Category: Media Archive

  • Louisiana’s “Creoles of Color”: Ethnicity, Marginality, and Identity Social Science Quarterly Volume 73 Issue 3, September 1992 pages 615- James H. Dormon, Alumni Distinguished Professor of History and American Studies University of Southwestern Louisiana This article traces the ethnohistory of Creoles of color, beginning with an examination of the social-historical order out of which they…

  • The House on Bayou Road: Atlantic Creole Networks in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries The Journal of American History Volume 100, Issue 1 (June 2013) pages 21-45 DOI: 10.1093/jahist/jat082 Pierre Force, Professor of French and History Columbia University n 1813 a free man of color named Charles Decoudreau living in New Orleans went to court…

  • Pacific Islanders: a Misclassified People The Chronicle of Higher Education 2013-06-03 Kawika Riley, Chief Executive and Founder Pacific Islander Access Project also adjunct lecturer at George Washington University Imagine that you’re a parent, teacher, or counselor who helped a promising student apply for financial aid. She’s an underrepresented minority, so you encouraged her to apply…

  • Passing Strange: Shakespeare, Race, and Contemporary America by Ayanna Thompson (Klett review) Theatre Journal Volume 65, Number 2, May 2013 pages 303-304 DOI: 10.1353/tj.2013.0043 Elizabeth Klett, Assistant Professor of Literature University of Houston, Clear Lake Ayanna Thompson’s exciting book analyzes a wide variety of sites for performing, interrogating, and dismantling Shakespeare and race in contemporary…

  • Lung function, race and ethnicity: a conundrum European Respiratory Journal Volume 41, Number 6  (June 1, 2013) pages 1249-1250 DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00053913 Philip H. Quanjer Deptartment of Pulmonary Diseases and Department of Paediatrics Erasmus Medical Centre Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands In this issue Braun et al. make a plea for an international workshop to review…

  • Defining race/ethnicity and explaining difference in research studies on lung function European Respiratory Journal Volume 41, Number 6  (June 1, 2013) pages 1362-1370 DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00091612 Lundy Braun, Royce Family Professor in Teaching Excellence and Professor of Medical Science and Africana Studies Brown University Melanie Wolfgang Brown University Kay Dickersin, Professor, Director, Center for Clinical Trials…

  • Mixed Ethnicity, Hidden Identity The New York Times 2013-05-24 Kathryn Shattuck With his long-lashed chocolate eyes and inviting lips, used to seductive effect in “Rescue Me,” “Grey’s Anatomy” and “The Devil Wears Prada,” Daniel Sunjata has the kind of face not easily forgotten, or so you’d think “If I’m exposed to crowds repeatedly, I could…

  • Race Appeal: How Candidates Invoke Race in U.S. Political Campaigns Temple University Press January 2011 272 pages 6 x 9 38 tables, 23 halftones paper ISBN: 978-1-43990-276-9 cloth: ISBN: 978-1-43990-275-2 e-Book ISBN: 978-1-43990-277-6 Charlton D. McIlwain, Associate Professor of Media, Culture and Communication New York University Stephen M. Caliendo, Professor of Political Science North Central…

  • OMB’s Preliminary Recommendation & an IV Commentary Interracial Voice [1995-2003] July 1997 Charles Michael Byrd The Office of Management and Budget announced last Wednesday (07-09-97) that Americans could choose more than one racial category on Census and other federal forms but would have no new “multiracial” box to check under new rules the agency proposed.…

  • Why the multiracial community must march on July 20! Interracial Voice [1995-2003] July 1996 Charles Michael Byrd Any group needs and deserves to know why someone makes a particular decision, especially when that person asks them to act upon that decision, to contribute and participate. So, too, you need to understand the reasons behind the…