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  • Why did the BBC cast a mixed-race Porthos in The Musketeers?

    Why did the BBC cast a mixed-race Porthos in The Musketeers? The Guardian 2014-01-28 Stuart Jeffries, Feature Writer and Columnist Certain viewers are non-plussed by the casting of a musketeer of colour, but surely blind casting is preferable to an historical whitewash Studs in leather? Check. Swordplay? Check. Buckled swash? Check. Medieval cleavages? Check. Over-complicated…

  • Lecture: Evolutionary Versus Racial Medicine: Why It Matters

    Lecture: Evolutionary Versus Racial Medicine: Why It Matters Wake Forest University Broyhill Auditorium in Farrell Hall 1834 Wake Forest Road Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27106 Thursday, 2014-02-06, 19:00 EST (Local Time) Dr. Joseph L. Graves Jr., Associate Dean for Research, Joint School of Nanoscience & Nanoengineering, North Carolina A&T State University & UNC-Greensboro, will discuss the…

  • The Global Obama: Crossroads of Leadership in the 21st Century

    The Global Obama: Crossroads of Leadership in the 21st Century Routledge 2013-11-29 344 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-1-84872-625-3 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-84872-626-0 Edited by: Dinesh Sharma, Senior Fellow Institute for International and Cross-Cultural Research St. Francis College, New York Uwe P. Gielen, Founder and Executive Director Institute for International and Cross-Cultural Psychology St. Francis College, New York…

  • Skin color remains big barrier

    Skin color remains big barrier The Korea Times 2014-01-27 Park Si-soo Min Kyung-joon (alias) is a “good boy” in many aspects. The freshman at a middle school in Ansan, Gyeonggi Province, has been acknowledged by his teachers for his outstanding academic achievement and affable personality. Min is also very actively engaged in sports, which explains…

  • Alexandre Dumas: An Original Writer of Colour

    A new generation of viewers are being introduced to the swashbuckling adventures of D’Artagnan and his friends and brothers in arms Athos, Porthos and Aramis. Many will know their motto, “All for one, One for all”…

  • Barack Hussein Obama, or, The Name of the Father

    Barack Hussein Obama, or, The Name of the Father The Scholar & Feminist Online Barnard Center for Research on Women Barnard College, New York, New York Issue 7.2 (Spring 2009) Tavia Nyong’o, Associate Professor of Performance Studies New York University To name, to give names that it will on occasion be forbidden to pronounce, such…

  • Research Project on “Mixed Race” Identity: Call for Edmonton, Canada Area Participants

    Research Project on “Mixed Race” Identity: Call for Edmonton, Canada Area Participants University of Alberta Edmonton, Canada 2014-01-31 Jillian Paragg, Ph.D. Student Department of Sociology Are you of mixed racial background? Do you/have you identified as “mixed race”, “multiracial”, or with other “mixed” self-identifications (i.e. biracial, mulatto, eurasian, happa, creole etc.)? Do other people identify…

  • New Orleans After the Civil War: Race, Politics, and a New Birth of Freedom by Justin A. Nystrom (review)

    New Orleans After the Civil War: Race, Politics, and a New Birth of Freedom by Justin A. Nystrom (review) Register of the Kentucky Historical Society Volume 111, Number 4, Autumn 2013 pages 617-619 DOI: 10.1353/khs.2014.0023 Aaron Astor, Associate professor of History Maryville College, Maryville, Tennessee Nystrom, Justin A., New Orleans after the Civil War: Race,…

  • Cheerios revisits mixed-race family for Super Bowl spot

    Cheerios revisits mixed-race family for Super Bowl spot Today 2014-01-29 Ben Popken, Senior Staff Writer/Editor For its first ever Super Bowl ad, Cheerios is telling racists to “stick a spoon in it.” General Mills is portraying in its big game spot the same mixed-race family that drew so many hateful remarks on YouTube last May…