Category: United States

  • Conjure Tales and Stories of the Color Line: Collected Stories Penguin Classics June 2000 304 pages 5.23 x 7.59in Paperback ISBN: 9780141185026 Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) Edited by: William L. Andrews, E. Maynard Adams Professor of English University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Unlike the popular “Uncle Remus” stories of Joel Chandler Harris, Charles W.…

  • Why race still matters Dædalus Volume 134, Number 1 (Winter 2005) Pages 102-116 DOI: 10.1162/0011526053124460 Ian Hacking, Professor of Philosphy University of Toronto Why has race mattered in so many times and places? Why does it still matter? Put more precisely, why has there been such a pervasive tendency to apply the category of race…

  • Of Matters Very Much Related: Trayvon Martin, “Multiracial” Identity, and the Perils of Being Black, Breathing, and Nearby We Are Respectable Negroes 2012-03-19 Chauncey DeVega Scholars have long maintained that race is merely a social construct, not something fixed into our nature, yet this insight hasn’t made it any less of a factor in our…

  • A troubled experiment’s forgotten lesson in racial integration Point Reyes Light Point Reyes Station, California 2012-03-15 Carina Ray, Associate Professor of African and Afro- American Studies Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts The year 2012 marks the fortieth anniversary of my Puerto Rican mother and Irish-Italian father’s unusual wedding. They met and married in an experimental community…

  • Postracial Possibilities? Deconstructing Contemporary Discourse on Multiraciality American College Personnel Association ACPA 2012 Annual Convention Louisville, Kentucky 2012-03-24 through 2012-03-28 Session Information: Monday, 2012-03-26 16:15-17:15 EDT (Local Time) Kentucky International Convention Center, 107 Marc Johnston University of California, Los Angeles Prema Chaudhari Asian & Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund (APIASF) Although multiracial individuals have been…

  • An Odd Sense of Color Toulouse Street: Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans 2012-03-24 Mark Folse OK, I just have to say it: it was Odd that three of the four panelists on the Tennessee Williams Festival panel New Orleans Free People of Color were white. The garrulous playwright John Guare tried to steal…

  • S.66, the Native Hawaiian Health Care Improvement bill in the 112th Congress — Reauthorizing an ineffective but socially dangerous pork-barrel waste of taxpayer dollars Hawaii Reporter 2011-03-07 Kenneth R. Conklin, Ph.D. S.66 is a bill in the 112th Congress entitled “The Native Hawaiian Health Care Improvement Act,” introduced by Senator Dan Inouye on January 15,…

  • Grassroots Marketing in a Global Era: More Lessons from BiDil The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics Volume 39, Issue 1, Spring 2011 pages 79–90 DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-720X.2011.00552.x Britt M. Rusert, External Humanities Fellow Center for the Humanities Temple University Charmaine D. M. Royal, Associate Research Professor Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy; Department of African…

  • Is Race-Based Medicine Good for Us?: African American Approaches to Race, Biomedicine, and Equality The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics Volume 36, Issue 3, September 2008 pages 537–545 DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-720X.2008.302.x Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology; Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights University of…

  • Who is George Zimmerman? The Washington Post 2012-03-23 Manuel Roig-Franzia Tom Jackman Darryl Fears The shooter was once a Catholic altar boy — with a surname that could have been Jewish. His father is white, neighbors say. His mother is Latina. And his family is eager to point out that some of his relatives are…