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  • Whither White America?

    Whither White America? The American Prospect 2013-06-13 Jamelle Bouie More thoughts on the future of white people. “Majority-minority” is an unusual term—by definition, minorities are no longer such if they’re in the majority—but it’s a convenient shorthand for what most people expect to happen in the United States over the next few decades. A growing…

  • Not Quite White: Arabs, Slavs, and the Contours of Contested Whiteness

    Not Quite White: Arabs, Slavs, and the Contours of Contested Whiteness Typecast Releasing 2012 USA English 24 minutes Jamil Khoury, Director and Writer Stephen Combs, Director Inspired by Jamil Khoury’s short play WASP: White Arab Slovak Pole, Not Quite White: Arabs, Slavs, and the Contours of Contested Whiteness is a thought-provoking documentary that explores the…

  • Dr. J .T. Mills: Helping Students Explore Concepts of Race

    Dr. J .T. Mills: Helping Students Explore Concepts of Race Mixed Race Radio Blog Talk Radio 2013-06-19, 16:00Z (12:00 EDT) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host John T. Mills, Assistant Director of Multicultural Affairs Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersery Legitimate knowledge regarding the construction of race in America is absent in today’s youth and college aged students.…

  • One Drop of Love

    One Drop of Love Hollywood Fringe Festival L.A.’s Largest Celebration of the Performing Arts 2013-06-13 through 2013-06-30 Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, Playwright, Producer, Actress, Educator Jillian Pagan, Director Produced by: Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Chay Carter Performances: Friday 2013-06-21, 14:30 PDT (Local Time) Lounge Theatre 6201 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles, California Friday 2013-06-28, 16:15…

  • Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White

    Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White Basic Books 2002 416 pages 5.3 x 1.1 x 8 inches Paperback ISBN: 9780465006403; ISBN-10: 046500640X Frank H. Wu, Chancellor & Dean University of California, Hastings College of Law Writing in the tradition of W. E. B. Du Bois, Cornel West, and others who confronted the “color…

  • 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?…

  • Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of South Africa, the United States, and Brazil

    Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of South Africa, the United States, and Brazil Cambridge University Press December 1997 412 pages 228 x 152 mm Paperback ISBN: 9780521585903 Hardback ISBN: 9780521584555 Anthony W. Marx, President and CEO New York Public Library In this bold, original and persuasive book, Anthony W. Marx provocatively links the construction…

  • In Buenos Aires, Researchers Exhume Long-Unclaimed African Roots

    In Buenos Aires, Researchers Exhume Long-Unclaimed African Roots The Washington Post 2005-05-05 Monte Reel BUENOS AIRES — Their disappearance is one of Argentina’s most enduring mysteries. In 1810, black residents accounted for about 30 percent of the population of Buenos Aires. By 1887, however, their numbers had plummeted to 1.8 percent. So where did they…

  • Blackout: How Argentina ‘Eliminated’ Africans From Its History And Conscience

    Blackout: How Argentina ‘Eliminated’ Africans From Its History And Conscience International Business Times New York, New York 2013-06-04 Palash Ghosh, Senior Writer, World Tens of millions of black Africans were forcibly removed from their homelands from the 16th century to the 19th century to toil on the plantations and farms of the New World. This…

  • The Cuban Remix: Rethinking Culture and Political Participation in Contemporary Cuba

    The Cuban Remix: Rethinking Culture and Political Participation in Contemporary Cuba University of Michigan 2008 555 pages Tanya L. Saunders A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Sociology) This dissertation examines the post-1959 activism of Cuba’s socially critical artists and intellectuals, and the effects of the…