Category: United States

  • The Uniqueness of Dante de Blasio Gotham Gazette: The Place or New York Policy and Politics New York, New York 2013-09-24 Andy Beveridge, Professor of Sociology Queens College, City University of New York As New York took in the extent of the win by Bill de Blasio in the Democratic primary for mayor, the impact…

  • De Blasio Responds to Lhota’s Doomsday Ad With a Cheery One Politicker 2013-10-17 Colin Campbell Tale of Two Ads A day after Joe Lhota released an ad warning of apocalyptic results if rival Bill de Blasio is elected mayor–complete with photos of race riots and corpses–Mr. de Blasio is out with a new spot of…

  • Fitting Into the Right Box: Multiracial America on the Rise Brown Political Review 2013-10-18 Meg Sullivan As swimmer Michael Phelps knows, one of the highest priorities of food corporations is maintaining their squeaky clean mainstream appeal. This usually involves companies giving wide berth to any manner of controversy, but Cheerios ignored this policy four months…

  • An Essentially American Narrative The New York Times 2013-10-11 Nelson George A Discussion of Steve McQueen’s Film ‘12 Years a Slave’ Amid comic book epics, bromantic comedies and sequels of sequels, films about America’s tortured racial history have recently emerged as a surprisingly lucrative Hollywood staple. In the last two years, “The Help,” “Lincoln,””Django Unchained,””42”…

  • The Impact of Internet Publishing and Online Communications on Mixed-Race Discourses The Asian American Literary Review Special Issue on Mixed Race, Volume 4, Issue 2 (Fall 2013) Mixed Race is an Inbox: pages 127-136 Steven F. Riley, Creator MixedRaceStudies.org: Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience Glenn C. Robinson, Creator MixedAmericanLife.us: Mixed Culture | Mixed…

  • Special Issue on Mixed Race [The Asian American Literary Review] The Asian American Literary Review 2013-08-06 AALR’s special issue on mixed race, coming in Fall 2013, is not simply a reexamination of race or a survey of mixed voices, important as both are. We envision our role as that of provocateur–inspiring new conversations and cross-pollinations,…

  • Booker, Winning Rocky Senate Bid, Gets a Job to Fit His Profile The New York Times 2013-0-16 Kate Zernike Mayor Cory A. Booker of Newark easily won New Jersey’s special Senate election on Wednesday, finally rising to an office that measures up to his national profile. He will arrive in Washington already one of the…

  • Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures, 1896–1937 by Julia H. Lee (review) Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 16, Number 3, October 2013 pages 340-342 DOI: 10.1353/jaas.2013.0025 Caroline H. Yang, Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies, English University of Illinois, Chicago Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures,…

  • Cory Booker wins New Jersey Senate race The Washington Post 2013-10-16 Sean Sullivan Newark Mayor Cory Booker, a rising national Democratic star, was elected to the U.S. Senate Wednesday and will become New Jersey’s first ever African American senator. Booker defeated Republican Steve Lonegan, a former mayor of Bogota. With 58 percent of the vote…

  • The 10 Percenter The New York Times 2011-10-13 Robert S. Boyton Henry Louis Gates Jr. is having lunch at New York’s Union Square Cafe, hoping Danny Meyer’s chicken soup will soothe his allergies. He has just returned from Newark, where he interviewed Mayor Cory Booker for his new PBS series, “Finding Your Roots.” After lunch…