Category: Media Archive

  • Walking Down The Widening Aisle Of Interracial Marriages Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity Weekend Edition Saturday National Public Radio 2014-02-15 Hansi Lo Wang Editor’s Note: Code Switch has been engaged in a month-long exploration of romance across racial and cultural lines. Follow the Twitter conversation via the hashtag #xculturelove. The numbers are…

  • Who intermarries in Britain? Explaining ethnic diversity in intermarriage patterns The British Journal of Sociology Volume 61, Issue 2 (June 2010) pages 275–305 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-4446.2010.01313.x Raya Muttarak, Visiting Fellow Department of Political and Social Sciences European University Institute Anthony Heath, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Emeritus Fellow of Nuffield College University of Oxford This paper investigates…

  • Breath of Freedom The Smithsonian Channel Premieres Monday, 2014-02-17 20:00 EST Narrated by Cuba Gooding Jr. They fought to liberate Germany from Nazi rule, as racism reached unfathomable levels. Their fight would continue back home on American soil. This is the story of the one-million-plus African Americans who fought in World War II. Discover their…

  • In “Josephine Baker and the Rainbow Tribe,” Matthew Pratt Guterl brings out a little known side of the celebrated personality, showing how her ambitions of later years were even more daring and subversive than the youthful exploits that made her the first African American superstar.

  • In a moving account, anthropologist Paula L. Wagoner tells the story of Bennett County, using snapshots of community events and crises, past and present, to reveal the complexity of race relations and identities there.

  • Baseball’s Secret Pioneer Slate 2014-02-04 Peter Morris, Baseball Historian Haslett, Michigan Stefan Fatsis, Sports Writer William Edward White, the first black player in major-league history, lived his life as a white man. On June 22, 1937, Joe Louis knocked out James Braddock with a right to the jaw to become the world heavyweight champion. At…

  • Elsie’s Business University of Nebraska Press 2006 216 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8032-9865-1 Frances Washburn, Associate Professor of American Indian Studies and English University of Arizona Beaten, raped, and left for dead at the side of a road on the Standing Rock Reservation, young Elsie Roberts disappears into her self to revisit the haunts of her…

  • “Tuning Out Blackness” fills a glaring omission in U.S. and Latin American television studies by looking at the history of Puerto Rican television.

  • The ‘white’ student who integrated Ole Miss Cable News Network (CNN) 2014-02-05 Allyson Hobbs, Assistant Professor of American History Stanford University (CNN) — When Harry S. Murphy arrived at the University of Mississippi in the fall of 1945, he was nervous. He landed at Ole Miss by way of the Navy’s V-12 program, a wartime…

  • Biracial, and also black Cable News Network (CNN) 2014-02-12 Martha S. Jones, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Associate Professor of History University of Michigan (CNN) — My winter 2010 seminar began the way I start every class. I made introductory remarks about themes and requirements for my course on the history of race, law and marriage…