Mixed Race Studies

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  • Kaa-tipeyimishoyaahk – ‘We are those who own ourselves’: A Political History of Métis Self-Determination in the North-West, 1830-1870

    Kaa-tipeyimishoyaahk – ‘We are those who own ourselves’: A Political History of Métis Self-Determination in the North-West, 1830-1870 University of Victoria, British Columbia 2014 394 pages Adam James Patrick Gaudry Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in the Department of Indigenous Governance This dissertation offers an…

  • Advancing Health Through A Racial Lens: The New Biopolitics of Race, Health, and Justice

    Advancing Health Through A Racial Lens: The New Biopolitics of Race, Health, and Justice University of Maryland, College Park Stamp Student Union Banneker Room 2212 Thursday, 2014-02-20, 12:30-15:00 EST (Local Time) Moderated by: Dorothy Roberts J.D., Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology, and the inaugural Raymond Pace and…

  • In meetings with young black men, Obama tries to leave a mark

    In meetings with young black men, Obama tries to leave a mark The Washington Post 2014-02-09 Zachary A. Goldfarb, Staff Writer CHICAGO – Kerron Turner sat with more than a dozen other teenagers in a classroom at Hyde Park Academy High School on this city’s troubled South Side, nervously settling in for an unusual meeting…

  • The Global Obama: Crossroads of Leadership in the 21st Century

    The Global Obama: Crossroads of Leadership in the 21st Century Routledge 2013-11-29 344 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-1-84872-625-3 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-84872-626-0 Edited by: Dinesh Sharma, Senior Fellow Institute for International and Cross-Cultural Research St. Francis College, New York Uwe P. Gielen, Founder and Executive Director Institute for International and Cross-Cultural Psychology St. Francis College, New York…

  • Skin color remains big barrier

    Skin color remains big barrier The Korea Times 2014-01-27 Park Si-soo Min Kyung-joon (alias) is a “good boy” in many aspects. The freshman at a middle school in Ansan, Gyeonggi Province, has been acknowledged by his teachers for his outstanding academic achievement and affable personality. Min is also very actively engaged in sports, which explains…

  • A Man Called White: The Autobiography of Walter White

    The life story of a man who crossed the color line to fight for civil rights

  • Going the Distance: On and off the road with Barack Obama.

    Going the Distance: On and off the road with Barack Obama. The New Yorker 2014-01-27 David Remnick, Editor Obama’s Presidency is on the clock. Hard as it has been to pass legislation, the coming year is a marker, the final interval before the fight for succession becomes politically all-consuming. On the Sunday afternoon before Thanksgiving,…

  • Brazil Endorses International Decade for People of African Descent

    Brazil Endorses International Decade for People of African Descent Americas Quarterly: The Policy Journal for Our Hemisphere Blog 2014-01-16 Shari Wejsa On Monday, December 23, 2013, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution establishing the International Decade for People of African Descent, which will run from January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2024. The…

  • Dr. Eliot Favors Racial Dead Line

    Dr. Eliot Favors Racial Dead Line The New York Times 1909-03-15 page 3 Declares the South’s Future Depends On the Whites Preserving Their Integrity MISQUOTED IN INTERVIEW Did Not Say That Irish and Italians Furnished Race Problem for North Like Negroes In South ATLANTA, Ga., March 14.—Sharply denying that he had been taken to task…