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  • The Philosophy of Race

    The Philosophy of Race Routledge 2011-12-14 1,584 pages Hardback: 978-0-415-49602-5 Edited by: Paul Taylor, Associate Professor of Philosophy; African American Studies Pennsylvania State University Since at least the early 1990s, philosophical race theory has emerged as a dynamic and fertile area of serious scholarly inquiry, and this new four-volume Major Work from Routledge meets the…

  • Sneak peek at next ‘Black in America’

    Sneak peek at next ‘Black in America’ Cable News Network 2012-11-27 What makes someone black in America? Skin color? History? Culture? Soledad O’Brien reports on Sunday, December 9 at 8pm ET/PT.

  • Bringing together our collective stories

    Bringing together our collective stories The African Courier: The International Magazine Published in Germany October/November 2012 Gyavira Lasana The second annual convention of the Black German Cultural Society of New Jersey took place at Barnard College in New York City recently. Our New York-based contributing editor Gyavira Lasana reports on the convention, which focused on…

  • ES 3434: Mixed Race Identities

    ES 3434: Mixed Race Identities California State University, East Bay 2012-2013 Examination of mixed race peoples—their legal and social status, U.S. Census designations, and identities from the one-drop rule to President Obama and beyond. The social science complement to ES 3430, Interracial Sex and Marriage.

  • Boa Aparência (Good Appearance): How Colorism Plays Out in Latin America

    Boa Aparência (Good Appearance): How Colorism Plays Out in Latin America 50shadesofblack.com | Fueling Conversation 2012-10-08 Dash Harris In.a.Dash.Media “Go to the banks and you’ll see how racist, this country is.” This was a sentiment expressed ad nauseam in my interviews about how colorism drives societal treatment. Interviewees in every country I visited for the…

  • Hue & Phenotype: Colorism… Even More Complex

    Hue & Phenotype: Colorism… Even More Complex 50shadesofblack.com | Fueling Conversation 2012-09-21 Dash Harris In.a.Dash.Media I have interviewed over 100 people for this docu-series and recently I’ve come across more and more interviewees who ask me about my background. I’ve had a handful of Caribbeans ask me if I were ‘dougla,’ a person of Indian…

  • Dr. Marcia Dawkins Discusses Her Book, Clearly Invisible

    Dr. Marcia Dawkins Discusses Her Book, Clearly Invisible Mixed Race Radio 2012-09-21, 17:00Z (12:00 EST, 09:00 PST) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host Marcia Dawkins, Clinical Assistant Professor of Communications University of Southern California, Annenberg Marcia is an award-winning writer, speaker, educator and visiting scholar at Brown University. She is the author of Clearly Invisible: Racial Passing…

  • Who is Black in America? A Soledad O’Brien Report

    Who is Black in America? A Soledad O’Brien Report Cable News Network 2012-12-09, 20:00 EST Soledad O’Brien, Host Black in America is a documentary series reported by CNN’s Soledad O’Brien. In its fifth year, CNN’s Black in America takes a look at “Who is Black in America?” Soledad O’Brien follows two 17-year-olds, Becca Khalil and…

  • Left of Black S3:E10 | Who is Black in Multiracial America?

    American racial history was long framed by the notion of the “one drop” rule, which within a political economy of race and difference, was a blatant attempt to embolden Whiteness and the privilege that derived from it.  Scholar Yaba Blay offers a different view of the “one drop” rule with her multi-media project (1)ne Drop…

  • The New Colored People: The Mixed Race Movement in America (Book Review)

    The New Colored People: The Mixed Race Movement in America (Book Review) Mixed American Life 2012-11-15 Charles T. Franklin The New Colored People: The Mixed Race Movement in America by Jon Michael Spencer (1997) makes the argument that the US multi-cultural movement, like other movements in the past, is something that we need to pay…