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  • Racial divisions still require full attention

    Racial divisions still require full attention The Daily News Journal Murfreesboro, Tennessee 2014-12-01 Editorial Board Harpers Ferry…Montgomery…Little Rock…Birmingham…Selma…Ferguson… Despite some optimism that the United States had evolved into a “post-racial” era, particularly with the election of a black president, events in Ferguson, Missouri, continue to reinforce the reality of a racial divide in this country.…

  • How can you identify as Irish on the census if you are not white?

    How can you identify as Irish on the census if you are not white? Manchester Policy Blogs: Ethnicity Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity University of Manchester, United Kingdom 2014-11-27 Lindsey Garratt, Research Associate The census allows people to identify as Irish only if they are also white. What about the growing number of ethnic minority…

  • We Need to Talk about Race

    We Need to Talk about Race Sociology Volume 48, Number 6 (December 2014) pages 1107-1122 DOI: 10.1177/0038038514521714 Bethan Harries, Research Associate Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity University of Manchester, United Kingdom It is not easy to name racism in a context in which race is almost entirely denied. Despite a recent focus on the ‘silencing’…

  • A Look at Looking Different

    A Look at Looking Different The New York Times 2014-12-02 Felicia R. Lee ‘Crossing Borders,’ at the Brooklyn Historical Society Alexander David grew up with a Chinese mother and a white Jewish father in the liberal Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn. He attended the predominantly Asian elite Stuyvesant High School. He was comfortable in his…

  • The Major Demographic Shift That’s Upending How We Think About Race

    The Major Demographic Shift That’s Upending How We Think About Race The New Republic 2014-11-28 William H. Frey, Senior Fellow Metropolitan Policy Program Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. Reprinted with permission from Diversity Explosion: How New Racial Demographics are Remaking America by William H. Frey (Brookings Press, 2014). The usual way that race labels are applied…

  • What white people need to know, and do, after Ferguson

    What white people need to know, and do, after Ferguson The Washington Post 2014-11-28 Sally Kohn Benefiting from white privilege is automatic. Defending white privilege is a choice. In the days before the grand jury’s decision in Ferguson, when Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon decided to impose a pre-emptive state of emergency, a white relative posted…

  • The Census Is Still Trying To Find The Best Way To Track Race In America

    The Census Is Still Trying To Find The Best Way To Track Race In America FiveThirtyEight New York, New York 2014-11-26 Ben Casselman, Chief Economics Writer At FiveThirtyEight, we use census data all the time to track demographic and social trends, from the aging of the U.S. population to the decline in marriage and shifts…

  • In Northern Ireland, a Wave of Immigrants Is Met With Fists

    In Northern Ireland, a Wave of Immigrants Is Met With Fists The New York Times 2014-11-28 Douglas Dalby BELFAST, Northern Ireland — More than 16 years after the Good Friday peace deal brought real hope that Protestants and Roman Catholics could live together in relative harmony, Northern Ireland is being racked by another wave of…

  • Michael Brown and the deadly effects of colorism

    Michael Brown and the deadly effects of colorism Newsworks: WHYY News The Philadelphia Experiment Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2014-10-30 Solomon Jones The outcry triggered by the killings of unarmed men by police officers — from Michael Brown’s shooting death in Ferguson, Mo., to the choking death of Eric Garner in Staten Island, NY — has largely focused…

  • 11-2 Insight Dr. Yaba Blay Author of One Drop – Shifting the Lens on Race

    11-2 Insight Dr. Yaba Blay Author of One Drop – Shifting the Lens on Race Power 99FM, WUSL-FM Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2014-10-30 Loraine Ballard Morill, Host Yaba Blay, Assistant Teaching Professor of Africana Studies Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Dr. Yaba Blay author of (1)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race talks about the changing definition of race…