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  • Pilot Episode

    Pilot Episode The Source Weekly Bend, Oregon 2014-03-20 Brianna Brey Jason Graham (The Source Weekly) The Lot’s new open mic calls on Bend’s creative types “Calling ALL local musicians, artist and hacks,” reads the event listing for Bend’s newest open mic night, an free-for-all gathering on Wednesday nights at The Lot. “Sing a tune, read…

  • Immigrants Stir New Life Into São Paulo’s Gritty Old Center

    Immigrants Stir New Life Into São Paulo’s Gritty Old Center The New York Times 2014-04-14 Simon Romero, Brazil Bureau Chief SÃO PAULO, Brazil — For obvious reasons, many Paulistanos still consider this megacity’s decrepit old center a no-go zone. Carjacking and kidnapping gangs prey on motorists at stoplights. Squatters control dozens of graffiti-splattered apartment buildings.…

  • Will Today’s Hispanics Be Tomorrow’s Whites?

    Will Today’s Hispanics Be Tomorrow’s Whites? Slate 2014-04-15 Jamelle Bouie, staff writer covering politics, policy, and race How Hispanics perceive themselves may shape the future of race in America. The Trayvon Martin shooting was hardly in the national consciousness before fault lines emerged around the case. Was Martin as innocent as he seemed? Did Zimmerman…

  • Improving Anti-Racist Education for Multiracial Students

    This dissertation explores how anti‐racist education might be improved, so that it more effectively teaches Multiracial students about racism.

  • I Was Racially Profiled in My Own Driveway

    I Was Racially Profiled in My Own Driveway The Atlantic 2014-04-14 Doug Glanville A retired Major League Baseball player explains how he’s trying to turn an upsetting encounter with the police into an opportunity for dialogue. It was an otherwise ordinary snow day in Hartford, Connecticut, and I was laughing as I headed outside to…

  • Barack Obama’s Warning to People of Mixed Heritage

    Barack Obama’s Warning to People of Mixed Heritage Eighth Generation 2014-01-22 Louie Gong Back in April 2005, a group of mixed people sponsored by the nonprofit MAVIN had the golden opportunity to sit down with the then-Senator Obama. The conversation, filmed as part of the feature length documentary “Chasing Daybreak,” may be the only interview…

  • Americans Say Obama’s Not Black? How Pew Got This Wrong

    Americans Say Obama’s Not Black? How Pew Got This Wrong The Root 2014-04-14 Jenée Desmond-Harris, Senior Staff Writer and White House Correspondent Saying “Yes, Obama is mixed race” is not the same as saying “No, he’s not black.” Racial Identity 101: You can be both. Twenty-seven percent of Americans say President Barack Obama is black,…

  • Forget Policy—Americans Can’t Even Agree on Whether Obama Is Black

    Forget Policy—Americans Can’t Even Agree on Whether Obama Is Black TakePart 2014-04-15 Liz Dwyer, Staff Writer A Pew Research Center study finds that whites and Latinos identify the commander-in-chief as ‘mixed race.’ If you thought the United States had achieved the significant historic milestone of electing its first African American president, think again. According to…

  • The Next America

    The Next America Pew Research Center 2014-04-10 Paul Taylor, Executive Vice President of Special Projects Demographic transformations are dramas in slow motion. America is in the midst of two right now. Our population is becoming majority non-white at the same time a record share is going gray. Each of these shifts would by itself be…

  • Book Release of Prof. Lundy Braun’s Breathing Race into the Machine

    Book Release of Prof. Lundy Braun’s Breathing Race into the Machine Brown University Providence, Rhode Island Program in Science and Technology Studies 2014-03-26 This February, Royce Family Professor in Teaching Excellence, professor of medical science and Africana studies, and a member of the Science and Technology Studies Program, Lundy Braun released her new book Breathing…