Mixed Race Studies

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  • Southern Race Question

    How the Negro Is Taking Advantage of the Opportunities for Advancement—Some Singular Ideas as to the Future Outcome of Present Developments — Another Talker Suggests a Colored State.

  • Whites think race equality is nearer than blacks do, study finds

    Whites think race equality is nearer than blacks do, study finds The Los Angeles Times 2013-08-22 Emily Alpert Nearly half a century after Martin Luther King Jr. described his dream that someday people would be judged not by their race but by their character, whites think a colorblind society is much closer to reality than…

  • Who is an Indian?: Race, Place, and the Politics of Indigeneity in the Americas

    Who is an Indian?: Race, Place, and the Politics of Indigeneity in the Americas University of Toronto Press August 2013 272 pages Paper ISBN: 9780802095527 Cloth ISBN: 9780802098184 Edited by: Maximilian C. Forte, Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Who is an Indian? This is possibly the oldest question facing…

  • Fix the Census’ Archaic Racial Categories

    Fix the Census’ Archaic Racial Categories The New York Times 2013-08-21 Kenneth Prewitt, Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs Columbia University Also former director of the U.S. Census Bureau from 1998 to 2001 and author of What Is Your Race? The Census and Our Flawed Efforts to Classify Americans (Princeton University Press, 2013) Starting in 1790, and…

  • Scholar Saw a Multicolored American Culture

    Scholar Saw a Multicolored American Culture The New York Times 2013-08-19 Mel Watkins Albert Murray Dies at 97; Fought Black Separatism Albert Murray, an essayist, critic and novelist who influenced the national discussion about race by challenging black separatism, insisting that the black experience was essential to American culture and inextricably tied to it, died…

  • There Is No Scientific Rationale for Race-Based Research

    There Is No Scientific Rationale for Race-Based Research Journal of the National Medical Association Volume 99, Number 6 (June 2007) pages 690-692 Eddie L. Hoover, Professor of Surgery State University of New York, Buffalo For centuries, the colonial governments used a combination of race and ethnic characteristics to subjugate and control people of color, and…

  • Obama rodeo clown incident illustrates nation’s continued racial divide

    Obama rodeo clown incident illustrates nation’s continued racial divide The Washington Post 2013-08-15 Philip Rucker SEDALIA, Mo. — As some people at the Missouri State Fair see it, the rodeo incident last weekend in which a ringleader taunted a clown wearing a mask of President Obama and played with his lips as a bull charged…

  • A big fish or a small pond? Framing effects in percentages

    A big fish or a small pond? Framing effects in percentages Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Volume 122, Issue 2, November 2013 pages 190–199 DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2013.07.003 Meng Li, Assistant Professor Department of Health and Behavioral Sciences University of Colorado Denver Gretchen B. Chapman, Professor of Psychology Rutgers University This paper presents three studies that…

  • De Blasio Takes His Modern Family on the Campaign Trail

    De Blasio Takes His Modern Family on the Campaign Trail The New York Times 2013-08-07 Michael Barbaro As his S.U.V. sped down the West Side Highway a few days ago, 30 minutes late to a campaign stop, Bill de Blasio, a Democratic mayoral candidate, proposed a simple solution: let his wife do the talking instead…

  • Our Zip Code May Be More Important Than Our Genetic Code: Social Determinants of Health, Law and Policy

    Our Zip Code May Be More Important Than Our Genetic Code: Social Determinants of Health, Law and Policy Social Determinants of Health Rhode Island Medical Journal Volume 96, Number 7 (July 2013) Dannie Ritchie, MD, MPH, Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine Lead, Transcultural Community Health Initiative Brown University Center for Primary Care and Prevention…