayes MSNBC 2014-10-02 Chris Hayes, Host Lacey Schwartz, Filmaker “Little White Lie” But it turns out you’re not. Chris Hayes talks to filmmaker Lacey Schwartz about growing up believing she was white, when in fact, she’s not. Watch the video here.

  • More Like Us: How Religious Service Attendance Hinders Interracial Romance Sociology of Religion Volume 75, Issue 3 (August 2014) pages 442-462 DOI: 10.1093/socrel/sru041 Samuel L. Perry Department of Sociology University of Chicago Religious service attendance is a consistently strong predictor of aversion to interracial romance, but intervening social mechanisms at work in this relationship have…

  • Bro. Richard Potter: “The Great Magician” Scottish Rite Journal The Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Supreme Council, 33° Washington, D.C. Southern Jurisdiction, U.S.A. March-April 2011 Elliott Saxton, 32° Bro. Richard Potter [see also here] was the first professional American-born magician and is also credited with being our first successful ventriloquist. His fame was such that the town…

  • Remains will stay in old family cemetery in Bedford The News & Advance Lynchburg, Virginia 2014-10-01 Alex Rohr, Beat Reporter BEDFORD — The remains of at least 20 people buried in Bedford will stay interred despite a request by the Bank of the James to move them. The bank’s request to the Bedford County Circuit…

  • Multiracial family embraces twins’ uniqueness News 10, KXTV Sacramento, California 2014-10-02 Daria Givens, News 10 Staff A Lincoln family embodies California’s melting pot and embraces their uniqueness. LINCOLN – Fraternal twins Viviana and Dennis look very different from each other. They are part of the Ng Family, a multiracial family from all parts of the…