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  • Bigots beware – you have fewer places to hide in mixed-heritage Britain

    Bigots beware – you have fewer places to hide in mixed-heritage Britain The Guardian 2015-04-26 Hugh Muir The makeup of Britain is changing. Anyone who thinks they can get away with casual racism is making a big mistake The Runnymede Trust’s report on Race and Elections tells us that one of the groups least likely…

  • Wrightsville Beach alderman pressured to resign after insult against bartender

    Wrightsville Beach alderman pressured to resign after insult against bartender StarNews Wilmington, North Carolina 2015-04-17 Julian March WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH | Alderman Darryl Mills is facing pressure to resign after he used derogatory language to a bartender last month. Mills made the comment to Mia Banks while she was working at King Neptune Restaurant on North…

  • Color Blindness and Racial Politics in the Era of Obama

    Color Blindness and Racial Politics in the Era of Obama Books & Ideas 2010-12-08 Andrew J. Diamond, Professor of American History and Civilization Université Paris-Sorbonne, France At a time when a supposedly “post-racial” America is becoming increasingly polarized over its first black president, historian Thomas Sugrue proposes a badly needed perspective on Obama’s attempts to…

  • Obama’s Mother

    Obama’s Mother Books & Ideas 2009-05-20 Gloria Origgi The American presidential election was won by a woman: Stanley Ann Dunham. Born in 1942, she died of cancer in 1995, shortly after turning 52, and thus without having seen her visionary dream realized: the election of her son, Barack Hussein Obama, as 44th President of the…

  • The Trouble With Race

    The Trouble With Race Foreign Affairs March/April 2015 Gideon Rose, Editor Everybody knows that racial tensions have been at the center of American political debate in recent months, but the story of racial and ethnic division is actually a global one, with a long and tortured history. For the lead package in the March/April issue,…

  • A New Phase in Anti-Obama Attacks

    A New Phase in Anti-Obama Attacks The New York Times 2015-04-11 The Editorial Board It is a peculiar, but unmistakable, phenomenon: As Barack Obama’s presidency heads into its twilight, the rage of the Republican establishment toward him is growing louder, angrier and more destructive. Republican lawmakers in Washington and around the country have been focused…

  • Harlem and After: African American Literature 1925-present (EAS3241)

    Harlem and After: African American Literature 1925-present (EAS3241) University of Exeter Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom 2015-02-08 Taking as its point of departure the landmark special issue of Survey Graphic that announced the arrival on the artistic scene of the “New Negro” (1925), this module provides a historical survey of African American writing, 1925 to present.…

  • Mestizaje and Globalization: Transformations of Identity and Power

    Mestizaje and Globalization: Transformations of Identity and Power University of Arizona Press 2014 264 pages 10 photos, 3 illlustrations, 5 tables 6.00 x 9.00 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8165-3090-8 Stefanie Wickstrom, Senior Lecturer of Political Science Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington Philip D. Young (1936-2013), Professor Emeritus of Anthropology University of Oregon The Spanish word mestizaje does…

  • Kamala Harris, California’s Attorney General, Leaps to Forefront of Senate Race

    Kamala Harris, California’s Attorney General, Leaps to Forefront of Senate Race The New York Times 2015-03-27 Adam Nagourney, Los Angeles Bureau Chief CASTAIC, Calif. — When Kamala D. Harris, a Democrat, was the newly elected district attorney of San Francisco in 2004, she walked into a firestorm after deciding not to pursue the death penalty…

  • The Rock Obama Cold Open – SNL

    The Rock Obama Cold Open – SNL Saturday Night Live National Broadcasting Company (NBC) 2015-03-28 After the actions of Rep. John Boehner (Taran Killam), Sen. Ted Cruz (Bobby Moynihan) and Sen. Tom Cotton (Kyle Mooney) make him lose his cool, President Obama (Jay Pharoah) turns into The Rock Obama (Dwayne Johnson).