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  • CNN Contributing Producer Probes Lingering Pain of the ‘One Drop’ Rule

    CNN Contributing Producer Probes Lingering Pain of the ‘One Drop’ Rule ColorLines: News for Action 2012-12-07 Akiba Solomon, Columnist, Gender Matters New York, New York Keep the concept of privilege-clinging in the back of your mind as you check out the work and words of Dr. Yaba Blay, the driving force behind “Who Is Black…

  • Did one-drop rules have a positive side?

    Did one-drop rules have a positive side? Cable News Network (CNN) Black in America: A Soledad O’Brien Report 2012-12-05 Soledad O’Brien, Host   Ethnographer and professor Dr. Yaba Blay explains why she thinks the one-drop rule has a positive side. [Transcription by Steven F. Riley] Soledad O’Brien: Why do so many black people—me included—embrace the “one-drop…

  • “Family Portrait in Black and White” Arrives on DVD

    “Family Portrait in Black and White” Arrives on DVD Interfilm Productions 2012-11-29 Julia Ivanova, Director Family Portrait in Black and White – Award Winning Documentary on Super-Foster Mom and her 16 Bi-racial Children Arrives on DVD December 4, 2012 On the heels of National Adoption Month comes a documentary that explores the growing pains of…

  • Race, Skin Color, and Economic Outcomes in Early Twentieth-Century America

    Race, Skin Color, and Economic Outcomes in Early Twentieth-Century America Stanford University Job Market Paper 2012-11-28 53 pages Roy Mill Department of Economics Stanford University Luke C.D. Stein Department of Economics Stanford University We study the effect of race on economic outcomes using unique data from the first half of the twentieth century, a period…

  • MixedRaceStudies.org Reaches 5,000 Posts

    MixedRaceStudies.org Reaches 5,000 Posts MixedRaceStudies.org 2012-11-11 Steven F. Riley MixedRaceStudies.org, called by a preeminent scholar, “the most comprehensive and objective clearinghouse for scholarly publications related to critical mixed-race theory,” and the recipient of other praise has reached its 5,000th post! Created in May 2009 by Steven F. Riley, this free online resource consists of links…

  • No longer your father’s electorate

    No longer your father’s electorate Los Angeles Times 2012-11-08 Paul West, Washington Bureau Obama’s reelection marks a turning point in American politics: With the growing power of minorities, women and gays, it’s the end of the world as straight white males know it. WASHINGTON — Even more than the election that made Barack Obama the…

  • Barack Obama: Let’s not forget that he’s America’s first bi-racial president

    Barack Obama: Let’s not forget that he’s America’s first bi-racial president The Washington Post 2012-11-08 Clinton Yates If I’m lucky enough to have children, I won’t tell them that Barack Obama was America’s first black president. As a black man who plans to eventually start a family with my white girlfriend, I’m going to tell…

  • 1st Black President Wins a 2nd Term

    1st Black President Wins a 2nd Term The Root 2012-11-07 Keli Goff, Political Correspondent Here’s who gave it to President Obama, and what he might do with it. (The Root) — Four years after making history by becoming the first black president elected in the United States, Barack Obama has been elected to a second…

  • Barack Obama Reelection Signals Rise Of New America

    Barack Obama Reelection Signals Rise Of New America The Huffington Post 2012-11-07 Howard Fineman NEW YORK—President Barack Obama did not just win reelection tonight. His victory signaled the irreversible triumph of a new, 21st-century America: multiracial, multi-ethnic, global in outlook and moving beyond centuries of racial, sexual, marital and religious tradition. Obama, the mixed-race son…

  • Rejuvenated Obama reelected as president after bruising campaign

    Rejuvenated Obama reelected as president after bruising campaign The Washington Post 2011-11-07 David A. Fahrenthold Barack Obama was elected to a second presidential term Tuesday, defeating Republican Mitt Romney by reassembling the political coalition that boosted him to victory four years ago and remaking himself from a hopeful uniter into a determined fighter for middle-class…