Category: United States

  • On Race and Medicine The Scientist: Exploring Lie, Inspiring Innovation Volume 28, Issue 2 (Febuary 2014) Keith Norris, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, College of Medicine and Science David Geffen School of Medicine University of California, Los Angeles Until health care becomes truly personalized, race and ethnicity will continue to be important clues guiding medical treatments. Clinical…

  • Advancing Health Through A Racial Lens: The New Biopolitics of Race, Health, and Justice University of Maryland, College Park Stamp Student Union Banneker Room 2212 Thursday, 2014-02-20, 12:30-15:00 EST (Local Time) Moderated by: Dorothy Roberts J.D., Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology, and the inaugural Raymond Pace and…

  • Mixed Roots Stories~ What’s Yours? Mixed Race Radio Blog Talk Radio 2014-02-19, 17:00Z (12:00 EDT) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host Join us today as we meet the visionaries behind Mixed Roots Stories: Chandra Crudup, Mark Edwards and our very own, Fanshen Cox. Mixed Roots Stories (MXRS) is a new resource for teaching and learning about the Mixed…

  • Color Without Complex: A Conversation w/ Michaela Angela Davis & Dr. Yaba Blay New York University, Washington, D.C. Abramson Family Auditorium 1307 L Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20005 Tuesday, 2014-02-18, 18:30 EST (Local Time) Michaela Angela Davis Yaba Blay, Ph.D., Professor of Africana Studies and Women’s & Gender Studies Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania What exactly…

  • A Breezy Chameleon, Blurring Social Borders The New York Times 2014-02-16 Jennifer Schuessler, Staff Editor When the literary scholar George Hutchinson was in the archives at Howard University one afternoon a decade ago, he thought he knew which story of a neglected African-American woman writer he was chasing. He was at work on a biography…

  • Who Gets to Be A POC?: Self-Identifying & Privilege Mixed Dreams: towards a radical multiracial/ethnic movement 2014-02-09 Nicole Nfonoyim de Hara This post is in response to a great question a friend asked about how the wonderful new book (1)ne Drop:Shifting the Lens on Race by Dr. Yaba Blay and Noelle Théard, featuring portraits of individuals…

  • Obama and the Oscars: Lights, Camera, Nationalism! A Symposium About The “Obama Effect” On Film Culture DePaul University Richardson Library Rosati Room 300 2350 North Kenmore Avenue Chicago, Illinois Friday, 2014-02-28, 16:00-19:00 CST (Local Time) Moderated by: Daniel McNeil, Ida B. Wells-Barnett Professor of African and Black Diaspora Studies DePaul University Speakers: George Elliott Clarke,…

  • Walking Down The Widening Aisle Of Interracial Marriages Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity Weekend Edition Saturday National Public Radio 2014-02-15 Hansi Lo Wang Editor’s Note: Code Switch has been engaged in a month-long exploration of romance across racial and cultural lines. Follow the Twitter conversation via the hashtag #xculturelove. The numbers are…

  • Breath of Freedom The Smithsonian Channel Premieres Monday, 2014-02-17 20:00 EST Narrated by Cuba Gooding Jr. They fought to liberate Germany from Nazi rule, as racism reached unfathomable levels. Their fight would continue back home on American soil. This is the story of the one-million-plus African Americans who fought in World War II. Discover their…

  • Race as freedom: how Cedric Dover and Barack Obama became black Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 37, Issue 2 pages 222-240 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2012.715661 Nico Slate, Associate Professor of History Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Born across racial lines, Cedric Dover and Barack Obama both came to identify with the African American community. By contrasting the lives…