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  • The End of the ‘Postrace’ Myth

    The End of the ‘Postrace’ Myth The Conversation: Online opinion on ideas and higher education The Chronicle of Higher Education 2013-01-14 Pamela Newkirk, Professor of Journalism New York University Over the past four years, it had become increasingly difficult to mount a public discussion about how racial bias continues to permeate our society, North and…

  • Children in Black and Mulatto Families

    Children in Black and Mulatto Families American Journal of Sociology Volume  39, Number 1 (July 1933) pages 12-29 E. Franklin Frazier (1894-1962), Professor of Sociology Fisk University Although the belief in the hereditary inferiority of the mulatto has been slowly dissipated by the accumulation of scientific knowledge, it is still echoed occasionally in scientific studies.…

  • UW communication professor unveils new book about race

    UW communication professor unveils new book about race The Daily of the University of Washington 2013-02-07 LaVendrick Smith Ralina Joseph discusses her book cover art at “Troubling the Family and Transcending Blackness” held at the UW bookstore. Photo by Dario Nanbu Race, reality, and pop culture collide in a new book written by one UW…

  • Racial Discrimination in Medicine versus Race-Based Medicine: The Ethical, Legal and Policy Implications on Health Disparities

    Racial Discrimination in Medicine versus Race-Based Medicine: The Ethical, Legal and Policy Implications on Health Disparities Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives Volume 3, Issue 1 (Spring 2011) pages 59-86 Christopher Ogolla, LL.M., J.D., M.A., M.P.H., B.A., Academic Support Instructor Thurgood Marshall School of Law Texas Southern University This paper explores the…

  • Of Loving and Zimmerman

    Of Loving and Zimmerman Univision Communications, Inc. 2013-06-26 Carlos Cortés, Professor Emeritus of History University of California, Riverside In my last blog I addressed the question of Latino identity by examining the controversy in “Is the New Pope Latino?” I responded with an emphatic “yes” (in about 500 words). Since then, three separate items relating…

  • A complicated family history places black Md. woman in DAR’s ranks

    A complicated family history places black Md. woman in DAR’s ranks The Washington Post 2013-06-29 Darryl Fears Reisha Raney’s role in Friday night’s Daughters of the American Revolution ceremony for the military was minor. She carried Virginia’s flag in a procession that walked a few steps down a carpeted aisle at Constitution Hall and then…

  • Black Indians: An American Story

    Black Indians: An American Story Rich-Heape Films 2001 60 Minutes Close Captioned NTSC All Regions Steven R. Heape – Executive Producer/Producer Chip Richie – Director/Producer James Earl Jones – Narrator Neville Brothers – Soundtrack Daniel Blake Smith – Screenwriter Howard Tyler – Editor “Black Indians: An American Story”— (as seen on ABC) brings to light…

  • The Mulatto in the United States. by Edward Byron Reuter [Review by: Kelly Miller]

    The case of the everlasting negro again intrudes itself on public attention in the form of a scientific treatise upon the mulatto in the United States. The author has brought together much interesting and valuable material bearing upon mixed-blood races in all parts of the world.

  • Photographer Interview: Albert Chong

    Photographer Interview: Albert Chong Dodge & Burn: diversity in photography history 2011-02-08 Qiana Mestrich, Visual Artist + Writer Dodge & Burn: Where are you from? Albert Chong: I am originally from Kingston, Jamaica by way of Brooklyn, NY, San Diego, CA and presently Boulder, CO. D&B: What kind of photography do you shoot and how…

  • Capturing the Spirit World on Film: Albert Chong’s artistic recipe blends Jamaica, Catholicism, Santeria and America in an eclectic artistic stew

    Capturing the Spirit World on Film: Albert Chong’s artistic recipe blends Jamaica, Catholicism, Santeria and America in an eclectic artistic stew The Los Angeles Times 1993-10-10 Leah Ollman When photographer and installation artist Albert Chong was about 6 years old, his parents bought a new house in Kingston, Jamaica. Chong’s father invited a Catholic priest…