Category: Media Archive

  • Race in Rhode Island: Is race just an invention? The Providence Journal Providence, Rhode Island 2015-06-27 Paul Edward Parker Classifications were created to divide people, say educator, historian. When you ask “What is race?” don’t expect a simple answer. And, when you consider Latinos — Are they a race or an ethnicity? — plus America’s…

  • Hawaii is home to the nation’s largest share of multiracial Americans Pew Research Center 2015-06-17 Jens Manuel Krogstad, Writer/Editor, Hispanic Trends Project The number of multiracial Americans is growing nationwide, but in Hawaii, it’s nothing new. The Rainbow State – with its history of attracting immigrants from Asia and other parts of the world to…

  • How a long-dead white supremacist still threatens the future of Virginia’s Indian tribes The Washington Post 2015-07-01 Joe Heim, Staff Writer Walter A. Plecker’s goal as Virginia’s registrar of vital statistics was to ban race-mixing. He declared there were no true Indians left because of marriages with blacks. (Richmond Times-Dispatch) Virginia’s Indian tribes have faced…

  • The ambiguity of racial categories The Washington Post 2015-06-16 Andrew Gelman, Professor of Statistics and Political Science Columbia University, New York, New York Racial classification has been in the news lately with the story of Rachel Dolezal, the NAACP official who is ethnically white but characterized herself as black until the story came out: The…

  • What Is Whiteness? Sunday Review The New York Times 2015-06-20 Nell Irvin Painter, Professor Emerita of History Princeton University The terrorist attack in Charleston, S.C., an atrocity like so many other shameful episodes in American history, has overshadowed the drama of Rachel A. Dolezal’s yearslong passing for black. And for good reason: Hateful mass murder…

  • Post-Magical Thinking America The Offing: A Los Angeles Review of Books Channel 2015-06-05 Matthew Salesses This semester, a strange thing happened. A student came to my office hours to complain about the difficulties of understanding her own oppression. I teach a course called “Asians in the Media” at the University of Houston, where I am…

  • Misty Copeland Is Promoted to Principal Dancer at American Ballet Theater The New York Times 2015-06-30 Michael Cooper Misty Copeland, whose openness about race in ballet helped to make her one of the most famous ballerinas in the United States, was promoted on Tuesday by American Ballet Theater, becoming the first African-American female principal dancer…

  • America’s ‘Postracial’ Fantasy The New York Times Magazine 2015-06-30 Anna Holmes Illustration by Javier Jaén For millions of mixed-race people, identity fits more than one box, but we still see one another in black and white. On Father’s Day, my dad and I had brunch with some close friends of mine. The conversation soon turned…

  • As we harvest ever more human genomes one fact remains unshakeable: race does not exist

  • The fiction of race hides the real source of racism and inequity in America today.