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  • 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…

  • Diving Into Race, Identity of Multiracial Families In ‘Raising Mixed Race’

    Diving Into Race, Identity of Multiracial Families In ‘Raising Mixed Race’ NBC News 2015-12-31 Frances Kai-Hwa Wang Sharon H. Chang’s son with a copy of Kip Fulbeck’s “Mixed: Portraits of Multiracial Kids.” Photograph Courtesy of Sharon H. Chang Scholar and activist Sharon H. Chang’s new book, “Raising Mixed Race: Multiracial Asian Children in a Post-Racial…

  • Best of 2015: 12 authors on remarkable transformations

    Best of 2015: 12 authors on remarkable transformations Christian Science Monitor 2015-12-28 Randy Dotinga, President American Society of Journalists and Authors This year, I’ve interviewed many authors about moments of transformation for Q&A features in the Monitor. Here are some of my favorite answers. Transformation is an integral part of story-telling: How do we get…

  • Before Rachel Dolezal, what did it mean to ‘pass’?

    Before Rachel Dolezal, what did it mean to ‘pass’? Christian Science Monitor 2015-06-22 Randy Dotinga, President American Society of Journalists and Authors Allyson Hobbs, author of ‘A Chosen Exile,’ says the debate stirred up by Rachel Dolezal’s resignation from the NAACP hits historic chords. Allyson Hobbs, a history professor at Stanford University, remembers hearing a…

  • Obama’s skin looks a little different in these GOP campaign ads

    Obama’s skin looks a little different in these GOP campaign ads The Washington Post 2015-12-29 Max Ehrenfreund A new study shows that negative ads targeting President Obama in 2008 depicted him with very dark skin, and that these images would have appealed to some viewers’ racial biases. The finding reinforces charges that some Republican politicians…

  • One Drop of Love 2015

    One Drop of Love 2015 Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni 2015-12-30 Love & Gratitude to all who contributed to making 2015 an amazing year for One Drop of Love! One Drop of Love is a multimedia one-woman show exploring the intersections of race, class, gender, justice and LOVE. For more information, click here.

  • Bias in the Flesh: Skin Complexion and Stereotype Consistency in Political Campaigns

    Bias in the Flesh: Skin Complexion and Stereotype Consistency in Political Campaigns Public Opinion Quarterly First published online: 2015-12-17 DOI: 10.1093/poq/nfv046 Solomon Messing, Director of Data Labs Pew Research Center, Washington, D.C. Maria Jabon, Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn, Mountain View, California Ethan Plaut, Postdoctoral Fellow Stanford University, Stanford, California Researchers manipulated the tone of President…

  • Plessy v. Ferguson Re-Argument

    Plessy v. Ferguson Re-Argument C-SPAN: Created by Cable Program ID: 71350-1 1996-04-20 Hosted by Harvard University Distinguished jurists heard a re-argument of Plessy v. Ferguson, the 1896 Supreme Court case in which the Court found that Louisiana did not discriminate against Homer A. Plessy when it refused to let him sit in the white only…

  • Rulemaking under way for DNA testing for Hawaiian homelands

    Rulemaking under way for DNA testing for Hawaiian homelands The Associated Press 2015-12-28 Jennifer Sinco Kelleher This Dec. 24, 2015 photo provided by Pat Kahawaiolaa shows Kahawaiolaa taking a selfie at Keaukaha Beach Park in Hilo, Hawaii. He is among those with at least 50 percent Native Hawaiian blood who are eligible for low-cost land…

  • Hairy Paws and Bald Heads: Anxiety and Authority in W. D. Howells’ An Imperative Duty

    Hairy Paws and Bald Heads: Anxiety and Authority in W. D. Howells’ An Imperative Duty American Literary Realism Volume 48, Number 2, Winter 2016 pages 95-111 James Weaver, Assistant Professor of English Denison University, Granville, Ohio Intensely concerned with the cultural and personal implications of miscegenation and its resultant social upheaval, W. D. Howells’ An…