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  • When Family Trees Are Gnarled by Race

    When Family Trees Are Gnarled by Race The New York Times 2012-09-08 Brent Staples My paternal grandfather, Marshall Staples (1898-1969), was one of the millions of black Southerners who moved north in the Great Migration. Those of us in the family who were born Yankees in the years just after World War II were given…

  • Alexander Saxton, Historian and Novelist, Dies at 93

    Alexander Saxton, Historian and Novelist, Dies at 93 The New York Times 2012-09-01 Paul Vitello Alexander Saxton, who would go on to become a prominent historian of race in America, summed himself up in a blurb on the dust jacket of his first novel, “Grand Crossing,” published when he was 24. “At various times,” he…

  • Afro-Latino/a Identities: Challenges, History, and Perspectives

    Afro-Latino/a Identities: Challenges, History, and Perspectives Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal Volume 9, Issue 1 (2012-04-20) Article 5 Sobeira Latorre, Assistant Professor of Spanish Southern Connecticut State University Miriam Jiménez Román and Juan Flores, editors, The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010), 584 pp. The Afro-Latin@…

  • Obama’s race still has bearing on media coverage

    Obama’s race still has bearing on media coverage The Louisiana Weekly 2012-09-04 Nadra Kareem Nittle, Contributing Writer (Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from the Maynard Institute) – Long before a little-known Illinois politician ran for president, the mainstream media focused on his race. When he flourished as a presidential candidate four years ago,…

  • Lessons From a Preservice Teacher: Examining Missed Opportunities For Multicultural Education in an English Education Program

    Lessons From a Preservice Teacher: Examining Missed Opportunities For Multicultural Education in an English Education Program Networks: An On-line Journal for Teacher Research Volume 41, Number 1 (Spring 2012) 10 pages Amy M. Vetter, Assistant Professor Department of Teacher Education and Higher Education, School of Education University of North Carolina, Greensboro Jeanie Reynolds, Lecturer/Director of…

  • PARADE Exclusive: A Conversation With the Obamas

    PARADE Exclusive: A Conversation With the Obamas Parade Magazine 2012-09-12 Lynn Sherr, Contributor Maggie Murphy, Editor in Chief President and Mrs. Obama photographed in the White House Map Room on Aug. 10. [Photo: Ben Baker] You hear him before you see him. After a hearty hello to the men and women working on the ground…

  • Is Obama still black?

    Is Obama still black? Aljazeera 2012-09-06 Harvey Young, Associate Professor of Theatre, Performance Studies; African American Studies; Radio/Television/Film Studies Northwestern University (also Fellow at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University) Barack Obama, to many, is not “as noticeably” or, perhaps, “meaningfully black as he once was”, writes Young. Race…

  • Rep. Mike Honda: Obama is First Asian-American President

    Rep. Mike Honda: Obama is First Asian-American President U.S. News & World Report 2012-09-05 Lauren Fox, Political Reporter The details of Bill Clinton’s youth, along with a number of his hobbies while in the White House, often led some people to call Clinton “America’s first black president.” Now that the country’s actual first black president…

  • Living in Ambiguity with Carl Olsen

    Living in Ambiguity with Carl Olsen Mixed Race Radio 2012-09-05, 16:00Z (12:00 EDT, 09:00 PDT) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host Carl Olsen Colorado State Univeristy Carl is a regular guest on Mixed Race Radio and self- identifies as Japanese and White. Originally Carl was going to discuss his experience being marked as white on a traffic…

  • Black Talk, Blue Thoughts, and Walking the Color Line: Dispatches from a Black Journalista

    This lively and thoughtful book explores what it means to be black in an allegedly postracial America