Category: Media Archive

  • Medical Experimentation and Race in the Eighteenth-century Atlantic World Social History of Medicine Volume 26, Issue 3 (August 2013) pages 364-382 DOI: 10.1093/shm/hkt011 Londa Schiebinger, The John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science Stanford University This article examines medical experimentation with humans in the Atlantic world. Physicians in this period tended to use bodies…

  • imagining hybrid cities The State 2013-07-25 Tiana Reid I started this series on crossing and mixing by considering temporality and its hold on how we imagine hybridity. The recent discourse centered on the unshakable ‘browning’ or ‘beiging’ of mostly urban populations in the decades to come offers itself up through the prevailing ‘hybrid futures’ narrative.…

  • Obama’s “Double Consciousness” On Race The New Yorker 2013-07-26 Jonathan Alter, Author, Reporter, Columnist, TV Analyst, Lecturer More than a century ago, W. E. B. Du Bois wrote of the “double consciousness” of the black man: “One ever feels his two-ness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings.” President Barack Obama’s extemporaneous…

  • White-Race Problems: White Hispanic, White Black, Geraldo Rivera Living Anthropologically: Anthropology – Understanding – Possibility 2013-07-25 Jason Antrosio, Associate Professor of Anthropology Hartwick College, Oneonta, New York A strange meme circulates, apparently fueled by Geraldo Rivera’s White Hispanic, Yellow Journalism. It goes like this: George Zimmerman is not really white, he’s Hispanic, and so the…

  • Interracial Families in 18th-Century Mexico The Root 2013-07-23 Unknown artist working in New Spain (Mexico), De español y negra mulata, oil on canvas, 36 by 48 cm (Museo de America, Madrid) Image of the Week: A painting captures the multiethnic population in New Spain, now Mexico. One of the most typical, revealing products of colonial…

  • Published in 2003, this groundbreaking, 288-page volume edited by Maria P. P. Root, Ph.D. and Matt Kelley, offers 35 chapters to assist the people who work with children to serve multiracial youth with compassion and competence.

  • Taking race out of the equation in measuring women’s risk of osteoporosis and fractures UCLA Newsroom University of California, Los Angeles 2012-10-18 Enrique Rivero For women of mixed racial or ethnic backgrounds, a new method for measuring bone health may improve the odds of correctly diagnosing their risk of osteoporosis and bone fractures, according to…

  • SOCI 395-005: Plessy to Martin: Race and Politics George Mason University Fairfax, Virginia Fall 2013 Rutledge M. Dennis, Professor of Sociology This course examines the issues, individuals, and groups central to the intersectionality of race, culture, and politics in American life. We will begin with the landmark Plessy v. Ferguson case which solidified and legitimized…

  • “In 2004, I discovered my biological dad was African-American,” said Mr. Lee, who had been raised in a Korean family in Germany. “It had basically been a one-night stand. He ran away when he learned she was pregnant. She doesn’t even remember his name anymore.”

  • Obama bares his ‘blackness’ in Trayvon speech The Buffalo News 2013-07-20 Sonya Ross The Associated Press In a move unparalleled among presidents, Barack Obama reflects on being black in America. WASHINGTON – Something in President Obama’s voice caught Gregory C. Ellison’s ear. It was fleeting, subtle, and easy to miss — unless you’re a black…