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  • Discussing Trayvon Martin, Obama Embraces his Blackness

    Discussing Trayvon Martin, Obama Embraces his Blackness The American Prospect 2013-07-19 Jamelle Bouie, Staff Writer On Obama’s remarks this afternoon. When President Obama issued a pro forma statement following last week’s verdict in the Zimmerman trial, there was some disappointment—“Why didn’t he say more?” It only takes a small step back to see the answer;…

  • Fracture Risk Assessment without Race/Ethnicity Information

    Fracture Risk Assessment without Race/Ethnicity Information The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism Volume 97, Number 10 (2012-10-01) pages 3593-3602 DOI: 10.1210/jc.2012-1997 Shinya Ishii Department of Geriatric Medicine (S.I.) Graduate School of Medicine University of Tokyo Gail A. Greendale David Geffen School of Medicine University of California, Los Angeles Jane A. Caule Graduate School of…

  • Crossed Lines in the Racialization Process: Race as a Border Concept

    Crossed Lines in the Racialization Process: Race as a Border Concept Research in Phenomenology Volume 42, Issue 2 (2012) pages 206-228 DOI: 10.1163/156916412X651201 Robert Bernasconi, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy and African American Studies Pennsylvania State University The phenomenological approach to racialization needs to be supplemented by a hermeneutics that examines the history of…

  • Voice of the voiceless? Multiethnic student voices in critical approaches to race, pedagogy, literacy and agency

    Voice of the voiceless? Multiethnic student voices in critical approaches to race, pedagogy, literacy and agency Linguistics and Education Volume 24, Issue 3, September 2013 pages 348–360 DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2013.03.005 Benji Chang, Adjunct Assistant Professor and Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Curriculum & Teaching Teachers College, Columbia University, New York In this article, the author utilizes critical…

  • Burton Mixed Heritage Oral Hers/His story project

    Burton Mixed Heritage Oral Hers/His story project East Staffordshire Rights & Equality Council (ESREC) July 2012 39 pages The mixed heritage community is the fastest growing ethnic minority group in the UK and is predicted to be the largest minority ethnic group by 2020.The ethnicity category Mixed was first introduced in the 2001 UK Census,…

  • ‘Belle’ breaks through the aristocratic color barrier

    ‘Belle’ breaks through the aristocratic color barrier USA Today 2013-07-21 Bryan Alexander British actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw used to envy her classmates from the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London as they moved on to perform in lavish English period dramas. But as an actress of color, she found it difficult to land such…

  • Trayvon Martin, Race and Anthropology

    Trayvon Martin, Race and Anthropology Anthropology News American Anthropological Association 2013-07-19 Leith Mullings, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology City University of New York (and President of the American Anthropological Association) On February 26, 2012, 28-year-old George Zimmerman shot and killed an unarmed 17-year-old African American teenager who, after buying Skittles and iced tea at the local…

  • Mixed Race Studies with Steven Riley [on Research at the National Archives & Beyond]

    Mixed Race Studies with Steven Riley [on Research at the National Archives & Beyond] Research at the National Archives & Beyond Blog Talk Radio Thursday, 2013-07-25, 21:00 EDT, (18:00 PDT), (2013-07-26, 01:00Z, 02:00 BST) Natonne Kemp, Host Steven Riley is the creator of MixedRaceStudies.org which is a non-commercial website that provides a gateway to contemporary interdisciplinary English language…

  • Trayvon Martin and Making Whiteness Visible

    If there’s one good thing to come out of the George Zimmerman verdict, it’s the acknowledgement of white privilege

  • Obama on Trayvon Martin: The first black president speaks out first as a black American

    Obama on Trayvon Martin: The first black president speaks out first as a black American The Washington Post 2013-07-20 David Maraniss Trayvon Martin, the president said, could have been him 35 years ago. That would have been Barack Obama at age 17, then known as Barry and living in Honolulu. He had a bushy Afro.…