Category: Media Archive

  • Making the Chinese Mexican: Global Migration, Localism, and Exclusion in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands [DeLeón Review] Journal of American History Volume 99, Issue 4 (March 2013) page 1284 DOI: 10.1093/jahist/jas678 Arnoldo DeLeón, Professor of History Angelo State University, San Angelo Texas Making the Chinese Mexican: Global Migration, Localism, and Exclusion in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. By Grace…

  • Return to the rainforest: A son’s search for his Amazonian mother BBC News Magazine 2013-08-28 William Kremer BBC World Service David Good’s parents come from different countries – hardly unusual in the US where he was raised. But the 25-year-old’s family is far from ordinary – while his father is American, his mother is a…

  • Too Close for Comfort: Master and Slave Relations in the Colonial Cape The World Is Robert: An assortment of posts related to an unquenchable thirst for knowledge 2013-04-03 Robert Figueroa The effects of propinquity on the nature and development of slavery in colonial Cape society were profound. Unlike the large plantations that evolved in parts…

  • A provocative exploration of how Western standards of beauty are influencing cultures across the globe and impacting personal, professional, romantic and familial relationships.

  • Mapping “Race”: Critical Approaches to Health Disparities Research Rutgers University Press 2013-08-12 256 pages 6 figures, 8 tables, 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-6136-3 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-6137-0 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-8135-6138-7 Edited by: Laura E. Gómez, Professor of Law, Sociology, and Chicano Studies University of California, Los Angeles Nancy López, Associate Professor of Sociology University of…

  • Thomas Cole: Reading the Paintings from The Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper Society Website Oneonta College, State University of New York July 2013 Roberta Gray Katz DePaul University Presented at the 18th Cooper Seminar, James Fenimore Cooper: His Country and His Art at the State University of New York College at Oneonta, July,…

  • Are Latinos “White”? Jesus For Revolutionaries: A Blog About Race, Social Justice, and Christianity 2013-08-30 Robert Chao Romero, Associate Professor of Chicana/o Studies and Asian American Studies University of California, Los Angeles Hundreds of years of cultural politics underly the current debate over the proper racial categorization for Latinos.   For the greater part of U.S.…

  • New Book by Dr. Yaba Blay Explores Racial Identity and Skin Color Politics Drexel Now Drexel University 2013-07-31 News Media Contact: Alex McKechnie, News Officer, University Communications Phone: 215-895-2705; Mobile: 401-651-7550 What does it mean to be Black? Is Blackness a matter of biology or consciousness? What determines who is Black and who is not?…

  • The Debate: Multiracial Identity The Agenda with Steve Paikin TVO (TV Ontario) Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2011-07-22, 20:00 EDT (Local Time) Also at: 2011-07-25, 05:00 EDT (Local Time) Piya Chattopadhyay, Host Guests (in order of appearance) Rainier Spencer, Director of the Afro-American Studies Program University of Nevada, Las Vegas (Author of three books on multiracialism including, Reproducing Race:…

  • Saluting a Dream, and Adapting It for a New Era The New York Times 2013-08-28 Peter Baker and Sheryl Gay Stolberg WASHINGTON — President Obama stepped into the space on Wednesday where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once stood, summoning his iconic dream of a colorblind society in a celebration of a half-century…