Category: Media Archive

  • Surprises in the Family Tree The New York Times 2004-01-08 Mitchell Owens John Archer first appears in Northampton County, Va., in the mid-17th century. He started a family that prospered, fought in the Revolutionary War and built a mansion. Generations later, Archer’s blood trickled down to me. It mingled in my veins with DNA from…

  • Robert Park’s Marginal Man: The Career of a Concept in American Sociology Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research ISSN 2076-8214 (print) ISSN 2078-1938 (online) Volume 4, Number 2 (2012) pages 199-217 Chad Alan Goldberg, Professor of Sociology University of Wisconsin, Madison Who now reads Robert Park? The answer, it turns out, is that many still…

  • Imagining Brazil: Seduction, Samba Canadian Woman Studies / Les Caheiers de la Femme Volume 20, Number 2 (2000) pages 48-56 Natasha Pravaz, Associate Professor Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada En utilisant des paroles de chants rythmés sur la samba et d‘autre matériel ethnographique, l‘auteure detecte la presence du mulâtre et de propos racistes dans…

  • Celebrating Afro-Venezuelan Heritage Global Exchange Reality Tour Blog 2013-12-13 The following post is written by Reality Tours communications intern William Jones Jr as he explores Afro-Venezuelan identity historically and in its current context. Visit Venezuela on a Reality Tour to learn more about the struggles, contributions, and successes of Afro-Venezuelans. History and Legacy Under the…

  • Ellisville, Miss.—(AP)—A young veteran who served in the navy as a white man and later married a white woman has been convicted of miscegenation and sentenced to five years in prison.

  • Professor shifts the lens on race through portraiture, new book FIU News Florida International University 2014-01-02 Evelyn Perez What is blackness? What does it mean to be black? Is blackness a matter of biology or consciousness? Who and what determine who is black and who is not? A new book by Yaba Blay, co-director of…

  • DNA Double Take The New York Times 2013-09-16 Carl Zimmer From biology class to “C.S.I.,” we are told again and again that our genome is at the heart of our identity. Read the sequences in the chromosomes of a single cell, and learn everything about a person’s genetic information — or, as 23andme, a prominent…

  • The Alternative History of 2013: Alt-Weeklies Year in Review AAN News Association of Alternative Newsmedia 2013-12-19 Jason Zaragoza For our first-ever Alt-Weeklies Year in Review, we asked AAN editors and reporters to share the stories they are the most — and least — proud of from the past year. What follows is an edited version…

  • The trouble with ‘passing’ for another race/sexuality/religion… The Guardian 2014-01-02 Koa Beck Brooklyn, New York The broadening of the definition historically used for those of mixed-race who ‘passed’ as white exposes the power of privilege “Racial passing“, or “passing”, was originally coined to define the experience of mixed raced individuals, particularly in America, who were…

  • Melissa Harris-Perry: LGBT Advocates Need Public Progressive Faith Religion Dispatches Sexuality/Gender University of Southern California 2011-05-31 Peter Montgomery, Associate Editor Political scientist Melissa Harris-Perry has developed a devoted following with her appearances on Bill Moyers Journal and Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC show, and her insightful commentaries on race, history, politics and culture in The Nation and…