Category: Politics/Public Policy

  • Williams: A positive among the attack ads in the Gecker-Sturtevant race Richmond Times-Dispatch Richmond, Virginia 2015-11-02 Michael Paul Williams, Columnist During the 2000 Republican primary in South Carolina, John McCain was the target of a whisper campaign that he’d fathered a black child out of wedlock. McCain, who in reality had an adopted Bangladeshi daughter,…

  • BU community urged to increase open, uncomfortable conversation The Daily Free Press The independent student newspaper at Boston University ISSN 1094-7337 2015-11-03 Joe Becker Keynote speaker and comedian W. Kamau Bell speaks about his mixed race children during “Let’s Talk About It,” a dialogue about race, identity and social action, on Monday night. PHOTO BY…

  • Author Meets Reader: Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics and Big Business Recreate Race in the Twenty-First Century by Dorothy Roberts University of California, Irvine School of Law 401 E. Peltason Drive Irvine, California Room 3500 Monday, 2015-11-02, 18:30 PST (Local Time) Sponsored by the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy and the Center on…

  • Is race a choice? VOX: CEPR’s Policy Portal Research-based policy analysis and commentary from leading economists Centre for Economic Policy Research 2015-01-26 Emily Nix, PhD candidate in Economics Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Nancy Qian, Associate Professor of Economics Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Race is usually treated as a fixed, exogenous characteristic in academic…

  • It is a matter of regret that in organizing the twelfth census it was determined to attempt no separate enumeration of the mulatto element of our population, — using the term in its popular sense, as denoting all persons having any admixture of white and negro blood. It will not do to say that the…

  • Goucher Social Justice Committee Presents: Rosa Clemente Goucher College Kelly Lecture Hall 1021 Dulaney Valley Road Baltimore, Maryland Thursday, 2015-10-29, 18:00 EDT (Local Time) Rosa Clemente is a Black Puerto Rican grassroots organizer, hip-hop activist, journalist, and entrepreneur. She was the vice presidential running mate of 2008 Green Party Presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney in the…

  • Global Families: A History of Asian International Adoption in America New York University Press October 2013 244 pages 17 halftones Cloth ISBN: 9780814717226 Paper ISBN: 9781479892174 Catherine Ceniza Choy, Professor of Ethnic Studies University of California, Berkeley In the last fifty years, transnational adoption—specifically, the adoption of Asian children—has exploded in popularity as an alternative…

  • Race In R.I.: The Invisible Natives The Providence Journal Providence, Rhode Island 2015-10-24 G. Wayne Miller, Journal Staff Writer Their ancestors were the state’s original settlers, but today’s Indians say whites ‘don’t even see us’ First of two parts EXETER – On this fine autumn morning, Paulla Dove Jennings welcomes a visitor into her home…

  • Young Mr. Obama: Chicago and the Making of a Black President Bloomsbury Press 2010 288 pages 5 1/2″ x 8 1/4″ Hardback ISBN: 9781608190607 Edward McClelland Barack Obama’s inspirational politics and personal mythology have overshadowed his fascinating history. Young Mr. Obama gives us the missing chapter: the portrait of the politician as a young leader,…

  • Cook: Race and the practice of medicine The Casper Star Tribune Casper, Wyoming 2015-10-24 Edith Cook Edith Cook/Perspective We now know once and for all that race is not a biological phenomenon but a social construct. The Human Genome Project, completed in 2000, established that, genetically, all of us human beings are more than 99.9…