Category: Media Archive

  • Books of The Times: One Nation, Still Divisible by Race The New York Times 2011-08-11 Dwight Garner Randall Kennedy, The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency, New York: Pantheon Books, 2011. 322 pp. August is not half over, and already it’s been a punishing month for Barack Obama: the debt…

  • The multiple dimensions of racial mixture in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: from whitening to Brazilian negritude Ethnic and Racial Studies Available online: 2011-08-01 18 pages DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2011.589524 Graziella Moraes D. Silva Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Elisa P. Reis, Professor of Political Sociology Federal University of Rio de Janeiro The notion that racial mixture…

  • For black Britons, this is not the 80s revisited. It’s worse The Guardian 2011-08-11 Joseph Harker, Assistant Comment Editor Our MPs are ‘on message’, our media in decline and the Commission for Racial Equality abolished. Who speaks for us? This is not 1981. Nor 1985. As has been pointed out over the past few days,…

  • Ambiguities of Race: Science on the Reproductive Frontier of Australia and the Pacific Between the Wars Australian Historical Studies Volume 40, Issue 2, 2009 pages 143-160 DOI: 10.1080/10314610902849302 Warwick Anderson, Professor of History University of Sydney The attitudes of Australian biologists, anthropologists, and historians toward race mixing in the early-twentieth century should be viewed in…

  • Children of Colonialism: Anglo-Indians in a Postcolonial World Berg Publishers (an imprint of Macmillan) October 2001 272 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-85973-531-2, ISBN10: 1-85973-531-2 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-85973-632-6, ISBN10: 1-85973-632-7 Lionel Caplan, Emeritus Professor and Professorial Research Associate School of Oriental and African Studies University of London Among the legacies of…

  • The pernicious propaganda relating to the Nordic doctrine before, during, and since the war is the excuse for this book. From the closing years of the last century to the outbreak of the Great War there was in Germany a rising tide of adulation of the blond dolichocephal as the embodiment of all that was…

  • Skin Colour: Does it Matter in New Zealand? Policy Quarterly (Institute of Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington) Volume 4, Number 1 (2008) pages 18-25 Paul Callister, Senior Research Fellow Institute of Policy Studies Victoria University of Wellington Introduction Pick up any official New Zealand publication which includes photographs representing the population and it is…

  • Prayer, and Bug Juice, at a Summer Camp for Jews of Color The New York Times 2011-08-12 Samuel G. Freedman, Professor of Journalism Columbia University PETALUMA, Calif. — On Sabbath morning, as fog still hung over the valley, the campers walked past the Torrey pines and blackberry bushes toward the garden. There, several rows of…

  • Preview Of Essential Guide To Working With Mixed-Race Young People Manchester Metropolitan University Tuesday, 2011-10-04, 10:00-12:30 BST (Local Time) Thursday, 2011-10-06, 10:00-12:30 BST (Local Time) ‘Political Correctness’ has gone wrong. Let us help you talk about the subject in a practical and productive way. Come along to our next training session!! Who we are: Mix-d:…

  • Visually white, legally black: Miscegenation, the mulatto, and passing in American literature and culture, 1865–1933 Illinois State University 2004 193 pages Publication Number: AAT 3128271 Karen A. Chachere Many historians and literary scholars characterize the period between 1865-1933 as America’s preoccupation with the “Negro Question.” Admittedly, America was intrigued by the idea of the former…