Category: Politics/Public Policy

  • The Color of American Genomics: Genetics in the Era of Racialized Medicine University of California, Los Angeles 306 Royce Hall 340 Royce Drive Los Angeles, California 90095 Friday, 2016-12-09, 13:30-16:30 PST (Local Time) SPEAKERS: Michael Montoya, Associate Professor University of California, Irvine Sandra Soo Jin Lee, Senior Research Scholar Stanford University Joan Donovan University of…

  • Guest Shot: Vancouver viaducts removal clears way to honour Hogan’s Alley Vancouver Metro News 2016-11-10 Wayde Compton Vancouver writer Wayde Compton (Ayelet Tsabari/Submitted) Removal of the 1960s downtown infrastructure a chance to create a gathering space, an archive, for future black communities, argues Wayde Compton Last year, Vancouver City Council voted to take the Georgia…

  • The Identity Politics of Whiteness The New York Times Magazine 2016-11-27 Laila Lalami Three years ago, I read “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” to my daughter. She smiled as she heard about Huck’s mischief, his jokes, his dress-up games, but it was his relationship with the runaway slave Jim that intrigued her most. Huck and Jim…

  • Colorism And Privilege: An Afro-Cuban American In Havana FEM: UCLA’s Feminist Newsmagazine Since 1973 2016-04-28 Graciela Barada My father, born in Cuba at the end of Castro’s Revolution, migrated to the United States in 1980. He was a young, black, Spanish-speaking political refugee who left his wife and months-old daughter behind in hopes of building…

  • David Olusoga: ‘There’s a dark side to British history, and we saw a flash of it this summer’ The Guardian 2016-11-04 Arifa Akbar ‘People used to shout “Go back to Africa” at us’ … David Olusoga. Photograph: Martin Godwin for the Guardian The writer and broadcaster on reassessing black history and the fallout from the…

  • Obama Reckons with a Trump Presidency The New Yorker 2016-11-28 David Remnick, Editor Inside a stunned White House, the President considers his legacy and America’s future. The morning after Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, Barack Obama summoned staff members to the Oval Office. Some were fairly junior and had never been…

  • The Myth of a Post-Racial America Literary Hub 2016-11-07 Pamela Newkirk, Professor of Journalism New York University Pamela Newkirk Wonders How Much Further Back We Can Go… For the past eight years, many African-Americans instinctively presumed that the venom spewed at President Obama was on account of his race. More recently, we endured a steady…

  • The End of the Postracial Myth The New York Times Magazine 2016-11-15 Nikole Hannah-Jones Pundits are quick to say that it couldn’t be about prejudice in states like Iowa, where Obama voters went for Trump. But racial anxiety is always close to the surface — and can easily be stoked. On a cold, clear night…

  • Our Kids, Their Fears, Our President? Literary Hub 2016-11-07 Mira Jacob and Emily Raboteau on Raising Children of Color in Trump’s America Writers Mira Jacob and Emily Raboteau conducted this conversation via email during the week before the election, at night after getting their kids to bed. Emily Raboteau: Mira, Lit Hub has invited us…

  • Life in Trump’s America: A mixed-race educator in the rural South speaks The Daily Dot 2016-11-18 Courtney Parker West Photo via Gage Skidmore / Flickr (CC-BY-SA) Photo via dolgachov / GettyImages | Remix by Jason Reed This is the first in a series of essays on what lives look like in post-election America. One woman…