Category: United States

  • Dwayne Johnson – ‘Race Shifter’ In A Post Racial World? Shadow and Act: On Cinema Of The African Diaspora 2013-03-27 Sergio Mims, Staff Writer We all know that there’s been a lot of talk about how we are all now living in a “post-racial” society. Though I think, most of us will respond to that…

  • New class: The Multiracial Experience The Portland State Vanguard Portland, Oregon 2013-01-16 Gwen Shaw The eye of the storm. That’s what Black Studies professor Ethan Johnson calls the Northwest, when it comes to multiracialism. “The Northwest has some of the highest rates, within the black community in particular, of marrying outside of their race—in the…

  • “Race, Gender, and the Politics of Skin Tone” tackles the hidden yet painful issue of colorism in the African American and Mexican American communities.

  • Census report shows multiracial and minority population growing fastest PoliticsNation with Rev. Al Sharpton NBC News 2013-06-13 Morgan Whitaker, Producer As white birth rates declined, Asian-American and Hispanic populations grew significantly, but the latest Census Report shows that multiracial populations grew fastest. America’s young children are more racially diverse than ever before, according to a…

  • TO: Honorable Paul B. Johnson, Governor; Honorable Carroll Gartin, Lieutenant Governor FROM: Director, Sovereignty Commission SUBJECT: Louvenia Knight (Williamson) and her two sons, Edgar Williamson, born May 1, 1954, and Randy Williamson, born October 10, 1955

  • Label me American The Massachusetts Daily Collegian University of Massachusetts 2008-03-24 John Gruenenfelder I come to you today as the son of a mixed race couple, of a white father and a Hispanic mother. And yet, I feel allegiance to neither. I look at my father and say, yes, he is white. And I look upon…

  • Mississippi rebel’s descendants seek family facts The Jackson Sun 2013-07-04 Laura Tillman, Associated Press SOSO, MISS. — One hundred and fifty years have passed since the Civil War, but in Mississippi, the descendants of a legendary rebel are still separating the facts of his life from fiction. Newton Knight, a white farmer from central Mississippi’s…

  • Has ‘Caucasian’ Lost Its Meaning? The New York Times 2013-07-06 Shaila Dewan, Economics Reporter gray318 As a racial classification, the term Caucasian has many flaws, dating as it does from a time when the study of race was based on skull measurements and travel diaries. It has long been entirely unmoored from its geographical reference…

  • Redefining la raza U.S. Catholic 2011-07-06 Father Tom Joyce, CMF There use to be an unspoken pattern to Hispanic migration to the United States: Mexicans drifted to Los Angeles or South Texas, Puerto Ricans—soon followed by Dominicans—to New York City. Cubans stayed in Miami for a quick return to Havana that never came. Mexicans and…

  • Let’s face it: We need a new way to talk about race U.S. Catholic July 2013 Anthony Walton Our conversation about race in America is still stuck in black and white. In order to move forward, we all need to learn a new vocabulary. By any measure, we are living in the best period of…