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  • Shifting Discourses: Exploring the Tensions between the Myth of Racial Democracy And the Implementation of Affirmative Action Policies in Brazil

    Shifting Discourses: Exploring the Tensions between the Myth of Racial Democracy And the Implementation of Affirmative Action Policies in Brazil Center for Latin American Social Policy – CLASPO Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies Summer Research Report University of Texas at Austin September 2005 29 pages Raquel Luciana de Souza 1. INTRODUCTION Are the…

  • Barack Obama’s Address to the 2004 Democratic National Convention: Trauma, Compromise, Consilience, and the (Im)possibility of Racial Reconciliation

    Barack Obama’s Address to the 2004 Democratic National Convention: Trauma, Compromise, Consilience, and the (Im)possibility of Racial Reconciliation Rhetoric & Public Affairs Volume 8, Number 4, Winter 2005 pages 571-593 DOI: 10.1353/rap.2006.0006 David A. Frank, Professor of Rhetoric Robert D. Clark Honors College University of Oregon Mark Lawrence McPhail, Dean of The College of Arts…

  • Time to drop racial categories in census

    Time to drop racial categories in census The Chicago Tribune 2012-08-16 Arthur Caplan, Director of Division of Medical Ethics Department of Population Health New York University The U.S. Census Bureau announced that it wants to make a number of changes in how it counts membership in a race. The change is based on an experiment…

  • Susan Graham Discusses Project RACE

    Susan Graham Discusses Project RACE Mixed Race Radio 2012-08-15, 17:00Z (12:00 EDT, 09:00 PDT) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host Susan Graham, Executive Director Project RACE Project RACE (Reclassify All Children Equally) members are the national advocates for multiracial children, teens, adults, and our families. Project RACE was started in 1990, so we are in our 22nd…

  • Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century

    A decade after the Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race, the emerging fields of personalized medicine, reproductive technologies, genetic genealogy, and DNA databanks are attempting to resuscitate race as a biological category written in our genes.

  • From deracialization to racial distinction: interpreting Obama’s successful racial narrative

    From deracialization to racial distinction: interpreting Obama’s successful racial narrative Social Semiotics Volume 23, Issue 1 (2013) pages 119-145 DOI: 10.1080/10350330.2012.707039 Charlton McIlwain, Associate Professor of Media, Culture and Communication New York University While many scholars attribute Barack Obama’s success in the 2008 presidential election to his so-called deracialized campaign strategy, I argue that Obama…

  • Brazil Approves University Affirmative Action Bill

    Brazil Approves University Affirmative Action Bill Associated Press 2012-08-08 Stan Lehman San Paulo—The Brazilian Senate has approved an affirmative action bill that reserves half the spots in federal universities for high school graduates of public schools, and distributes them according to the racial makeup of each state. The Senate’s news agency says the bill that…

  • Is Obama Now Black (Enough) Because He’s White?

    Is Obama Now Black (Enough) Because He’s White? The Huffington Post 2012-08-02 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University With the November election less than 100 days away, the Obama campaign continues to come up against questions about the president’s racial identity. Most recently, reports that the president is “passing,” or claiming that he’s representing…

  • Is Being Biracial an Advantage for Obama?

    Is Being Biracial an Advantage for Obama? ABC News 2008-03-21 Emily Friedman The son of a black man and a white woman, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., says he’s seen and heard it all.   From his grandmother’s fear of black men on the street to his former pastor’s perceived anti-American rants, Obama said Tuesday that…

  • What Miscegenation is! And What We are to Expect Now That Mr. Lincoln is Re-elected

    What Miscegenation is! And What We are to Expect Now That Mr. Lincoln is Re-elected Waller & Willets, Publishers, New York c. 1865 8 pages Source: Harvard University via The Hathi Trust Digital Library L. Seaman, LL. D. “What, is Miscegenation?” is an oft repeated inquiry. A word not recognized by Webster, Johnson, or Worcester,…