Category: United States

  • What is Systemic Racism? Race Forward 2015-05-13 Rinku Sen President of Race Forward & Publisher of Colorlines introduces the “What Is Systemic Racism?” video series featuring our very own Jay Smooth. Watch the entire video series here.

  • No Charges for Wisconsin Officer in Killing of Unarmed Black Teenager The New York Times 2015-05-12 Richard Pérez-Peña (@perezpena), National Desk A Madison, Wis., police officer who killed an unarmed black man in March, in one of a spate of similar incidents that have set off protests around the country, will not face criminal charges,…

  • New Bill Would Let New Yorkers Identify As Multiracial On Official City Forms The Huffington Post 2015-05-12 Christopher Mathias (@letsgomathias), New York Reporter New York City has the largest population in the United States of people who identify as multiracial. Even its mayor, Bill de Blasio, and its first lady, Chirlane McCray, have two multiracial…

  • ‘Typical American Families’ photo exhibit to be unveiled at Emory Emory News Center Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 2015-05-04 Kimber Williams “Typical American Families” highlights the many configurations that family life can take in America. Photos in the exhibit will be unveiled at a public reception at the Center for Ethics on May 7. Photo by…

  • In Twilight of Term, Obama Finds More Urgent Voice on Race Bloomberg News 2015-05-11 Mike Dorning, White House Correspondent Angela Greiling Keane, White House Correspondent Polls show racial polarization in the U.S. is at the highest in decades. With his time in office waning, President Obama is speaking out on race and poverty in increasingly…

  • “The Color Factor: The Economics of African-American Well-Being in the Nineteenth-Century South” demonstrates that the emergent twenty-first-century recognition of race mixing and the relative advantages of light-skinned, mixed-race people represent a re-emergence of one salient feature of race in America that dates to its founding.

  • The Somatechnics of Whiteness and Race: Colonialism and Mestiza Privilege Ashgate May 2015 186 pages 234 x 156 mm Hardback ISBN: 978-1-4724-5307-5 eBook PDF ISBN: 978-1-4724-5308-2 eBook ePUB ISBN: 978-1-4724-5309-9 Elaine Marie Carbonell Laforteza, Lecturer in Cultural Studies Macquarie University, Australia Investigating the emergence of a specific mestiza/mestizo whiteness that facilitates relations between the Philippines…

  • The Nine Lives Of Dianne White St. Louis Magazine August 2005 Nancy Larson Photograph by Katherine Bish “‘Old what’s-her-face–is she still alive?’ About half of you folks thought I was pushing daisies. Well, surprise, surprise–I’m still here.” That’s the way Dianne White Clatto imagines that fans from her Channel 5 days think about her–if they…

  • Dianne White Clatto, Weathercaster Who Broke a Color Barrier, Dies at 76 The New York Times 2015-05-07 Sam Roberts, Urban Affairs Correspondent (@samrob12) Dianne White Clatto, in 1967, giving the weather report on KSD-TV. Credit St. Louis Post-Dispatch Twelve years before Al Roker started as a weather anchor for a CBS affiliate in Syracuse, Dianne…

  • When I was four years old, I came home from preschool and said to my mother, “they think I’m one of the white kids.” To their credit, I have always looked like one of the white kids. Unfortunately for those not interested in giving evidence to the proverb about books and their covers, my appearance…