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  • Racializing Obama: The Enigma of Post-Black Politics and Leadership

    Racializing Obama: The Enigma of Post-Black Politics and Leadership Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society Volume 11, Issue 1, 2009 pages 1-15 DOI: 10.1080/10999940902733202 Manning Marable (1950-2011), Professor of Public Affairs, Political Science, History and African-American Studies Columbia University In the 1990s, a new race-neutral, “post-black” leadership of African Americans emerged…

  • Amerasians

    Amerasians Atmo 1998-10-22 52 minutes Erik Gandini, Director/Producer In 1988, after the Congress passed the Amerasian Homecoming Act, Vietnamese youngsters who could prove they had been fathered by an American were issued with a ticket for the U.S. and granted six months ”upkeep”. Overnight, society’s lowest ranks became ”golden children”, able to take a whole…

  • Event: Joe Bataan, the Afro-Filipino King of Latin Soul

    Event: Joe Bataan, the Afro-Filipino King of Latin Soul Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program National Museum of Natural History Baird Auditorium 10th & Constitution Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20530 Friday, 2012-10-19, 18:30-21:00 EDT (Local Time) “Latin soul comes straight from the streets of Harlem. It’s a cha-cha backbeat with English lyrics and a pulsating rhythm…

  • Miscegenation

    Miscegenation Otago Witness Dunedin, New Zealand Issue 652, 1864-05-28 Page 1 Source: Papers Past, National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa From the “Saturday Review.” Words being the signs of ideas, for a new notion a new term is necessary. The barbarous word “miscegenation” has been invented by the fanatics of Abolitionism…

  • Review of Fatal Invention, by Professor Dorothy Roberts

    Review of Fatal Invention, by Professor Dorothy Roberts Race and the Law: A Critical Examination of Science, Law and the Construction of Race 2011-12-07 Christian B. Sundquist, Associate Professor of Law Albany Law School Professor Dorothy Roberts has recently released a vitally important book on issues of race and genetics, entitled Fatal Invention: How Science,…

  • The Future Is Now: What PR Pros and Marketers Need to Know About the “Mixed Mindset”

    The Future Is Now: What PR Pros and Marketers Need to Know About the “Mixed Mindset” The Huffington Post 2012-10-17 Marcia Dawkins, Clinical Assistant Professor of Communications University of Southern California, Annenberg Don’t believe the hype! Multiracials are not new. They are the products of racial blending of various groups—beginning with Native Americans and European…

  • Millionaire to Use Money Against Racial Inetermingling

    Millionaire to Use Money Against Racial Inetermingling The Natchez News and Courier Natchez, Mississippi 1949-11-13 James McLean NATCHEZ. Miss, Nov. 12. Bald, rugged George W. Armstrong is determined to make his money talk loud and long against “racial mongrelization”. That’s a term the 84-year-old millionaire uses often in voicing opposition to intermingling of Jews, Gentiles and…

  • Afraid of the Dark

    Afraid of the Dark RaceFiles: On Race and Racism in our Politics and Daily Lives 2012-10-15 Scot Nakagawa, Senior Partner ChangeLab Reports of rapid demographic change in favor of people of color in the U.S. seem to have caused a reaction among many whites bordering on panic. Explosive increases in participation in white nationalist groups,…

  • Three Winton Triangle Presentations at Greensboro conference.

    Three Winton Triangle Presentations at Greensboro conference. Chowan Discovery Group 2012-10-15 Marvin T. Jones The Chowan Discovery presentations about the Winton Triangle, its Civil War history and Chowan Discovery historical markers attracted many enthusiastic attendees at the annual conference of the Afro-American Genealogical and Historical Society (AAGHS) in Greensboro. Included in the audiences were history…

  • In the future, we will be…: Priyank Shah at TEDx Columbus

    In the future, we will be…: Priyank Shah at TEDx Columbus TEDx Columbus 2012-10-14 Priyank Shah, Demographer, Futurist, Teacher Dr. Shah is a demographer and a very enthusiastic one. He’ll begin our day with baseline picture of where we are headed as a population so we will better understand ourselves as a society. But no…