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  • Non-profit Tuesday: Why Give? What you might not expect in return

    Non-profit Tuesday: Why Give? What you might not expect in return Laura Kina 2012-11-27 Laura Kina, Associate Professor Art, Media and Design and Director Asian American Studies DePaul University Giving is hard. I’m not talking about birthday or Christmas gifts here. There is a social contract that you must give back to those who you…

  • Including Museums in Critical Mixed Race Studies

    Including Museums in Critical Mixed Race Studies the incluseum: museums and social inclusion 2012-11-27 Chieko Phillips, Curatorial Assistant Northwest African American Museum, Seattle, Washington In 2009, when I first learned of a museum exhibit called IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas and two other exhibits that carried messages about multiraciality, I had mixed feelings (pun…

  • Sneak peek at next ‘Black in America’

    Sneak peek at next ‘Black in America’ Cable News Network 2012-11-27 What makes someone black in America? Skin color? History? Culture? Soledad O’Brien reports on Sunday, December 9 at 8pm ET/PT.

  • Disparate Impact

    Disparate Impact Georgetown Law Journal Volume 98, Issue 4 (2010) pages 1133-1163 Girardeau A. Spann, Professor of Law Georgetown University Law Center Introduction There has been a lot of talk about post-racialism since the 2008 election of Barack Obama as the first black President of the United States. Some have argued that the Obama election…

  • Whiteness in the Age of Obama

    Whiteness in the Age of Obama The Huffington Post 2012-11-26 Jedediah Purdy, Professor of Law Duke University Recall the numbers: 59 percent of white voters supported Romney. More dramatically, 88 percent of his votes came from whites. One simple but plausible analysis suggested that Obama won a majority of white votes only in New England,…

  • Rose Hill: An Intermarriage before Its Time

    A riveting memoir of cultural crossfire

  • The Life and Writings of Betsey Chamberlain: Native American Mill Worker (review)

    The Life and Writings of Betsey Chamberlain: Native American Mill Worker (review) Studies in American Indian Literatures Volume 24, Number 3, Fall 2012 pages 138-141 DOI: 10.1353/ail.2012.0035 Margaret M. Bruchac By reconstructing the life history of Betsey Guppy Chamberlain (1797–1866), historian and librarian Judith Ranta has done some fine detective work that illuminates an otherwise…

  • Bringing together our collective stories

    Bringing together our collective stories The African Courier: The International Magazine Published in Germany October/November 2012 Gyavira Lasana The second annual convention of the Black German Cultural Society of New Jersey took place at Barnard College in New York City recently. Our New York-based contributing editor Gyavira Lasana reports on the convention, which focused on…

  • Rosa Mahier’s Freedom: Identity and the Maintenance of Liberty in Antebellum Louisiana

    Rosa Mahier’s Freedom: Identity and the Maintenance of Liberty in Antebellum Louisiana 127th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association New Orleans, Louisiana 2013-01-03 through 2013-01-06 Saturday, 2013-01-05: 14:50 CST (Local Time) Chamber Ballroom I (Roosevelt New Orleans) Paper in AHA Session 220: Manipulating Freedom: Liberty, Enslavement, and the Quest for Power in the Southwestern…

  • Chinese-Mexicans celebrate repatriation to Mexico

    Chinese-Mexicans celebrate repatriation to Mexico Silicon Valley Mercury News 2012-11-24 Olga R. Rodriguez, Mexican Correspondent Associated Press MEXICO CITY—Juan Chiu Trujillo was 5 years old when he left his native Mexico for a visit to his father’s hometown in southern China. He was 35 when he returned. As Chiu vacationed with his parents, brother and…