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  • My Ancestor’s Name and Race Changed in Census Records. Why?

    My Ancestor’s Name and Race Changed in Census Records. Why? The Root 2016-01-01 Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher, Jr. University Professor; Director, Hutchins Center for African & African American Research Harvard University Anna L. Todd, Researcher New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS), Boston, Massachusetts 1860 U.S. census for Hardy County, Va. U.S. census Tracing…

  • Op-Ed Thomas Chatterton Williams: My black privilege

    Op-Ed Thomas Chatterton Williams: My black privilege The Los Angeles Times 2016-01-03 Thomas Chatterton Williams A couple of years ago, I participated in an Aspen Institute symposium on the state of race. During the roundtable that followed the panels, as I spoke about my experiences growing up black in the 1990s, I was interrupted by…

  • Young Gifted Black

    Young Gifted Black Isthmus Madison, Wisconsin 2015-05-01 Allison Geyer, Staff Writer Fiery activist group praised and panned for disruptive protests in name of racial equality Dozens of protesters with the Young, Gifted and Black Coalition marched on March 19 to a mayoral forum at the Barrymore Theatre, where two white, progressive mayoral candidates were preparing…

  • Among The Wild Mulattos And Other Tales (By Tom Williams) [NPR Review]

    Among The Wild Mulattos And Other Tales (By Tom Williams) [NPR Review] NPR’s Book Concierge: Our Guide To 2015’s Great Reads National Public Radio 2015-12-08 Michael Schaub, book critic Produced by Nicole Cohen, Rose Friedman, Petra Mayer and Beth Novey Designed by Annette Elizabeth Allen, David Eads, Becky Lettenberger and Wes Lindamood Identity, both racial…

  • BEST OF 2015: Not Quite White

    BEST OF 2015: Not Quite White Madison365 Madison, Wisconsin 2015-12-29 Matthew Braunginn Matthew Braunginn I may never be able to truly “pass” or to be “race neutral.” I have always been and always will be “not quite white.” I reject those terms because I have been othered on their terms. I can never fully fit…

  • “I Don’t See Color” Personal and Critical Perspectives on White Privilege

    Who is white, and why should we care? There was a time when the immigrants of New York City’s Lower East Side—the Irish, the Poles, the Italians, the Russian Jews—were not white, but now “they” are. There was a time when the French-speaking working classes of Quebec were told to “speak white,” that is, to…

  • On Obama

    On Obama Routledge 2015-11-04 134 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780415525473 Hardback ISBN: 9780415525466 Paul C. Talyor, Associate Professor of Philosophy and African American Studies Pennsylvania State University On Obama examines some of the key philosophical questions that accompany the historic emergence of the 44th US president. The purpose of this book is to take seriously the…

  • Mothering, Mixed Families and Racialised Boundaries

    This pioneering volume draws together theoretical and empirical contributions analyzing the experiences of white mothers in interracial families in Britain, Canada and the USA.

  • Not Ready

    Not Ready North Bay Bohemian Santa Rosa, California 2015-12-31 Tom Gogola, News Editor 2015 was an ugly year in America When the question is asked near the beginning—”Is America ready for its first black president?”— it needs to be answered near the end. And as Barack Obama comes into the homestretch of his term in…

  • Exhibit by Penn cultural anthropologist showcases Afro-Latinos in Philadelphia

    Exhibit by Penn cultural anthropologist showcases Afro-Latinos in Philadelphia Penn Current: News, ideas and conversations from the University of Pennsylvania 2015-12-10 Jacquie Posey Free and enslaved Africans shaped and built Latin America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean. Their descendants, known as Afro-Latinos, are featured in a new photo exhibition by cultural anthropologist Sandra Andino, associate director…