Category: Media Archive

  • Are we all ‘coloured’? News 24 (South Africa) 2011-03-09 Max Du Preez We really need to find new terminology for the different population groups in South Africa, especially now that we’re moving back into a political culture of obsession with race. Problem One: if “coloured” means people of mixed blood, then the vast majority of…

  • Birthers’ shameful racist roots The Boston Globe 2011-05-02 James Carroll It was not up to President Obama to label the birther movement as racist in his extraordinary address on the subject last week, but plenty of commentary has done it for him. There can be no doubt that the lurid contempt shown to the president…

  • Breaking the Black-White Binary Fathom: the source for online learning Columbia University 2002 Gary Okihiro, Professor of International and Public Affairs Columbia University Where do Asians fall in the American construct of race? According to Gary Okihiro, the director of Columbia University’s Center for Race and Ethnicity, the position of Asians has had to be…

  • Five Myths About Multiracial People in the U.S. About.com: Race Relations 2011-04-09 Nadra Kareem Nittle When Barack Obama set his sights on the presidency, newspapers suddenly began devoting a lot more ink to the multiracial identity. Media outlets from Time Magazine and the New York Times to the British-based Guardian and BBC News pondered the…

  • Responsible Mixed Race Politics How do identities matter? Stanford University 2005-01-13 Presentation by: Ronald Sundstrom, Associate Professor of African American Studies University of San Francisco The harshest critics of mixed-race have claimed that the identity is self-indulgent and irresponsible, because it evades or, worse, is complicit in racism. Such strident condemnations of mixed-race identity are…

  • Editorial: Implications of racial distinctions for body composition and its diagnostic assessment American Journal of Clinical Nutrition Volume 71, Number 6 (June 2000) pages 1387-1389 Print ISSN: 0002-9165; Online ISSN: 1938-3207 Noel W. Solomons, Scientific Director and co-Founder Center for Studies of Sensory Impairment, Aging and Metabolism (CeSSIAM) Shiriki Kumanyika, Professor of Epidemiology University of…

  • Reliability of race assessment based on the race of the ascendants: a cross-sectional study BMC Public Health Volume 2, Number 1 (2002-01-16) DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-2-1 5 pages Sandra C. Fuchs Department of Social Medicine, School of Medicine Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Sylvia M. Guimarães Department of Internal Medicine,…

  • Racial inequalities and perinatal health in the southeast region of Brazil Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research Volume 40, Number 9 (September 2007) pages 1187-1194 DOI: 10.1590/S0100-879X2006005000144 ISSN 1678-4510 L. M. Silva Departamento de Saúde Pública Universidade Federal do Maranhão, São Luís, MA, Brasil R. A. Silva Departamento de Saúde Pública Universidade Federal do…

  • Recasting the Real: Reconstructivism: A Response to Hybridity in Contemporary Art Methodologies The University of Alabama McNair Journal The McNair Scholars Program Volume 7 (Spring 2007) pages 65-84 Suzanah Moorer While many artists are taking an interdisciplinary approach to art making, currently there is not a critical consensus on the direction and significance of hybrid…

  • Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism [Review: Spickard] American Studies Volume 50, No. 1/2: Spring/Summer 2009 pages 125-127 Paul Spickard, Professor of History University of California, Santa Barbara Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism. Jared Sexton. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2008. One of the major developments in ethnic studies over…