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  • Brazilians of African descent demand equality

    Brazilians of African descent demand equality Al Jazeera English 2013-07-02 Rachel Levin “Brazil is one of the most socially unequal countries in the world, we’re selling the image that everything is good and we’ll host the World Cup but it’s a country that denies opportunity to its own people.” —Lais Nascimento, student Eighty percent of…

  • Let’s face it: We need a new way to talk about race

    Let’s face it: We need a new way to talk about race U.S. Catholic July 2013 Anthony Walton Our conversation about race in America is still stuck in black and white. In order to move forward, we all need to learn a new vocabulary. By any measure, we are living in the best period of…

  • Racial Discrimination in Medicine versus Race-Based Medicine: The Ethical, Legal and Policy Implications on Health Disparities

    Racial Discrimination in Medicine versus Race-Based Medicine: The Ethical, Legal and Policy Implications on Health Disparities Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives Volume 3, Issue 1 (Spring 2011) pages 59-86 Christopher Ogolla, LL.M., J.D., M.A., M.P.H., B.A., Academic Support Instructor Thurgood Marshall School of Law Texas Southern University This paper explores the…

  • The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach About Being Different

    The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach About Being Different James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy Rice University 2011-09-15, 18:00-19:30 CDT Jenifer L. Bratter, Host & Associate Professor of Sociology Rice University New York University sociology professor Ann Morning, Ph.D., analyzes how scientists influence ideas about race through teachings and textbooks.…

  • Professor Dorothy Roberts — Challenging Concepts of Race

    Professor Dorothy Roberts — Challenging Concepts of Race Mixed Race Radio Blog Talk Radio 2013-06-26, 16:00Z (12:00 EDT) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host Dorothy E. Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology; Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights University of Pennsylvania Dorothy Roberts is the fourteenth Penn Integrates…

  • Facing up to the Failure of “Racial Democracy” in Brazil

    Facing up to the Failure of “Racial Democracy” in Brazil Planète Afrique: Articles on Africa and the African Diaspora Written by Hishaam Aidi for Various Magazines First published: 2001-11-28 Hishaam Aidi, Lecturer in Discipline of International and Public Affairs Columbia University What do the Brazilians who call themselves “prieto,” “pardo” and “mestico” have in common?…

  • Santita Jackson Show (WVON AM, Chicago) with Rainier Spencer

    Santita Jackson Show (WVON AM, Chicago) with Rainier Spencer The Santita Jackson Show WVON 1690 AM Chicago, Illinois 2011-02-16, 15:05Z (09:05 CST, 10:05 EST, 07:05 PST) Santita Jackson, Host Rainier Spencer, Director and Professor of Afro-American Studies; Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies University of Nevada, Las Vegas The topic of discussion will be the so-called “one-drop…

  • How the ‘Loving’ Case Changed the US

    How the ‘Loving’ Case Changed the US The Root 2013-06-12 Kelli Goff, Special Correspondent The legacy of the interracial-marriage case looms large on the 46th anniversary of the landmark decision. Forty-six years ago, on June 12, 1967, the Supreme Court ruled that a Virginia law prohibiting Mildred Jeter Loving, who was black, and Richard Loving,…

  • Photo of the Week: An Interracial Family in 1962

    Photo of the Week: An Interracial Family in 1962 The Brooklyn Historical Society Blog The Brooklyn Historical Society 2013-06-05 Sady Sullivan, Director of Oral History The Bibuld Family, ca. 1962, V1989.22.14; Bob Adelman photographs of Brooklyn Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) demonstrations collection, V1989.002; Brooklyn Historical Society. This photograph from the Brooklyn Congress of Racial…

  • White or Black? Conservatives, Liberals See Faces Differently

    White or Black? Conservatives, Liberals See Faces Differently Pacific Standard Santa Barbara, California 2013-06-05 Tom Jacobs, Staff Writer New research finds people on the political right are quicker to classify a racially ambiguous face as black. Did you notice that mixed-race gentleman who passed you on the sidewalk yesterday? During the split second as he…