Category: Media Archive

  • Scientific Racism and the Emergence of the Homosexual Body Journal of the History of Sexuality Volume 5, Number 2 (October, 1994) pages 243-266 Siobhan Somerville, Associate Professor University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign One of the most important insights developed in the fields of lesbian and gay history and the history of sexuality has been the notion…

  • Eduardo Bonilla-Silva’s acclaimed “Racism without Racists” documents how beneath our contemporary conversation about race lies a full-blown arsenal of arguments, phrases, and stories that whites use to account for—and ultimately justify—racial inequalities. This provocative book explodes the belief that America is now a color-blind society.

  • The Uniqueness of Dante de Blasio Gotham Gazette: The Place or New York Policy and Politics New York, New York 2013-09-24 Andy Beveridge, Professor of Sociology Queens College, City University of New York As New York took in the extent of the win by Bill de Blasio in the Democratic primary for mayor, the impact…

  • Geneticists and the Biology of Race Crossing Science Magazine Volume 182, Number 4114 (1973-11-23) pages 790-796 DOI: 10.1126/science.182.4114.790 William B. Provine, Andrew H. and James S. Tisch Distinguished University Professor Cornell University Geneticists changed their minds about the biological effects of race crossing Geneticists in England and the United States clearly reversed their published remarks…

  • De Blasio Responds to Lhota’s Doomsday Ad With a Cheery One Politicker 2013-10-17 Colin Campbell Tale of Two Ads A day after Joe Lhota released an ad warning of apocalyptic results if rival Bill de Blasio is elected mayor–complete with photos of race riots and corpses–Mr. de Blasio is out with a new spot of…

  • Fitting Into the Right Box: Multiracial America on the Rise Brown Political Review 2013-10-18 Meg Sullivan As swimmer Michael Phelps knows, one of the highest priorities of food corporations is maintaining their squeaky clean mainstream appeal. This usually involves companies giving wide berth to any manner of controversy, but Cheerios ignored this policy four months…

  • Blow to multiple human species idea BBC News 2013-10-17 Melissa Hogenboom, Science Reporter The idea that there were several different human species walking the Earth two million years ago has been dealt a blow. Instead, scientists say early human fossils found in Africa and Eurasia may have been part of the same species. Writing in…

  • An Essentially American Narrative The New York Times 2013-10-11 Nelson George A Discussion of Steve McQueen’s Film ‘12 Years a Slave’ Amid comic book epics, bromantic comedies and sequels of sequels, films about America’s tortured racial history have recently emerged as a surprisingly lucrative Hollywood staple. In the last two years, “The Help,” “Lincoln,””Django Unchained,””42”…

  • Mary Seacole: The Charismatic Black Nurse Who Became a Heroine of the Crimea [new edition] Constable & Robinson 2006-11-16 288 pages Paperback ISBN: 9781845294977 Jane Robinson The ‘Greatest Black Briton in History’ triumphed over the Crimea and Victorian England. She became an independent ‘doctress’ combining the herbal remedies of her African ancestry with sound surgical…

  • Playwright Sarah Rutherford: ‘Middle-class, mixed-race families are invisible on our stages’ What’s on Stage London 2013-10-10 Editorial Staff As her new play Adult Supervision premieres at the Park Theatre, playwright Sarah Rutherford discusses multiculturalism in modern Britain What’s Adult Supervision about? It’s set in 2008 and it’s about a white ex-lawyer, Natasha, who’s adopted two…