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  • Black, White, and Many Shades of Gray

    Black, White, and Many Shades of Gray Harvard Magazine May-June 2013 Craig Lambert Randall Kennedy probes the “variousness” of charged racial issues. In The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama, David Remnick relates a story from Obama’s first year at Harvard Law School, when he registered for “Race, Racism, and American Law,” a…

  • We Are Not Going To Go Away

    We Are Not Going To Go Away “Colonial Williamsburg” Journal Spring 2013 Andrew G. Gardner Virginia’s Pamunkey Indians Greeted the Jamestown Settlers, but They Are Still Waiting for National Recognition Beyond Virginia’s borders, the Pamunkey Indians are remembered, when they are remembered at all, mostly for a princess named Pocahontas. England’s Queen Elizabeth II probably…

  • Sheila K. Johnson on Yokohama Yankee

    Sheila K. Johnson on Yokohama Yankee Los Angeles Review of Books 2013-03-13 Sheila K. Johnson, Anthropologist, Gerontologist, and Freelance Writer Oh, To Be Japanese! MANY FOREIGNERS have fallen in love with Japan — its physical beauty, its culture, its people. Most of these foreigners have been men, and some have married Japanese women or taken…

  • Hot Colors: Race, Sex, and Love

    Hot Colors: Race, Sex, and Love Harvard Magazine March-April 2003 Craig Lambert Tiger Woods, possibly the world’s best-known athlete, resists being called a “black” golfer. He coined the term “Cablinasian” (Caucasian, black, Indian, Asian) to identify his race, and used it on the Oprah Winfrey television show after winning the 1997 Masters tournament. Although Woods’s…

  • Black pols stymied in Obama era

    Black pols stymied in Obama era Politico 2013-04-29 Jonathan Martin, Senior Political Reporter More than five years after Barack Obama won the Iowa caucuses and demolished the notion that white voters wouldn’t support a black presidential candidate, progress for other African-American politicians remains elusive. Even as the country elected and reelected Obama, making it seem…

  • White Without Soap: Philanthropy, Caste and Exclusion in Colonial Victoria 1835-1888, A Political Economy of Race

    White Without Soap: Philanthropy, Caste and Exclusion in Colonial Victoria 1835-1888, A Political Economy of Race University of Melbourne Custom Book Centre 2010 318 pages Paperback ISBN: 0980759420, 9780980759426 Marguerita Stephens Explores the connections between nineteenth century imperial anthropology, racial ‘science’ and the imposition of colonising governance on the Aborigines of Port Phillip/Victoria between 1835 and…

  • Interview: Nia King, “Bodies on the Line”

    Interview: Nia King, “Bodies on the Line” Mixed Reader: A blog of mixed race literature 2013-04-27 Tali Weinberg Nia King is multimedia producer with a passion for social justice. She started out as a zinester writing about mixed-race identity, made a short film about searching for trans-friendly housing in the Bay Area, and has recently…

  • On Being Brown in America

    On Being Brown in America The New York Times 2013-04-25 Amitava Kumar, Writer and Professor of English Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York The recent bombings in Boston threw up many questions. One of the most pressing, in my somewhat narrow view, is the meaning of being brown in America. On April 17, two days after…

  • Tries to Marry Quadroon

    Tries to Marry Quadroon Los Angeles Herald Volume 35, Number 31 (1907-11-02) page 2, column 6 Source: California Digital Newspaper Collection By Associated Press YUMA, Ariz,, Nov. 1-M. G. Graff, aged 21 years, white, of Riverside, Cal., and Addle Burkhart, aged 20, were refused the office of marriage by Probate Judge Godfrey here today and…

  • Zumbi dos Palmares College encourages Afro-Brazilians to study

    Zumbi dos Palmares College encourages Afro-Brazilians to study Infosurhoy.com 2012-04-27 InfoSurHoy.com is a one-stop source of news and information about, and for, Latin America and the Caribbean. It is sponsored by the United States Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM). Thiago Borges Opened in 2004 in São Paulo, the institution reserves 50% of its enrollment for people of…