Mixed Race Studies

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  • Nevada GOP lawmaker to ‘colored’ colleague: Racism is over because the president is black

    Nevada GOP lawmaker to ‘colored’ colleague: Racism is over because the president is black Raw Story 2015-03-18 David Ferguson The Nevada state Assemblywoman who believes that cancer is a “fungus” that can be flushed from the body with saline solution has now said that she believes that racism in her state is a thing of…

  • Millennials Are More Racist Than They Think

    Millennials Are More Racist Than They Think Politico Magazine 2015-03-09 Sean McElwee Just Look at the Numbers News about race in America these days is almost universally negative. Longstanding wealth, income and employment gaps between whites and people of color are increasing, and tensions between police and minority communities around the country are on the…

  • IRRPP Annual Bowman Lecture: Fatal Invention: Why The Politics of Race and Science Still Matters

    IRRPP Annual Bowman Lecture: Fatal Invention: Why The Politics of Race and Science Still Matters Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy University of Illinois, Chicago Student Center East 750 S. Halsted St, Room 302 Chicago, Illinois 2015-03-12, 16:00 CDT (Local Time) Dorothy Roberts, Professor of Law and Sociology University of Pennsylvania Co-sponsors: Medical…

  • Don’t Starve the Census

    Don’t Starve the Census The New York Times 2015-03-10 The Editorial Board Some Republicans in Congress are calling for cuts to the Census Bureau’s budget that would impair the agency’s already strained ability to gather basic data. An accurate census is essential to determining the correct number of representatives from each state, the effectiveness of…

  • Signifying without Specifying: Racial Discourse in the Age of Obama

    Signifying without Specifying: Racial Discourse in the Age of Obama Rutgers University Press 2011-11-01 218 Pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-5143-2 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-5144-9 eBook ISBN: 978-0-8135-5210-1 Stephanie Li, Professor of English Indiana University, Bloomington On the campaign trail, Barack Obama faced a difficult task—rallying African American voters while resisting his opponents’ attempts to frame him as…

  • Obama, at Selma Memorial, Says, ‘We Know the March Is Not Over Yet’

    Obama, at Selma Memorial, Says, ‘We Know the March Is Not Over Yet’ The New York Times 2015-03-07 Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent Richard Fausset Doug Mills/The New York Times SELMA, Ala. — As a new generation struggles over race and power in America, President Obama and a host of political figures from both…

  • Urging Persistence on Racial Gains, Obama Recalls Sacrifice in Selma

    Urging Persistence on Racial Gains, Obama Recalls Sacrifice in Selma The New York Times 2015-03-06 Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent Julie Hirschfeld Davis, White House Correspondent COLUMBIA, S.C. — For the nation’s first African-American president, it was a week of two documents that told the story of a country still grappling with its own…

  • Gordon Fox Pleads Guilty in Rhode Island Corruption Case

    Gordon Fox Pleads Guilty in Rhode Island Corruption Case The New York Times 2015-03-03 Richard Pérez-Peña The climb took decades, but the fall was swift. Less than a year removed from his reign as speaker of the Rhode Island House, Gordon D. Fox pleaded guilty on Tuesday to taking bribes, wire fraud and filing a…

  • Interracial Intimacies: An Examination of Powerful Men and Their Relationships across the Color Line

    Unique among books on interracial relationships, this book examines the lives of high profile men who have produced public discourses on race and interracial relationships and who themselves, often contradictory to their rhetoric, were or continue to be involved in love relationships across the color line.

  • Because of Our Success: The Changing Racial and Ethnic Ancestry of Blacks on Affirmative Action

    Because of Our Success: The Changing Racial and Ethnic Ancestry of Blacks on Affirmative Action Carolina Academic Press December 2014 404 pages Paper ISBN: 978-1-61163-444-0 Kevin Brown, Richard S. Melvin Professor of Law Maurer School of Law Indiana University When selective colleges, universities, and graduate programs instituted affirmative action policies in the 1960s, 99.4 percent…