Category: Politics/Public Policy

  • Why Latinos won’t become white Al Jazeera America 2014-10-22 Gabriel Arana Assuming Latinos will join the white majority ignores the stark divisions in a racially diverse group In the lead-up to the midterms, President Barack Obama has been parroting the conventional wisdom about the GOP’s future: Republicans are doomed if they keep up their opposition…

  • Maryland’s Never Elected A Black Governor, But Neither Have 47 Other States WYPR 88.1 FM Baltimore Maryland 2014-10-24 Christopher Connelly, Political Reporter Before President Barack Obama joined Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown on stage at a get out the vote rally in Prince George’s County Sunday, Dr. Grainger Browning of Ebenezer A.M.E. Church in Fort Washington…

  • Discussing Race and Education in Brazil HASTAC: Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory 2014-09-12 Christina Davidson Department of History Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Yesterday at lunch, Maria Lúcia and I sat with a graduate of UFRRJ and an Educação a Distancia tutor for the university, who was headed to the Universidade Federal…

  • Mixed Race Irish group seek redress amid claims of racist abuse in industrial schools The Irish Examiner Dublin, Ireland 2014-10-22 Noel Baker, Senior Reporter Mixed Race Irish group seek redress amid claims of racist abuse in industrial schools Mixed-race Irish who spent time in industrial schools will today claim they faced physical, emotional, and sexual…

  • Dorothy Roberts Lecture: “Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race” McMaster University CIBC Hall, McMaster University Student Centre (MUSC 319) 280 Main Street West Hamilton, Ontario, L8S4L9, Canada 2014-10-23, 19:00-21:00 EDT (Local Time) The Bourns Lectureship in Bioethics and the McMaster Centre for Scholarship in the Public Interest present a lecture by Dorothy Roberts, George…

  • Ebola has exposed America’s fear, and Barack Obama’s vulnerability The Guardian 2014-10-19 Gary Younge The virus is a metaphor for all that conservatives loathe, and sees the president’s policies under renewed attack In a column ostensibly explaining why moderates struggle in the Republican party, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen last year wrote: “People with conventional…

  • Does Diversity Breed Intolerance? BU Today Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 2014-09-25 Rich Barlow, Staff Writer Telephone: 617-358-3877 Some whites fear impending minority status, research says “Diversity” is said to be the sun of our civic solar system, shining bright harmony everywhere from society at large to university campuses. Katherine Levine Einstein is certainly an apostle…

  • Kaine pushes for Indian recognition Sulfolk News-Herald Suffolk, Virginia 2014-10-02 Tracy Agnew, News Editor U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) is making another push to recognize six Virginia Indian tribes, including the Nansemond, through his support of a proposed rule that would bring more flexibility to the process. The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of…

  • Miranda Kaufmann Lecture ‘Africans in Port Towns – 1500-1640’ University of Greenwich Queen Anne 180 – Greenwich Campus Greenwich, England Wednesday, 2014-10-15, 18:00-19:00 BST (Local Time) Dr. Miranda Kaufmann will explore the lives of Africans in 16th and 17th century England and Scotland’s port towns, explaining how they arrived in Britain and how they were…

  • Special report: Why Brazil’s would-be first black president trails among blacks Reuters 2014-10-03 Brian Winter, Chief Correspondent SAO PAULO – Brazilians could make history this month by electing Marina Silva, the daughter of impoverished rubber tappers from the Amazon, as their first black president. Yet Silva is trailing incumbent President Dilma Rousseff, who is white,…