Category: Media Archive

  • Professor: Racial categorization remains necessary in Census Medill Washington Medill News Service Medill School, Northwestern University 2011-08-08 Angie Chung WASHINGTON—Does where we come from tell us whom we are? Why do we come in different colors? Does skin color equal race?   Talking about racial issues can be a never-ending discussion. It’s complicated. The Census…

  • Emerging Voices in Academia: Critical Mixed Race Theory Little Theater, Building 1200 Nappa Vally College Napa, California 2011-09-22, 16:00 PDT (Local Time) Andrew Jolivétte, Associate Professor of American Indian Studies (Also see biographies at Speak Out! and Native Wiki.) Center for Health Disparities Research and Training San Fransisco State University Dr. Andrew Jolivétte is an…

  • Mixed Race Britain – Mixed Britannia BBC Press Office: Press Packs 2011-09-05 In this three-part series George Alagiah explores the remarkable and untold story of Britain’s mixed-race community and examines through the decades how mixed race has become one of the country’s fastest growing ethnic groups. Most of all, the films tell a tale of…

  • Mixed Race Britain – Introduction BBC Press Office: Press Packs 2011-09-05 Mixed Race Britain is put under the spotlight this September on BBC Two in a collection of revealing and compelling new programmes. Britain in 2011 has proportionately the largest mixed population in the Western world, but a hundred years ago people of mixed race…

  • A Snug Little Flock: The Social Origins of the Riel Resistance, 1869-70 Watson & Dwyer Publishing, Winnipeg, Manitoba 1991 290 pages ISBN: 0-920486-48-7 Frits Pannekoek, President Athabasca University, Athabasca, Alberta, Canada Questions about the identities of the mixed-blood Indian-European peoples of Canada and the United States have puzzled historians and anthropologists in both countries. Who…

  • Are you white enough? Salon.com 2008-11-10 Laura Miller, Senior Writer From Jim Crow laws to workplace discrimination, the history of race and the American courtroom is incendiary. Come January, Barack Obama will be sworn in as either the first black president of the United States or the 44th white one, or both, or neither, depending…

  • Historical Fantasy, Speculative Realism, and Postrace Aesthetics in Contemporary American Fiction American Literary History Volume 23, Number 3 (Fall 2011) pages 574-599 E-ISSN: 1468-4365 Print ISSN: 0896-7148 Ramón Saldívar, Professor of History Stanford University Since the turn of the century, a new generation of minority writers has come to prominence whose work signals a radical…

  • Between Two Worlds: Consequences of Dual-Group Membership among Children University of Texas, Austin May 2008 98 pages Katherine Vera Aumer-Ryan Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of The University of Texas at Austin in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Increasing numbers of individuals are simultaneously…

  • Deconstructing Jaco: Genetic Heritage of an Afrikaner Annals of Human Genetics Volume 71, Issue 5 (September 2007) pages 674–688 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1809.2007.00363.x J. M. Greeff, Professor of Genetics University of Pretoria It is often assumed that Afrikaners stem from a small number of Dutch immigrants. As a result they should be genetically homogeneous, show founder effects…

  • Last week, the Alabama Senate voted to repeal the state’s constitutional prohibition against interracial marriage, 32 years after the Supreme Court struck down Virginia’s similar ban. Hadn’t these archaic laws gone out with Bull Connor? I asked myself as I read the news account. And haven’t we been hearing that America has rediscovered the melting…