Category: New Media

  • Hannah Gómez 2012-08-29 I am an MA and MS candidate at Simmons College in Boston preparing to present a paper on the formation and assertion of biracial identity in Young Adult literature. While I’ve amassed quite the list of novels, I’m sure I am missing some from smaller presses and urban and hi/lo imprints from…

  • Census to Change Categories on Race The Associated Press 2012-08-09 The Census Bureau wants to make broad changes to its surveys to keep pace with changing notions of race. The changes would drop use of the term “Negro,” leaving a choice of “black” or “African-American.” It would count Hispanics as separate from blacks and whites.…

  • Brazil Approves University Affirmative Action Bill Associated Press 2012-08-08 Stan Lehman San Paulo—The Brazilian Senate has approved an affirmative action bill that reserves half the spots in federal universities for high school graduates of public schools, and distributes them according to the racial makeup of each state. The Senate’s news agency says the bill that…

  • Ancestry.com Discovers President Obama Related to First Documented Slave in America Ancestry.com Provo, Utah 2012-07-30 Research Connects First African-American President to First African Slave in the American Colonies PROVO, UTAH – July 30, 2012 – A research team from Ancestry.com (NASDAQ:ACOM), the world’s largest online family history resource, has concluded that President Barack Obama is…

  • Obama Has Ties to Slavery Not by His Father but His Mother, Research Suggests The New York Times 2012-07-30 Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON — President Obama’s biography — son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas — has long suggested that unlike most African-Americans, his roots did not…

  • Destiny’s Child: Obama and Election ’08 boundary 2: an international journal of literature and culture Volume 39, Number 2 (Summer 2012) pages 3-32 DOI: 10.1215/01903659-1597871 Hortense Spillers, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English Vanderbilt University “Destiny’s Child: Obama and Election ’08” interrogates the election of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States as…

  • Morgan Freeman: No Black President For U.S. Yet Tell Me More National Public Radio 2012-07-06 Michel Martin, Host Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman joined Tell Me More host Michel Martin to discuss his new movie, The Magic of Belle Isle. But the prolific actor, famous for his roles in films such as The Shawshank Redemption, Million…

  • Ecco To Publish Pulitzer Prize Winning U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey’s Memoir HarperCollins Publishers 2012-06-28 Michael McKenzie New York, NY (June 28, 2012) – Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, is thrilled to announce that it has won the rights to publish Pulitzer Prize winning United States Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey’s untitled memoir in a…

  • Follow MixedRaceStudies.org on Twitter MixedRaceStudies.org 2012-07-04 Steven F. Riley Thanks to a suggestion by University of Wisconsin History Professor Gregory Carter, all new posts on MixedRaceStudies.org will be simultaneously “tweeted” on Twitter at @mixed_race.

  • Freedom Road Spotlights St. Augustine History VisitFlorida.com 2012-06-29 Amy Wimmer Schwarb Derek Hankerson wanted to help educate people not only about Spanish Florida, but about the diverse groups who contributed to the country’s founding. A St. Augustine company is trying to reshape the American story – not to rewrite history, but to retell it. Derek…