Category: United States

  • Cherokee Phoenix: Remarks on the Report of the Committee on Indian Affairs in the House of Representatives Cherokee Phoenix and Indians’ Advocate New Echota, Georgia Wednesday, 1830-03-30 Volume II, Number 50 Page 1, column 1b; Page 2, column 2b Source: Hunter Library, Western Carolina University and Georgia Historic Newspapers We have read that part of…

  • Professor Dorothy Roberts — Challenging Concepts of Race Mixed Race Radio Blog Talk Radio 2013-06-26, 16:00Z (12:00 EDT) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host Dorothy E. Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology; Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights University of Pennsylvania Dorothy Roberts is the fourteenth Penn Integrates…

  • You don’t have to be mixed-race to have a mixed identity The Seattle Globalist: Where Seattle Meets the World 2013-06-24 Maggie Thorpe, Graduate student in Japan Studies University of Washington Editor’s note: Laura Kina, who is quoted throughout this post, disagrees with the representation of her perspective here. You can read her response in the comments.…

  • Guest: The fury over a Cheerios ad and an interracial family The Seattle Times 2013-06-24 Ralina Joseph, Associate Professor of Communication University of Washington The response to a Cheerios TV ad exposes American discomfort with interracial families, writes guest columnist Ralina Joseph A RECENT Cheerios television ad has all of the elements that viewers usually…

  • Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World University of Pennsylvania Press November 2013 304 pages 6 x 9; 3 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8122-4551-6 E-book ISBN: 978-0-8122-0873-3 Edited by: Cécile Vidal, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for North American Studies École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris Located at the junction of…

  • When Cars Assume Ethnic Identities The New York Times 2013-06-21 Glenn Collins Coming to a showroom near you for 2014: the first sport utility vehicle in its class equipped with a 9-speed automatic transmission. It’s also the first to offer a parallel-parking feature. And, in 4-wheel-drive models, the rear axle disconnects automatically, for fuel efficiency.…

  • Body Wellness Study Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas 2013-06-22 We would like to invite you to complete a brief online questionnaire investigating wellness and body image in an ethnically diverse population of adult females. The questionnaire can be completed from any computer and will take approximately 15-20 minutes of your time. By participating, you will…

  • Library of Congress Appoints Natasha Trethewey To Second Term as U.S. Poet Laureate News from the Library of Congress The Library of Congress Washington, D.C. 2013-06-10 Trethewey Will Launch Project as Part of the PBS NewsHour Poetry Series Librarian of Congress James H. Billington has appointed Natasha Trethewey to serve a second term as U.S.…

  • Barack Obama’s “Slave” Ancestor and the Politics of Genealogy George Mason University’s History News Network 2012-08-02 Honor Sachs, Assistant Professor of History Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina On July 30, the New York Times broke a story about the Obama family’s ties to slavery. Not Michelle Obama. Her family connection to slavery has been…

  • What’s it like to “come out” as a Third Culture Kid on stage? Elizabeth Liang tells all! The Displaced Nation: A home for international creatives 2013-06-20 The Displaced Nation Team As reported here last month, Elizabeth Liang spent the month of May performing, at a venue in Los Angeles, a one-woman show about being a…