Category: United States

  • Who gets the last laugh, again? Africa is a Country 2013-11-18 Jessica Blatt, Assistant Professor of Political Science Marymount Manhattan College, New York, New York I enjoy seeing a smug, bearded white supremacist get his comeuppance as much as the next guy. (Though the joy of the exuberant lady sitting next to this one is…

  • Families The New York Times 2013-11-25 Natalie Angier American households have never been more diverse, more surprising, more baffling. In this special issue of Science Times, NATALIE ANGIER takes stock of our changing definition of family. Read the entire article here.

  • Yaba Blay’s (1)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race (2014) is a beautiful, first-hand look at the true complexities surrounding the ways in which societies and peoples racialize one another and the ways in which these are institutionalized.

  • Whiteness, History, and Comments about George Zimmerman Andrew Joseph Pegoda, A.B.D. 2013-07-17 Andrew Joseph Pegoda Department of History University of Houston Events and things in history frequently involve what I call the “realms of illogic.” It’s not gonna make sense. “Race” is one of these. This posting is an attempt to address how people are…

  • Race and Medicine Princeton University AAS 403 / ANT 403 (EM) Spring 2013-2014 Carolyn M. Rouse, Professor of Anthropology In 1998, then-President Clinton set a national goal that by the year 2010 race, ethnic, and gender disparities in six disease categories would be eliminated. While the agenda, called Healthy People 2010, was a noble effort,…

  • All in the Family: Interracial Intimacy, Racial Fictions, and the Law California Law Review Circuit Volume 4 (November 2013) pages 179-186 D. Wendy Greene, Professor of Law Cumberland School of Law, Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama Professor Wendy Greene highlights the continued importance of analyzing interracial relationships in the framework of the law in her review…

  • One Big Mixed Race Classroom: New Models for Digital, Transnational, and Cross-Disciplinary Pedagogy Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association Beyond the Logic of Debt, Toward an Ethics of Collective Dissent 2013-11-21 through 2013-11-24 Washington Hilton 1919 Connecticut Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. Washington Hilton, Columbia Hall 9 (T) Friday, 2013-11-22, 12:00-13:45 EST (Local Time) CHAIR:…

  • Where “Old” and “New” World Color Meet in Multiracial Asian America Racism Review 2013-11-18 Sharon Chang, Guest blogger Multiracial Asian Families Rare indeed is the Asian American who has not heard an aunt or grandmother say something like; ‘Don’t go out in the sun. You’ll get too dark’…[Asian countries have] had long-standing preferences for light…

  • For Key And Peele, Biracial Roots Bestow Special Comedic ‘Power’ Fresh Air National Public Radio 2013-11-20 Terry Gross, Host Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele are the duo behind the Comedy Central sketch comedy show Key & Peele. Each has a white mother and black father, and a lot of their comedy is about race: Perhaps…

  • Diana Mafe Publishes Book What’s Happening Denison University, Department of English 2013-11-18 Diana Mafe, assistant professor of English, publishes her first book. Diana Mafe, Assistant Professor of English, has published her first book, Mixed Race Stereotypes in South African and American Literature: Coloring Outside the (Black and White) Lines (Palgrave Macmillan 2013). In this work,…