Category: Politics/Public Policy

  • Mixed race vote key to Cape Town in S. Africa polls The Citizen 2011-05-16 Justine Gerardy Fruit seller Amien Cox will put his hopes on a white woman in South Africa’s local polls on Wednesday, 17 years after the fall of the racist apartheid regime that denied an all-race vote. CAPE TOWN – Fruit seller…

  • Toward a Racial Abyss: Eugenics, Wickliffe Draper, and the Origins of the Pioneer Fund Journal of History of the Behavioral Sciences Volume 38, Issue 3, (Summer 2002) pages 259–283 DOI: 10:1002/jhbs.10063 Michael G. Kenny, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia The Pioneer Fund was created in 1937 “to conduct or…

  • From the “half-breed” to the “tragic mulatto”: The race integration film in the fifties and the struggle for social equality New York University May 2007 435 pages Publication Number: AAT 3269779 ISBN: 9780549099536 Ryan Daniel DeRosa, Assistant Professor of Film Studies Ohio University A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree…

  • Negroes: Miscegenation Time Magazine 1923-07-23 Protests of Negro organizations from many parts of the country, descending about the ears of a Senator, caused him to change his mind. Senator [Arthur] Capper of Kansas is leader of the farm bloc and of the “marriage bloc”—if such a thing there is. In the last Congress he brought…

  • Are we all ‘coloured’? News 24 (South Africa) 2011-03-09 Max Du Preez We really need to find new terminology for the different population groups in South Africa, especially now that we’re moving back into a political culture of obsession with race. Problem One: if “coloured” means people of mixed blood, then the vast majority of…

  • Birthers’ shameful racist roots The Boston Globe 2011-05-02 James Carroll It was not up to President Obama to label the birther movement as racist in his extraordinary address on the subject last week, but plenty of commentary has done it for him. There can be no doubt that the lurid contempt shown to the president…

  • Breaking the Black-White Binary Fathom: the source for online learning Columbia University 2002 Gary Okihiro, Professor of International and Public Affairs Columbia University Where do Asians fall in the American construct of race? According to Gary Okihiro, the director of Columbia University’s Center for Race and Ethnicity, the position of Asians has had to be…

  • Editorial: Implications of racial distinctions for body composition and its diagnostic assessment American Journal of Clinical Nutrition Volume 71, Number 6 (June 2000) pages 1387-1389 Print ISSN: 0002-9165; Online ISSN: 1938-3207 Noel W. Solomons, Scientific Director and co-Founder Center for Studies of Sensory Impairment, Aging and Metabolism (CeSSIAM) Shiriki Kumanyika, Professor of Epidemiology University of…

  • Half of the loonies in this country don’t think President Obama is American, the other half don’t think he’s Black. Steven F. Riley, e-mail message to professor, April 30, 2011.

  • Multiracal In America Ebony Magazine May 2011 Adam Serwer In The Mix: Being Biracial in America When President Barack Obama checked “Black” on his census form last April, it was an actual news story. The Associated Press subhed [sub-headline] was lined with implicit anguish: “President Ticks One Box Concerning Racial Heritage on U.S. Census Form,…