Category: Politics/Public Policy

  • The black people ‘erased from history’ BBC News Magazine 2016-04-10 Arlene Gregorius, BBC Mexico More than a million people in Mexico are descended from African slaves and identify as “black”, “dark” or “Afro-Mexican” even if they don’t look black. But beyond the southern state of Oaxaca they are little-known and the community’s leaders are now…

  • The problem for poor, white kids is that a part of their culture has been destroyed The Guardian 2016-04-04 Paul Mason Our culture was the one celebrated in Ken Loach movies … a scene from the film Kes. Photograph: Everett/Rex/Shutterstock Thatcherism didn’t just crush the unions, it crushed a story – as the report that…

  • Voices of Diversity Presents “One Drop of Love” at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center Jeanné Wagner Theatre Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center 138 West 300 South Salt Lake City, Utah 84101 Tuesday, 2016-03-29, 18:00-20:00 MDT (Local Time) 10th Anniversary of the Social Justice Lecture Series: Allies for Equity Presented by Voices of Diversity of The University of…

  • What Obama’s visit means for Cuba’s national conversation about race The Los Angeles Times 2016-03-21 Kate Linthicum, Contact Reporter In recent years, Afro-Cuban intellectuals have started gathering in a cramped Havana apartment to discuss a topic long considered off-limits in Cuba: race. Fidel Castro’s communist revolution 60 years ago promised to wipe out racial divisions…

  • Acknowledging that they are certainly not the first to do so, four scientists, Michael Yudell, Dorothy Roberts, Rob Desalle, and Sarah Tishkoff recently called for the phasing out of the use of the concept/term “race” in biological science…

  • Cuba Says It Has Solved Racism. Obama Isn’t So Sure. The New York Times 2016-03-23 Damien Cave, Deputy Editor for Digital HAVANA — President Obama spoke of his Kenyan heritage. He talked about how both the United States and Cuba were built on the backs of slaves from Africa. He mentioned that not very long…

  • “For seven days in June 2015, Rachel Dolezal captured the news cycle,” writes University of Montana professor, Tobin Shearer, for “Reflections West.”

  • Respectability Politics: When Mixed Race People Police Each Other Mixed Race Feminist Blog 2016-03-17 Nicola Codner Leeds, Yorkshire, United Kingdom Respectability politics relates to the efforts of people in marginalized groups to convince their own group members to conform to the thoughts, values and practices of those in the dominant group, instead of challenging those…

  • WELL! WELL! Goldsboro Weekly Argus Goldsboro, North Carolina Thursday, 1895-02-28 (Volume XVI, Number 67) page 1, column 3 Source: Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. United States Library of Congress. Well, well, well! “Where are we at?” The sudden death of Frederick Douglas, the foremost negro in America, not by deserts but by the combination of…

  • The ‘R’ Word Biteback Publishing 2015-11-27 224 pages Hardback ISBN: 9781849549424 eBook ISBN: 9781785900099 Kurt Barling, Professor of Journalism Middlesex University, London, United Kingdom Race and racism remain an inescapable part of the lives of black people. Daily slights, often rooted in fears and misperceptions of the ‘other’, still damage lives. But does race matter…