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  • Annette John-Hall: CNN series cuts to the core of black identity

    No surprise that “Black in America,” Soledad O’Brien’s documentary series on African American life and culture, was among CNN’s most-watched programs. No other show has offered a deeper look at what it means to be black, in all its complexities.

  • CNN Contributing Producer Probes Lingering Pain of the ‘One Drop’ Rule

    CNN Contributing Producer Probes Lingering Pain of the ‘One Drop’ Rule ColorLines: News for Action 2012-12-07 Akiba Solomon, Columnist, Gender Matters New York, New York Keep the concept of privilege-clinging in the back of your mind as you check out the work and words of Dr. Yaba Blay, the driving force behind “Who Is Black…

  • Soledad O’Brien: Who is black in America? I am

    Soledad O’Brien: Who is black in America? I am Cable News Network (CNN) 2012-12-07 Editor’s Note: In today’s United States, is being black determined by the color of your skin, by your family, by what society says, or something else? Soledad O’Brien reports “Who Is Black in America?” on CNN at 8 p.m. ET/PT this…

  • Dismantling the Race Myth

    Dismantling the Race Myth Kyoto International Conference Center Kyoto, Japan 2012-12-15 through 2012-12-16 Poster (PDF, Japanese) Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University presents International Symposium.   “Race” still has social reality even though it has no biological reality. This symposium aims to dismantle the race myth by bringing together scholars in a wide range…

  • Race in a Bottle: The Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine in a Post-Genomic Age

    At a ceremony announcing the completion of the first draft of the human genome in 2000, President Bill Clinton declared, “I believe one of the great truths to emerge from this triumphant expedition inside the human genome is that in genetic terms, all human beings, regardless of race, are more than 99.9 percent the same.”…

  • Angry Black White Boy or The Miscegenation of Macon Detornay: A Novel

    From the acclaimed author of “Shackling Water” comes the first great race novel of the twenty-first century, an incendiary and ruthlessly funny satire about violence, pop culture, and American identity.

  • Did one-drop rules have a positive side?

    Did one-drop rules have a positive side? Cable News Network (CNN) Black in America: A Soledad O’Brien Report 2012-12-05 Soledad O’Brien, Host   Ethnographer and professor Dr. Yaba Blay explains why she thinks the one-drop rule has a positive side. [Transcription by Steven F. Riley] Soledad O’Brien: Why do so many black people—me included—embrace the “one-drop…

  • Laylah Ali’s show both confounds and mesmerizes

    Laylah Ali’s show both confounds and mesmerizes The Boston Globe 2012-02-19 Sebastian Smee,  Art Critic Laylah Ali is an artist to reckon with. Any opportunity to see her work should not be missed, and for the next two weeks, the Jaffe-Friede Gallery, a small college gallery a short walk from the Hood Museum of Art…

  • How the United States Racializes Latinos: White Hegemony and Its Consequences

    Mexican and Central American undocumented immigrants, as well as U.S. citizens such as Puerto Ricans and Mexican Americans, have become a significant portion of the U.S. population. Yet the U.S. government, mainstream society, and radical activists characterize this rich diversity of peoples and cultures as one group alternatively called “Hispanics,” “Latinos,” or even the pejorative…

  • Genomics and Health Care Disparities: The Role of Statistical Discrimination

    Genomics and Health Care Disparities: The Role of Statistical Discrimination The Journal of the American Medical Association Volume 308, Number 19 (2012-11-21) pages 1979-1980 DOI: 10.1001/2012.jama.10820 Katrina Armstrong, MD, MSCE, Professor of Medicine University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Ten years ago, 2 events occurred that have transformed biomedical research. In 2001, the draft sequence…