Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Category: Social Justice
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What Happened in Missouri Puts the Nation on Notice Time 2015-11-10 Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., William S. Tod Professor of Religion and African-American Studies Princeton University Imagine what could happen at Ohio State or UCLA or any other major university. The activists already have. What happened at the University of Missouri has sent shockwaves throughout…
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“It’s difficult in Brazil to point out racism,” says Alexandre Ciconello, a human rights expert and adviser to Amnesty in Rio de Janeiro. “It’s a taboo for the elite of the country and for politicians and authorities. They always say ‘Brazil is a mixed country, we are not the US, we are not South Africa,’…
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The police committed more than 1 in every 6 of Rio de Janeiro’s homicides between 2010 and 2013.
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Goucher Social Justice Committee Presents: Rosa Clemente Goucher College Kelly Lecture Hall 1021 Dulaney Valley Road Baltimore, Maryland Thursday, 2015-10-29, 18:00 EDT (Local Time) Rosa Clemente is a Black Puerto Rican grassroots organizer, hip-hop activist, journalist, and entrepreneur. She was the vice presidential running mate of 2008 Green Party Presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney in the…
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Designing Afro-Latino Curriculum for Self-Determination Zambombazo 2015-10-23 Zachary & Betsy Jones Introduction During the 2015 Afrolatino Festival of New York in a panel discussion on the contextualization of blackness, William Garcia briefly mentioned working to implement Afro-Latino curriculum in schools, which greatly intrigued us. Thus, we reached out to him to learn more. His amazingly…
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I had heard of Wild Goose Festival from friends who had braved the woods in years past, but I wasn’t sure it was my kind of thing. I certainly didn’t expect to be a part of the gathering anytime soon. Then my friend Micky asked me to attend. She wanted to know if I would…
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“That’s one of the fundamental paradoxes of Obama’s presidency — that we have the Black Lives Matter movement under a black president,” says Fredrick Harris, a political scientist at Columbia University. “Your man is in office, and you have this whole movement around criminal-justice reform asserting black people’s humanity?” Jennifer Senior, “The Paradox of the…
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As the historic administration nears its final year, African-American leaders debate: Did Barack Obama do enough for his own community?
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Jesse Williams: ‘Celebrity culture? I am not going to participate in that’ The Guardian 2015-10-01 Jana Kasperkevic The Grey’s Anatomy star is back on screen as TV pin-up Jackson Avery, but for the former teacher it’s his civil rights work he wants people to talk about There is a heatwave making its way through Los…
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The Hip Hop & Obama Reader Oxford University Press 2015-10-14 336 Pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches Hardcover ISBN: 9780199341801 Paperback ISBN: 9780199341818 Edited by: Travis L. Gosa, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Erik Nielson, Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts University of Richmond Offers a comprehensive, scholarly analysis of the relationship…