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  • Who Is Katherine Johnson?

    Who Is Katherine Johnson? National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) 2016-12-30 Heather S. Deiss NASA Educational Technology Services Denise Miller NASA Educational Technology Services Katherine Johnson Credits: Katherine Johnson This article is part of the NASA Knows! (Grades 5-8) series. Katherine Johnson is an African-American mathematician who worked for NASA from 1953 until 1986. She was a human computer.…

  • Discourses of Citizenship in American and Brazilian Affirmative Action Court Decisions

    Discourses of Citizenship in American and Brazilian Affirmative Action Court Decisions American Journal of Comparative Law Volume 64, Number 2, (Summer 2016) pages 455-504 DOI: 10.5131/AJCL.2016.0015 Adilson José Moreira Harvard University; Mackenzie Presbyterian University American and Brazilian courts are traveling quite different paths regarding the question of racial justice. Race neutrality has become an influential…

  • BEST OF 2016: 12 on Tuesday with Matthew Braunginn

    BEST OF 2016: 12 on Tuesday with Matthew Braunginn Madison365 Madison, Wisconsin 2016-12-21 Henry Sanders Matthew Braunginn A founder of the Young, Gifted and Black Coalition, Matthew Braunginn works to close the achievement gaps as a coordinator with UW’s PEOPLE program. [Since this came out, Braunginn has become the Student Engagement Specialist for the Middleton-Cross…

  • Mixing It Up: Students, professors reflect on the definition of mixed race in modern society

    Mixing It Up: Students, professors reflect on the definition of mixed race in modern society HiLite: Your Source For CHS News Carmel High School, Carmel, Indiana 2016-12-12 Allison Li, Calendar/Beats Editor, Feature Reporter Junior Kiki Koniaris is Korean, Pennsylvanian Dutch and Grecian. Despite being of mixed race, Koniaris said she believes race should not define…

  • “IT’S LIKE WE HAVE AN ‘IN’ ALREADY”: The Racial Capital of Black/White Biracial Americans

    “IT’S LIKE WE HAVE AN ‘IN’ ALREADY”: The Racial Capital of Black/White Biracial Americans Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race Published online: 2016-12-19 DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X16000357 Chandra D. L. Waring, Assistant Professor Department of Sociology, Criminology and Anthropology University of Wisconsin, Whitewater The increasing bi/multiracial1 community in the United States has generated much literature about…

  • Mixed: Documentary to Explore Interracial Families

    Mixed: Documentary to Explore Interracial Families American University Washington, D.C. 2016-12-15 Gregg Sangillo, Online Writer School of Communication professors Leena Jayaswal (l) and Caty Borum Chattoo (r) are making a film about interracial families in the United States. It took a while for documentary filmmakers Leena Jayaswal and Caty Borum Chattoo to realize that they…

  • Guest DJ Xenia Rubinos Spins Music From Solange To Ravel

    Guest DJ Xenia Rubinos Spins Music From Solange To Ravel alt.Latino: Latinx Arts and Culture National Public Radio 2017-01-04 Felix Contreras, Host Xenia Rubinos plays Guest DJ on this week’s episode of Alt.Latino. Courtesy of the artist Vocalist Xenia Rubinos ended 2016 with a bang: Her album Black Terry Cat was singled out in best-of-the-year…

  • The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race [Review]

    The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race [Review] Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Volume 3, Issue 1, (January 2017) pages 145-146 DOI: 10.1177/2332649216676788 Emily Walton, Assistant Professor of Sociology Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire Anthony Christian Ocampo, The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race. Stanford,…

  • Remapping Race on the Human Genome: Commercial Exploits in a Racialized America

    Remapping Race on the Human Genome: Commercial Exploits in a Racialized America Praeger January 2017 310 pages 6.125 x 9.25 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4408-3063-1 eBook ISBN: 978-1-4408-3064-8 Judith Ann Warner, Professor of Sociology Texas A&M International University, Laredo, Texas Do the commercial applications of the human genome in ancestry tracing, medicine, and forensics serve to further…

  • In the Name of the Mother: Italian Americans, African Americans, and Modernity from Booker T. Washington to Bruce Springsteen

    In the Name of the Mother: Italian Americans, African Americans, and Modernity from Booker T. Washington to Bruce Springsteen Dartmouth College Press 2017-01-03 296 pages 10 illus. 6 1/8 x 9 1/4″ Paperback ISBN: 978-1-5126-0019-3 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-5126-0018-6 Ebook ISBN: 978-1-5126-0020-9 Samuele F. S. Pardini, Associate Professor of Italian Department of World Languages and Cultures…