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  • Berlin Film Festival: Critics hail new Bob Marley documentary

    Berlin Film Festival: Critics hail new Bob Marley documentary The Telegraph 2012-02-16 Critics at the Berlin Film Festival have been unanimous in their praise of Kevin Macdonald’s new documentary ‘Marley’, which some have called the definitive biography of the reggae singer. Oscar-winning documentary maker Kevin Macdonald has made what critics are calling the definitive biography…

  • The Race of a More Perfect Union: James Baldwin, Segregated Memory and the Presidential Race

    The Race of a More Perfect Union: James Baldwin, Segregated Memory and the Presidential Race Theory & Event Volume 15, Issue 1 (March 2012) DOI: 10.1353/tae.2012.0010 P.J. Brendese, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science Haverford College The 2008 U.S. presidential race dramatized the connection between America’s segregated memory and its segregated polity. This essay makes…

  • Black people ‘least satisfied of UK population’

    Black people ‘least satisfied of UK population’ BBC News 2012-02-28 Black and mixed-ethnic Britons are less satisfied with their lives on average than the UK population as a whole, a survey suggests. Some 80,000 people across the UK, polled by the Office for National Statistics, produced an average life satisfaction rating of 7.4 out of…

  • Who is George Zimmerman?

    Who is George Zimmerman? The Washington Post 2012-03-23 Manuel Roig-Franzia Tom Jackman Darryl Fears The shooter was once a Catholic altar boy — with a surname that could have been Jewish. His father is white, neighbors say. His mother is Latina. And his family is eager to point out that some of his relatives are…

  • 2010 Census Shows Asians are Fastest-Growing Race Group

    2010 Census Shows Asians are Fastest-Growing Race Group United States Census Bureau 2012-03-21 The U.S. Census Bureau today released a 2010 Census brief, The Asian Population: 2010 [PDF], that shows the Asian population grew faster than any other race group over the last decade. The population that identified as Asian, either alone or in combination…

  • For A Century, The First Underground Railroad Ran Slaves South To Florida (PHOTOS)

    For A Century, The First Underground Railroad Ran Slaves South To Florida (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post 2012-03-18 Bruce Smith, Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. — While most Americans are familiar with the Underground Railroad that helped Southern slaves escape north before the Civil War, the first clandestine path to freedom ran for more than a century…

  • The Republican primaries: Miscegenation and the South

    The Republican primaries: Miscegenation and the South The Economist 2012-03-13 OVER the weekend the Democratic-affiliated polling organisation Public Policy Polling (PPP) came out with a survey showing that 21% of likely Republican voters in Alabama, and 29% of likely Republican voters in Mississippi, think interracial marriage should be illegal. (It also found about half think…

  • Studs Terkel’s study of race in the US: 20 years on

    Studs Terkel’s study of race in the US: 20 years on The Guardian 2012-03-13 Gary Younge What have we learned in the two decades since the oral historian Studs Terkel published his classic book Race? In the introduction to a new edition, Gary Younge weighs up what has changed – and what hasn’t Cultures do…

  • [Daniel Fiedler] Segregating children is wrong

    [Daniel Fiedler] Segregating children is wrong The Korea Herald 2012-03-13 Daniel Fiedler, Professor of Law Wonkwang University This year under the guidance of the Seoul Office of Education a new elementary school and a new high school were opened in the Seoul area. While generally the opening of new schools would not be cause for…

  • Survey reveals half of children of migrants families feel ‘white British’

    Survey reveals half of children of migrants families feel ‘white British’ Daily Mail 2012-03-08 Steve Doughty More than half the children of immigrant families now count themselves as both white and British, a survey revealed yesterday. The findings show that more than one in six of those people who call themselves white British were in…