Category: Media Archive

  • What Does the Education Dept. Know About Race? The Chronicle of Higher Education 2014-04-28 Johnah Newman, Database Reporter Our post last week on minority enrollment and diversity at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor sparked a lively debate in the comments section about demographic data and diversity. “I must admit that I am scratching…

  • For dark-skinned Mexicans, taint of discrimination lingers McClatchy DC: Watching Washington and the World 2013-08-22 Tim Johnson, McClatchy Foreign Staff MEXICO CITY — Flip through the print publications exalting the activities of Mexico’s high society and there’s one thing you rarely find: dark-skinned people. No matter that nearly two-thirds of Mexicans consider themselves moreno, the…

  • Opinion: Supreme Court ruling upholds America’s mixed view Cable News Network (CNN) 2014-04-24 Martha S. Jones, Arthur F Thurnau Professor, Associate Professor of History and Afroamerican and African Studies University of Michigan (CNN) — I didn’t expect to find the specter of the mixed-race person making an appearance in Tuesday’s Supreme Court decision that upheld…

  • General Mills CEO: Doubling down on mixed-race commercial was ‘right thing’ to do Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal 2014-04-22 Nick Halter, Staff Reporter General Mills Inc. CEO Ken Powell told a crowd of minority business owners Tuesday that his company didn’t give into racist hate mail when it doubled down on a Cheerios commercial that featured…

  • Chinese Cubans: A transnational history by Kathleen Lopez (review) [Roopnarine] Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History Volume 15, Number 1, Spring 2014 DOI: 10.1353/cch.2014.0018 Lomarsh Roopnarine, Associate Professor of Latin American and Caribbean History Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi López, Kathleen, Chinese Cubans: A Transnational History (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013) Without…

  • On race, the US is not as improved as some would have us believe The Guardian 2014-04-20 Gary Younge Despite the legacy of civil rights, some doors remain firmly closed. And across the US, schools are resegregating At the march on Washington in August 1963, where Martin Luther King made his “I have a dream…

  • Josephine Baker’s Rainbow Tribe Slate 2014-04-18 Rebecca Onion To prove that racial harmony was possible, the dancer adopted 12 children from around the globe—and charged admission to watch them coexist. Beginning in 1953, almost 30 years after her first successful performances on the Paris stage, the singer and dancer Josephine Baker adopted 12 children from…

  • An Afropean Journey Africa is a Country 2014-03-21 Johny Pitts A few years ago, on a snowy January evening, a stranger mistook me for someone he had seen the previous week, aboard an evening train heading to Frankfurt. The moment lasted seconds, but our brief encounter would serve as a catalyst for what became a…

  • Abuse of Modernity: Japanese Biological Determinism and Identity Management in Colonial Korea Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review Number 10, March 2014 26 pages Mark Caprio Rikkyo University, Ikebukuro, Tokyo, Japan Medical researcher Kubo Takeshi’s contributions to professional publications, such as Chōsen igakkai zasshi (The Korean medical journal), and more popular magazines, such as…

  • Race Radiolab Season 5, Episode 3, April 2014 Shea Walsh This hour of Radiolab, a look at race. When the human genome was first fully mapped in 2000, Bill Clinton, Craig Venter, and Francis Collins took the stage and pronounced that “The concept of race has no genetic or scientific basis.” Great words spoken with…