Category: Politics/Public Policy

  • How beliefs in biological differences can undergird racial and policy attitudes The London School of Economics and Political Science 2015-08-24 W. Carson Byrd, Assistant Professor of Pan-African Studies University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky Beliefs in biological differences between racial groups linger in both scientific and public discourse. Recent advances in genetics and genomics influence public…

  • The Risks of Turning Races Into Genes The Huffington Post 2015-08-20 Matthew W. Hughey, Professor of Sociology University of Connecticut From 22-25 August, sociologists from around the nation and world will descend upon the Windy City of Chicago to discuss sundry issues as they participate in the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association. One…

  • On Martha’s Vineyard, black elites ponder the past year Politico 2015-08-22 Sara Wheaton, White House Reporter As Obama vacations on the island, an upper-class gathering grapples with a year of unrest. EDGARTOWN, Mass. – For America’s black elite, this year’s seasonal sojourn to Martha’s Vineyard turned into a soul-searching retreat. The shooting of a young,…

  • ETHS 306 : Politics of Mixed Racial Identity Metropolitan State University, Saint Paul, Minnesota 2002-08-24 to Present This course focuses on the phenomenon of mixed race descent in the United States. For comparative purposes, the course also explores the topic in relation to other nations. Included in the course are historical perspectives, and exploration of…

  • Mark Duggan: mother of man shot dead by police in 2011 calls for urgent inquiry The Guardian 2015-08-04 Diane Taylor Pamela Duggan claims police could have done much more to track down the man who supplied a weapon to her son. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA Call for new inquiry comes as demonstrators prepare to march to…

  • Race, love, hate, and me: A distinctly American story Daily Kos 2015-08-20 Shaun King [Shaun King] 14 years old. Sophomore in high school Over the past 72 hours I have been attacked with lies by the conservative media, lies that have been picked up by the traditional media and spread further. I have kept silent…

  • The Shaun King controversy, explained Vox 2015-08-20 German Lopez, Staff writer Shaun King (Source: Twitter) Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King is currently at the center of a controversy that has nothing to do with a police shooting or brutality — it’s, instead, about his personal life and racial identity. Over the past several weeks,…

  • Beauty pageants, blackface, and bigotry: Japan’s problems with racism The Wilson Quarterly Washington, D.C. 2015-07-23 Maya Wesby Photograph via Twitter Bearing a false belief of racial singularity and superiority, can Japanese culture ever embrace diversity in an ever-intertwining world? In most developed nations, issues of race occupy headlines and are components, unstated or overt, of…

  • Exploring Racial Bias Among Biracial and Single-Race Adults: The IAT Pew Research Center 2015-08-19 Rich Morin, Senior Editor This report summarizes the results of an online experiment that utilized an Implicit Association Test (IAT) to measure racial bias in single-race whites, blacks, Asians and biracial adults with a white and black or a white and…

  • DNA Shows Warren Harding Wasn’t America’s First Black President The New York Times 2015-08-18 Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent WASHINGTON — Bill Clinton was called the first black president because he crossed racial lines so easily, a distinction he lost when Barack Obama became the first actual black president. But for decades, some Americans…