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  • The Preacher and the Politician: Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama, and Race in America

    The Preacher and the Politician: Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama, and Race in America University of Virginia Press October 2009 160 pages 5 1/2x 81/4 Cloth ISBN: 0-8139-2886-9 Clarence E. Walker, Professor of History University of California, Davis Gregory D. Smithers, Visiting Associate Professor of History Virginia Commonwealth University Barack Obama’s inauguration as the first African American president of…

  • Documentary Genocide: Families Surnames on Racial Hit List

    Documentary Genocide: Families Surnames on Racial Hit List Richmond Times-Dispatch 2000-03-05 Peter Hardin, Former Washington Correspondent   Long before the Indian woman gave birth to a baby boy, Virginia branded him with a race other than his own.   The young Monacan Indian mother delivered her son at Lynchburg General Hospital in 1971. Proud of…

  • Race and Ethnicity in Society: The Changing Landscape, 3rd Edition

    Race and Ethnicity in Society: The Changing Landscape, 3rd Edition Cengage Learning 2012 480 pages ISBN-10: 1111519536; ISBN-13: 9781111519537 Edited by Elizabeth Higginbotham, Professor of Sociology, Women’s Studies, and Criminology University of Delaware Margaret L. Andersen, Edward F. and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor of Sociology University of Delaware This engaging reader is organized in four…

  • Bill John Baker named official winner in Cherokee chief election

    Bill John Baker named official winner in Cherokee chief election Tusla World 2011-10-13 Lenzy Krehbiel-Burton, World Correspondent TAHLEQUAH – Bill John Baker is now officially principal chief-elect of the Cherokee Nation. About 1:45 p.m. Wednesday, the Cherokee Nation Election Commission certified the results from the tribe’s special election. The certified results show Baker defeating former…

  • White: The Biography of Walter White, Mr. NAACP

    White: The Biography of Walter White, Mr. NAACP The New Press Fall 2002 496 pages Trim: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-56584-773-6 Kenneth R. Janken, Professor, African and Afro-American Studies University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill A publishing landmark, the first biography of the man who brought the NAACP to national prominence From…

  • PLAIN PEOPLE: Is There Anywhere?…

    PLAIN PEOPLE: Is There Anywhere?… Time Magazine 1946-03-11 Prewar Britain’s Negro problem was as minuscule as prewar Britain’s Negro population. But the 70,000 U.S. Negro troops who served in Britain during the war left behind hundreds of illegitimate mulatto babies. Last fortnight London’s League of Colored Peoples reported that already 544 children of U.S. Negro…

  • The right colour

    The right colour Index on Censorship Volume 28, Issue 1, 1999 Special Issue: The Last Empire pages 110-114 DOI: 10.1080/03064229908536514 Daniela Cestarollo Five hundred years after the arrival of the Portuguese, Brazilians are only Just beginning to address the legacy of slavery Brazil is at last revealing its other face. After 500 years of seeking…

  • Mixed Britannia, BBC Two, review

    Mixed Britannia, BBC Two, review The Telegraph 2011-10-06 Josephine Moulds Josephine Moulds reviews the first episode of BBC Two’s documentary Mixed Britannia, presented by George Alagiah. The first part of an ambitious documentary series, Mixed Britannia, ran last night, continuing BBC Two’s season about mixed-race life in the UK. Over the course of three programmes,…

  • Obama and the Politics of blackness: Antiracism in the “post-black” Conjuncture

    Obama and the Politics of blackness: Antiracism in the “post-black” Conjuncture Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics Culture and Society Volume 12, Issue 4 (2010) pages 313-322 DOI: 10.1080/10999949.2010.526046 Ben Pitcher, Lecturer in Sociology University of Westminster, London This article sets out think about some of the challenges to U.S. antiracism heralded by Barack…

  • ‘Breed out the Colour’ or the Importance of Being White

    ‘Breed out the Colour’ or the Importance of Being White Australian Historical Studies Volume 33, Issue 120 (2002) pages 286-302 DOI: 10.1080/10314610208596220 Russell McGregor, Associate Professor of History James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia This article examines inter-war proposals to ‘breed out the colour’ of Aborigines of mixed descent. Positioning these proposals in the context…