Category: United States

  • Beyond Blackness and Whiteness: Activists of Mixed Race Speak Out The Los Angeles Review of Books 2016-08-02 Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn SHORTLY BEFORE Alton Sterling’s and Philando Castile’s names became viral hashtags on social media, the latest flare-up in the ongoing conversation about race and racial justice in the United States had been sparked by actor…

  • Obama, America, and the Legacy of James Alan McPherson Literary Hub 2016-08-01 Whitney Terrell Whitney Terrell Remembers His Friend and Mentor The title story of James Alan McPherson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning short story collection Elbow Room opens with an italicized passage: Narrator is unmanageable. Demonstrates a disregard for form bordering on the paranoid . . .…

  • Personal Essay: Yo Soy Boricua Latina 2010-01-18 La La Vazquez A lot of people don’t realize that I’m Latina, which is fine. One thing about being Latina is that there isn’t one look that comes with the territory. I don’t expect people to know my cultural background just by glancing at me. I do, however,…

  • Three Takeaways from Interviewing 110 “JewAsian” Couples and Kids The ProsenPeople: Exploring the world of Jewish Literature Jewish Book Council 2016-07-18 Helen Kiyong Kim, Associate Professor of Sociology Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington Noah Samuel Leavitt, Associate Dean of Students Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington Helen Kiyong Kim and Noah Samuel Leavitt are the coauthors…

  • An anthropomorphic study of the black population in the United States, based on a study conducted in 1920.

  • This paper examines the scientific construction of racial differences through the lens of early twentieth-century bioanthropological studies of American Negro skeletal and living population samples.

  • Biracial Current and Former Military Dependents Needed New Mexico State University 2016-07-30 Charlotte Williams, M.A. Approved IRB Number #13184 My name is Charlotte Williams and I am a doctoral student in the Counseling Psychology program at New Mexico State University. I would like to invite you participate in a study that aims to explore growing…

  • Mathematician Katherine Johnson at Work NASA History National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) 2016-02-25 Sarah Loff, Editor Image Credit: NASA NASA research mathematician Katherine Johnson is photographed at her desk at Langley Research Center in 1966. Johnson began her career in 1953 at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), the agency that preceded NASA,…

  • Obama Returns to His Biography The Atlantic 2016-07-27 Yoni Appelbaum, Senior Editor/Washington Bureau Chief Mark Kauzlarich / Reuters Twelve years after introducing himself to the American public as the son of an immigrant, the president recast himself as a bearer of Scotch-Irish values. Twelve years ago, Barack Obama introduced himself to America as just a…

  • President Obama and the Long March The New York Times 2016-07-28 The Editorial Board President Obama’s speech before the Democratic convention in Philadelphia Wednesday night was, of course, an occasion to celebrate the candidacy of Hillary Clinton, his former secretary of state and the first woman to receive the presidential nomination of a major political…