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  • Tale of a ‘Seditionist’–The Lawrence Dennis Story

    Tale of a ‘Seditionist’–The Lawrence Dennis Story AntiWar.com 2000-04-29 Justin Raimondo War infects and weakens our republican form of government, spreads social and political diseases throughout the body politic—but is, as Randolph Bourne put it, “the health of the State.” The State, in wartime, is glorified and empowered: the militarization of society means that all…

  • Racial/Ethnic Categories: Do They Matter?

    Racial/Ethnic Categories: Do They Matter? Poverty & Race November/December 1994 Lawrence Wright Chester Hartman, Director of Research Poverty & Race Research Action Council Last fall, the House Subcommittee on Census, Statistics and Postal Personnel, chaired by Rep. Thomas Sawyer (D-OH), held a series of hearings on modification of the existing racial categories used by the…

  • Mixing it up: Multiracialism redefines Asian American identity

    Mixing it up: Multiracialism redefines Asian American identity San Francisco Chronicle 2011-02-11 Jeff Yang, Special to SF Gate How the mainstreaming of multiracialism is forcing a more fluid definition of Asian American identity   Like many immigrants, my parents see identity as a bucket. My mother and father had come to America carefully bearing a…

  • For black Americans, multi-racialism is not new

    For black Americans, multi-racialism is not new The Daily Voice 2008-12-17 Sitafa Harden Clearly President-elect Barack Obama, the son of a white American mother and a black Kenyan father, is multi-racial. The only question is what’s so new about that? In a recent article, AP race and ethnicity writer Jesse Washington explored the issue of…

  • Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America

    Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America Princeton University Press March 2012 282 pages 6 x 9; 17 halftones. 14 line illus. 10 tables Cloth ISBN: 9780691152998 eBook ISBN: 9781400841943 Jennifer L. Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African…

  • The History of the Idea of Race… And Why it Matters

    The position taken by many anthropologists, both biological and social, and increasingly many other scholars in the social sciences is that “race is a cultural construct.” It should be clear that this is not a definition or even a characterization of “race,” but an assertion about the scholarly or existential domain in which we can…

  • Mixed Race Studies with Steve Riley

    Mixed Race Studies with Steve Riley BlogtalkRadio: Is That Your Child? 2012-01-20, 19:30 EST/16:30 PST; [2012-01-21, 00:30Z] Michelle McCrary, Host ITYC welcomes creator, founder and editor of the site Mixed Race Studies.org Steve Riley to the podcast this week. In his words, Riley began Mixed Race Studies in April of 2009 “in recognition of our…

  • HLA class I variation controlled for genetic admixture in the Gila River Indian Community of Arizona: A model for the Paleo-Indians

    HLA class I variation controlled for genetic admixture in the Gila River Indian Community of Arizona: A model for the Paleo-Indians Human Immunology Volume 33, Issue 1 (January 1992) Pages 39–46 DOI: 10.1016/0198-8859(92)90050-W Robert C. Williams Histocompatibility Laboratory, Blood Systems, Inc., Scottsdale, Arizona Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University Joan E. McAuley Histocompatibility Laboratory, Blood…

  • Anthropology at the Washington Meeting for 1911

    Anthropology at the Washington Meeting for 1911 Science Magazine Volume 35, Number 904 (1912-04-26) pages 665-676 DOI: 10.1126/science.35.904.665 George Grant MacCurdy (1863-1947), Assistant Professor of Archæology Yale University The annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association was held in the United States National Museum, Washington, D. C., December 27-30, 1911, in affiliation with Section H of…

  • Johnny Otis, ‘Godfather of Rhythm and Blues,’ Dies at 90

    Johnny Otis, ‘Godfather of Rhythm and Blues,’ Dies at 90 New York Times 2012-01-19 Ihsan Taylor Johnny Otis, the musician, bandleader, songwriter, impresario, disc jockey and talent scout often called “the godfather of rhythm and blues,” died on Tuesday at his home in Altadena, Calif. He was 90. His death was confirmed by his manager,…