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  • Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America

    Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America University of North Carolina Press October 2014 320 pages 59 figs., 4 maps, 23 tables, notes, bibl., index 6.125 x 9.25 Paper ISBN: 978-1-4696-1783-1 Edward E. Telles, Professor of Sociology Princeton University and The Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America (PERLA) Princeton University Pigmentocracies—the fruit…

  • One Drop of Love at the Straz Center

    One Drop of Love at the Straz Center Straz Center for the Performing Arts Jaeb Theater 1010 N. W.C. MacInnes Place Tampa, Florida 33602 Saturday, 2014-11-08, 19:30 EST (Local Time) Produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, this extraordinary one-woman show by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni incorporates filmed images, photographs and animation to tell the story…

  • ‘One Drop of Love’ star Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni talks race, family and more

    “People believe in race so strongly they’re faithful to it. Race is like a religion to us,” said Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, writer and performer of One Drop of Love, a one-woman multimedia show coming to the Straz Center for the Performing Arts Saturday night.

  • What ‘White Privilege’ Really Means

    This is the first in a series of interviews with philosophers on race that I am conducting for The Stone. This week’s conversation is with Naomi Zack, a professor of philosophy at the University of Oregon and the author of “The Ethics and Mores of Race: Equality After the History of Philosophy.” The interview was…

  • My Children and the Limits of White Privilege

    My Children and the Limits of White Privilege Nursing Clio: Because the Personal is Historical 2013-08-28 Danielle J. Swiontek, Assistant Professor of History Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, California Nursing Clio is honored to have Danielle J. Swiontek as our guest author today. Danielle is an Assistant Professor of History at Santa Barbara City…

  • A Letter and the Legacy of “Not White” in the USA

    A Letter and the Legacy of “Not White” in the USA Nursing Clio: Because the Personal is Historical 2014-11-04 Adam Turner, Co-founder and Technical Editor With the events of the past months, and as Austin McCoy discussed here on Nursing Clio last week, it should be clear that white privilege is still alive and well…

  • Seahawks’ Russell Wilson Controversy Shows Dangers of Racial Authenticity Tests

    Seahawks’ Russell Wilson Controversy Shows Dangers of Racial Authenticity Tests The American Prospect 2014-11-01 Kevin Cokley, Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology; Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies University of Texas, Austin The ‘are you black enough?’ question is perilously close to the racist one-drop rule of yore—whether called by blacks or whites. Whether…

  • I have no doubt what colour I am

    I have no doubt what colour I am The Observer London, United Kingdom 2009-01-17 Matthew Ryder, Barrister (QC) London, United Kingdom Let’s get beyond the debate over whether ‘mixed-race’ is synonymous with ‘black’. It is The question of whether someone who is mixed-race is, in fact, “black” has been the subject of much discussion since…

  • Shows: One Drop of Love

    Shows: One Drop of Love Mesa Arts Center Nesbitt/Elliott Playhouse One East Main Street Mesa, Arizona 85201 Box Office: (480) 644.6500 Performing Live Series Saturday, 2014-11-01, 15:00 & 19:30 MT (Local Time) Produced by Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and the show’s writer/performer Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, One Drop of Love is a multimedia one woman show. It…

  • Race Medicine: Treating Health Inequities from Slavery to Genomics

    Race Medicine: Treating Health Inequities from Slavery to Genomics University of New England Alfond Center for Health Sciences Room 205 Biddeford, Maine 2014-11-03, 17:30 EST (Local Time) Contact: David Livingstone Smith Phone: (207) 602-2237 Annual David Hume Lecture on Human Nature Dorothy Roberts, J.D., will trace the U.S. history of race medicine—the practice of treating…