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  • The myth of race

    The myth of race The Cripplegate 2015-10-22 Jesse Johnson, Teaching Pastor Immanuel Bible Church, Springfield, Virginia One of the most harmful effects of evolutionary theory is the concept of race. Despite having zero scientific validity to it, the idea that human beings can be categorized into general “races” that are supposedly connected to their biology…

  • Why Germany’s latest Nazi satire ‘Heil’ isn’t brave enough

    Why Germany’s latest Nazi satire ‘Heil’ isn’t brave enough Deutsche Welle 2015-07-16 Sarah Hofmann An unlikely spokesman Neo-Nazi boss Sven (left, played by Beno Fürmann) celebrates a victory. He kidnapped Afro-German author Sebastian Klein (played by Jerry Hoffmann), who suffers from amnesia after behind hit on the head. Klein starts mimicking everything the neo-Nazis say.…

  • Young Mr. Obama: Chicago and the Making of a Black President

    Young Mr. Obama: Chicago and the Making of a Black President Bloomsbury Press 2010 288 pages 5 1/2″ x 8 1/4″ Hardback ISBN: 9781608190607 Edward McClelland Barack Obama’s inspirational politics and personal mythology have overshadowed his fascinating history. Young Mr. Obama gives us the missing chapter: the portrait of the politician as a young leader,…

  • Caribbean Racisms: Connections and Complexities in the Racialization of the Caribbean Region

    This book identifies and engages with an analysis of racism in the Caribbean region, providing an empirically-based theoretical re-framing of both the racialisation of the globe and evaluation of the prospects for anti-racism and the post-racial.

  • Black Magic Woman and Narrative Film: Race, Sex and Afro-Religiosity

    Black Magic Woman and Narrative Film: Race, Sex and Afro-Religiosity Palgrave Macmillan July 2015 216 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9781137454171 Ebook (EPUB) ISBN: 9781137454195 Ebook (PDF) ISBN: 9781137454188 Montré Aza Missouri, Associate Professor in Film Howard University, Washington, D.C. Contributing to emerging scholarship on representations of race, gender, sexuality and religion in film and media, Black…

  • Cook: Race and the practice of medicine

    Cook: Race and the practice of medicine The Casper Star Tribune Casper, Wyoming 2015-10-24 Edith Cook Edith Cook/Perspective We now know once and for all that race is not a biological phenomenon but a social construct. The Human Genome Project, completed in 2000, established that, genetically, all of us human beings are more than 99.9…

  • 309 | Passing in White America

    309 | Passing in White America Chicago Humanities Festival Karla Scherer Endowed Lecture Series for the University of Chicago Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts Film Screening Room 201 915 E 60th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637 Sunday, 2015-10-25; 17:30-18:30 CDT (Local Time) Between the 18th and 20th centuries, countless African Americans passed as…

  • Playing and Praying at Wild Goose — Student Kenji Kuramitsu

    I had heard of Wild Goose Festival from friends who had braved the woods in years past, but I wasn’t sure it was my kind of thing. I certainly didn’t expect to be a part of the gathering anytime soon. Then my friend Micky asked me to attend. She wanted to know if I would…

  • what we talk about when we talk about whiteness

    Sometimes I engage in conversations about whiteness that make people bristle. Questions are often raised like: so is “white” automatically wrong? Why is “whiteness” evil? Are you saying “white people” are inherently bad? My impression is that there is a bit of talking past one another that happens in these discussions, so it is my…

  • The Many Problems With, “I Want Mixed Babies”

    The Many Problems With, “I Want Mixed Babies” Chescaleigh 2015-10-23 Franchesca Ramsey