Mixed Race Studies

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  • Op-Ed Thomas Chatterton Williams: My black privilege

    Op-Ed Thomas Chatterton Williams: My black privilege The Los Angeles Times 2016-01-03 Thomas Chatterton Williams A couple of years ago, I participated in an Aspen Institute symposium on the state of race. During the roundtable that followed the panels, as I spoke about my experiences growing up black in the 1990s, I was interrupted by…

  • Young Gifted Black

    Young Gifted Black Isthmus Madison, Wisconsin 2015-05-01 Allison Geyer, Staff Writer Fiery activist group praised and panned for disruptive protests in name of racial equality Dozens of protesters with the Young, Gifted and Black Coalition marched on March 19 to a mayoral forum at the Barrymore Theatre, where two white, progressive mayoral candidates were preparing…

  • On Obama

    On Obama Routledge 2015-11-04 134 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780415525473 Hardback ISBN: 9780415525466 Paul C. Talyor, Associate Professor of Philosophy and African American Studies Pennsylvania State University On Obama examines some of the key philosophical questions that accompany the historic emergence of the 44th US president. The purpose of this book is to take seriously the…

  • Not Ready

    Not Ready North Bay Bohemian Santa Rosa, California 2015-12-31 Tom Gogola, News Editor 2015 was an ugly year in America When the question is asked near the beginning—”Is America ready for its first black president?”— it needs to be answered near the end. And as Barack Obama comes into the homestretch of his term in…

  • The Race Relations Act at 50: Davina’s story

    The Race Relations Act at 50: Davina’s story BBC Radio 5 In Short 2015-12-07 It is 50 years since Britain’s first Race Relations Act was passed, banning racial discrimination in public places. Davina Looker, an English teacher and blogger from London has spoken to BBC Radio 5 live about her “desperate” search to find an…

  • Obama’s skin looks a little different in these GOP campaign ads

    Obama’s skin looks a little different in these GOP campaign ads The Washington Post 2015-12-29 Max Ehrenfreund A new study shows that negative ads targeting President Obama in 2008 depicted him with very dark skin, and that these images would have appealed to some viewers’ racial biases. The finding reinforces charges that some Republican politicians…

  • Bias in the Flesh: Skin Complexion and Stereotype Consistency in Political Campaigns

    Bias in the Flesh: Skin Complexion and Stereotype Consistency in Political Campaigns Public Opinion Quarterly First published online: 2015-12-17 DOI: 10.1093/poq/nfv046 Solomon Messing, Director of Data Labs Pew Research Center, Washington, D.C. Maria Jabon, Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn, Mountain View, California Ethan Plaut, Postdoctoral Fellow Stanford University, Stanford, California Researchers manipulated the tone of President…

  • A More Perfect Union: Black Freedoms, White Houses

    A More Perfect Union: Black Freedoms, White Houses Public Culture Volume 28, Number 1, January 2016 pages 63-87 DOI: 10.1215/08992363-3325016 Jasmine Nichole Cobb, Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois President Barack Obama signifies both the power of the institutional presidency and the legacy of black freedom struggles. His post in…

  • Taken Identity

    Taken Identity The UC Santa Barbara Current Santa Barbara, California 2015-12-21 Jim Logan A new book by a UC Santa Barbara historian traces the bright and fuzzy lines of race in America The United States’ long record on race is, shall we say, checkered. Even in a time when an African-American sits in the White…

  • Making Blackness, Making Policy

    Making Blackness, Making Policy argues that blackness and black people are literally made rather than discovered. The social construction of blackness involves the naming of individuals as black, and the subsequent interaction between this naming and racial projects. The process of naming involves an intersubjective dialogue in which racial self-identification and ascription by others lead…