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  • Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective: “The Return of Pseudoscientific Racism? DNA Ancestry Testing, Race, and the New Eugenics Movement”

    Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective: “The Return of Pseudoscientific Racism? DNA Ancestry Testing, Race, and the New Eugenics Movement” Seminar Series: Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective University of California, Merced California Room 5200 North Lake Rd. Merced, California 95343 2013-10-17, 10:30 PDT (Local Time) Paul Spickard, Professor of History University of California, Santa…

  • The Color of Color-Blindness: Whites’ Race Talk in ‘Post-Racial’ America

    The Color of Color-Blindness: Whites’ Race Talk in ‘Post-Racial’ America Reitman/DeGrange Memorial Lecture Series Dartmouth College Hanover, New Hampshire Haldeman 41 (Kreindler Conference Hall) Thursday, 2013-09-26, 16:00-17:30 EDT (Local Time) Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Professor of Sociology Duke University Professor Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Sociology Deptartment Chair at Duke University, will deconstruct whites’ post-racial or color-blind talk & suggest…

  • Mixed People: “Natural Bridges” to Racial Healing & Utopia?

    Mixed People: “Natural Bridges” to Racial Healing & Utopia? Mixed Race Radio Blog Talk Radio 2013-09-04, 16:00Z (12:00 EDT) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host Rainier Spencer, Senior Advisor to the President; Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies; Founder and Director of the Afro-American Studies Program University of Nevada, Las Vegas On today’s episode of Mixed Race Radio we will…

  • The Debate: Multiracial Identity

    The Debate: Multiracial Identity The Agenda with Steve Paikin TVO (TV Ontario) Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2011-07-22, 20:00 EDT (Local Time) Also at: 2011-07-25, 05:00 EDT (Local Time) Piya Chattopadhyay, Host Guests (in order of appearance) Rainier Spencer, Director of the Afro-American Studies Program University of Nevada, Las Vegas (Author of three books on multiracialism including, Reproducing Race:…

  • Saluting a Dream, and Adapting It for a New Era

    Saluting a Dream, and Adapting It for a New Era The New York Times 2013-08-28 Peter Baker and Sheryl Gay Stolberg WASHINGTON — President Obama stepped into the space on Wednesday where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once stood, summoning his iconic dream of a colorblind society in a celebration of a half-century…

  • President, Not Preacher, but Speaking More on Race

    President, Not Preacher, but Speaking More on Race The New York Times 2013-08-27 Peter Baker WASHINGTON — Sitting in the Roosevelt Room with prominent African-American religious leaders, President Obama on Monday mused about how far the nation had come in the 50 years since the March on Washington led by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther…

  • The Politics of Multiracialism in an Anti-Black World

    The Politics of Multiracialism in an Anti-Black World I MiX What I Like! WPFW 89.3 FM, Washington, D.C. 2011-10-07 Jared A. Ball, Host and Associate Professor of Communication Studies Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland Jared Sexton, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Film & Media Studies University of California, Irvine Dr. Jared Sexton joined…

  • Anti-Essentialism and Intersectionality: Tools to Dismantle the Master’s House

    I want to begin my talk with a quote from the late poet Audre Lorde: “The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” was asked to speak today about anti-essentialism and intersectionality. I am glad to do so, for I believe both concepts are indispensable tools for dismantling the master’s house.

  • Despite ‘Enormous Strides,’ Minorities Still Face Barriers, President Says

    Despite ‘Enormous Strides,’ Minorities Still Face Barriers, President Says The New York Times 2013-08-23 John Hurdle and Peter Baker SCRANTON, Pa. — President Obama declared on Friday that the United States had made “enormous strides” in race relations since the March on Washington 50 years ago, but said “institutional barriers” for African-Americans and other minorities…

  • Race on the Menu: Cheerios, Paula Deen, with Some Supreme Court for Dessert

    Race on the Menu: Cheerios, Paula Deen, with Some Supreme Court for Dessert brianbantum: theology, culture, teaching and life in-between 2012-06-26 Brian Bantum, Assistant Professor of Theology Seattle Pacific University It’s been a bad month. For some reason incidents and issues of race seems to appear like death, in groups of three. They clump together,…