Category: United States

  • Barack Obama’s Warning to People of Mixed Heritage Eighth Generation 2014-01-22 Louie Gong Back in April 2005, a group of mixed people sponsored by the nonprofit MAVIN had the golden opportunity to sit down with the then-Senator Obama. The conversation, filmed as part of the feature length documentary “Chasing Daybreak,” may be the only interview…

  • Americans Say Obama’s Not Black? How Pew Got This Wrong The Root 2014-04-14 Jenée Desmond-Harris, Senior Staff Writer and White House Correspondent Saying “Yes, Obama is mixed race” is not the same as saying “No, he’s not black.” Racial Identity 101: You can be both. Twenty-seven percent of Americans say President Barack Obama is black,…

  • Forget Policy—Americans Can’t Even Agree on Whether Obama Is Black TakePart 2014-04-15 Liz Dwyer, Staff Writer A Pew Research Center study finds that whites and Latinos identify the commander-in-chief as ‘mixed race.’ If you thought the United States had achieved the significant historic milestone of electing its first African American president, think again. According to…

  • The Next America Pew Research Center 2014-04-10 Paul Taylor, Executive Vice President of Special Projects Demographic transformations are dramas in slow motion. America is in the midst of two right now. Our population is becoming majority non-white at the same time a record share is going gray. Each of these shifts would by itself be…

  • Book Release of Prof. Lundy Braun’s Breathing Race into the Machine Brown University Providence, Rhode Island Program in Science and Technology Studies 2014-03-26 This February, Royce Family Professor in Teaching Excellence, professor of medical science and Africana studies, and a member of the Science and Technology Studies Program, Lundy Braun released her new book Breathing…

  • Just days ago PolicyMic put up a piece entitled “National Geographic Concludes What Americans Will Look Like in 2050, and It’s Beautiful.” In it writer Zak Cheney-Rice attempts to address the so-called rise of multiracial peoples which has captured/enchanted the public eye and with which the media has become deeply enamored.

  • National Geographic Concludes What Americans Will Look Like in 2050, and It’s Beautiful PolicyMic 2014-04-10 Zak Cheney-Rice, Writer covering race, hip-hop, sports and pop culture It’s no secret that interracial relationships are trending upward, and in a matter of years we’ll have Tindered, OKCupid-ed and otherwise sexed ourselves into one giant amalgamated mega-race. But what…

  • Approaching race as a social rather than biological construct The Daily Pennsylvanian Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2014-04-08 Laura Anthony The Program on Race, Science and Society will examine the role of race in scientific research at upcoming symposium In 1851, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine graduate Samuel Cartwright delivered a report to the Medical Association…

  • Intermarried-Whites in the Cherokee Nation Between the Years 1865 and 1887 Chronicles of Oklahoma Volume 6, Number 3 (September, 1928) pages 299-326 A. H. Murchison Muskogee, Oklahoma The Cherokee Indians in all their various treaties with the United States, numbering about twenty, obtained provisions whereby the United States was to exclude intruding white persons from their…

  • Louisiana Ordered to Provide Voucher Data to U.S. Education Week 2014-4-09 Mark Walsh, Contributing Writer A federal judge has ordered Louisiana to provide annual data to the federal government on the students participating in the state’s private school voucher program. The April 7 order by U.S. District Judge Ivan R. Lemelle of New Orleans appears…