Category: Politics/Public Policy

  • Northern Ireland’s most (un)wanted Media Diversified 2014-07-28 Jayne Olorunda Northern Ireland’s capital, Belfast has had many songs written about it. The lyrics of one Belfast song resonates in my ear as I think of the reputation the city now has. The lyrics of the song always stood out to me, but now they are more…

  • Checking new boxes Gender News The Clayman Institute for Gender Research Stanford University 2014-07-23 Ashley Farmer, Postdoctoral Fellow Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research Political Scientist Lauren Davenport reveals the importance of gender in understanding multiracialism Since 2000, the year the U.S. census first allowed respondents to identify as multiracial or multiethnic, the number…

  • Obama has 44 cousins in the Senate. Now can’t we all just get along? The Guardian 204-08-07 A J Jacobs Forget the president’s Tea Party cousin or Washington animosity. My research shows that we’re all part of one big family. A dysfunctional one, but still – come on, cousins! It’s been a tough week for…

  • American Race and Charismatic License: Finding Martín de Porres in Obama Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal Volume 97, Number 3, 2014 pages 376-384 DOI: 10.1353/sij.2014.0018 Chris Garces, Assistant Professor of Anthropology Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Problematizing the saintly reputation of seventeenth-century Dominican servant Martín de Porres, this article explores a little-known, late medieval Spanish form…

  • ‘The concept of race is a slippery slope’: Ullenhag The Local: Sweden’s News in English 2014-08-01 Solveig Rundquist Integration Minister Erik Ullenhag tells The Local why he plans to remove the term “race” from all Swedish law, how he responds to his critics, and why Sweden must steer clear of xenophobia. The decision has been…

  • Race to be scrapped from Swedish legislation The Local: Sweden’s News in English 2014-07-31 Solveig Rundquist The Swedish government announced that it plans to remove all mentions of race from Swedish legislation, saying that race is a social construct which should not be encouraged in law. “We know that different human races actually do not…

  • Fatal Invention with Dorothy Roberts Research at the National Archives and Beyond BlogTalk Radio Thursday, 2014-07-24, 21:00 EDT, (Friday, 2014-07-25, 01:00Z) Bernice Bennett, Host Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology; Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights University of Pennsylvania Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and…

  • Census Data Confusion, Manipulation, and Latinos of Mixed Ancestry or “Should Latino be a Race?” Presented at The Second Annual Mixed Heritage Conference University of California, Los Angeles 2014-04-16 Thomas Lopez, President Multiracial Americans of Southern California (MASC) Multiracial Americans President Thomas Lopez delivers a talk on changing the Census categories to allow Latino to…

  • Race and the Obama Phenomenon: The Vision of a More Perfect Multiracial Union University Press of Mississippi 2014-07-17 432 pages 6 X 9 inches 3 B&W photographs Hardcover ISBN: 9781628460216 Edited by: G. Reginald Daniel, Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara Hettie V. Williams, Lecturer of African American History Monmouth University, West Long…

  • Attorney General Holder is right: Racial animus plays role in Obama opposition Southern Poverty Law Center 2014-07-16 Morris Dees, Founder, Chief Trial Attorney Right-wing pundits are jumping all over Attorney General Eric Holder for daring to suggest on Sunday that “racial animus” plays a role in the “level of vehemence” that’s been directed at President…