Category: Politics/Public Policy

  • An open letter to President Obama: This is a moral emergency Jewish Journal 2015-06-19 Todd Samuel Presner, Professor and Director, Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies University of California, Los Angeles Dear President Barack Obama, I appreciate your comments on the “heartache and the sadness and the anger” that many Americans are feeling after…

  • From Ferguson to Charleston and Beyond, Anguish About Race Keeps Building The New York Times 2015-06-20 Lydia Polgreen, Johannesburg Bureau Chief Ferguson. Baltimore. Staten Island. North Charleston. Cleveland. Over the past year in each of these American cities, an unarmed black male has died at the hands of a police officer, unleashing a torrent of…

  • Charleston and the Age of Obama The New Yorker 2015-06-19 David Remnick, Editor Between 1882 and 1968, the year Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated, three thousand four hundred and forty-six black men, women, and children were lynched in this country—a practice so vicious and frequent that Mark Twain was moved, in 1901, to write…

  • In a country where being black increases your likelihood of being unemployed, poor, rejected for a bank loan, suspected of wrongdoing and profiled as a criminal, being arrested or even shot by police, the mind boggles at the decision of Rachel Dolezal some years ago to begin posing as an African American woman. Yes perhaps…

  • Mark Duggan’s family lead call for a public inquiry into UK policing The Guardian 2015-06-07 Damien Gayle, Live Desk Reporter Carole Duggan, Duggan’s aunt, said her family had ‘ample evidence’ that police had misled an inquest into his death. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/the Guardian Campaigners say there are deep problems with Operation Trident, which investigates gun…

  • Schools for European and Eurasian children in India: Making of the official policy in colonial India and its contemporary significance Policy Futures in Education Volume 13, Number 3 (April 2015) pages 315-327 DOI: 10.1177/1478210315569040 Heeral Chhabra, M.Phil Research Scholar Department of History University of Delhi, India The history of education in India has been looked…

  • Expats Find Brazil’s Reputation For Race-Blindness Is Undone By Reality Parallels: Many Stories, One World National Public Radio 2015-05-22 Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, South America Correspondent There is a joke among Brazilians that a Brazilian passport is the most coveted on the black market because no matter what your background — Asian, African or European — you…

  • Brazilian Racial Democracy: Reality or Myth? Humboldt Journal of Social Relations Volume 10, Number 1, (Fall/Winter 1982/83): Race & Ethnic Relations: Cross-Cultural Perspectives pages 129-142 Carlos Hasenbalg, Professor of Sociology Instituto Universitário de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro Suellen Huntington University of California, Berkeley The Brazilian claim to “racial democracy” is examined historically. and in…

  • Obama’s Twitter Debut, @POTUS, Attracts Hate-Filled Posts The New York Times 2015-05-21 Julie Hirschfeld Davis, White House Correspondent WASHINGTON — When President Obama sent his inaugural Twitter post from the Oval Office on Monday, the White House heralded the event with fanfare, posting a photograph of him perched on his desk tapping out his message…

  • What’s Radical About “Mixed Race?” Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU 8 Washington Mews New York, New York 10003 Phone: (212) 998-3700 Monday, 2015-04-20, 18:00-20:00 EDT (Local Time) | Free Since the 1990s, mainstream media has heralded the growing population of self-identified “mixed race” people in the US and Canada as material proof of a post-racial era…