Category: Media Archive

  • Pete Souza’s Portrait of a Presidency Time LightBox Time Magazine 2012-10-08 Phil Bicker, Senior Photo Editor Pete Souza/The White House The long view of history tends to be the judge of a presidency. As President Obama embarks on a second term in the Oval Office, it may still be too early to draw conclusions about…

  • 2012 Person of the Year: Barack Obama, the President Time Magazine 2012-12-19 Michael Scherer Photograph by Nadav Kander Twenty-seven years after driving from New York City to Chicago in a $2,000 Honda Civic for a job that probably wouldn’t amount to much, Barack Obama, in better shape but with grayer hair, stood in the presidential…

  • The Black Middle: Africans, Mayas, and Spaniards in Colonial Yucatán (review) Enterprise & Society Volume 13, Number 4, December 2012 pages 932-934 Jeremy Baskes, Professor of History Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio Visitors to modern day Yucatán encounter a region rich in indigenous culture; guidebooks extol the grandeur of ancient Maya kingdoms whose ruins still…

  • Marriages Across Racial, Ethnic Lines on the Rise, Study Says Education Week 2012-02-16 Lesli A. Maxwell, Education Reporter As the number of couples marrying across racial and ethnic lines continues to grow in the United States, public attitudes toward intermarriage are also becoming more accepting, according to a new report by the Pew Research Center.…

  • Identity in “Passing” Allison Tetreault, Journalist and Student November 2011 Allison Tetreault Nella Larsen’s Passing destabilizes the traditional conception of ethnic, racial, and gender integrity, revolutionizing the very idea of an accepted definition of identity. By developing unstable characters, Larsen conveys how easy it is to lose one’s sense of self. Clare Kendry, who breaks…

  • Ethnicity: what the census doesn’t tell us New Internationalist: People, ideans and action for global justice 2012-12-17 Amy Hall, Editorial Intern As the story goes, we are hurtling towards the anniversary of an important census, when Jesus’s family made its way to Bethlehem. Here in Britain, we have recently been analysing the results of our…

  • Reflections on Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations Brooklyn Historical Society November 2012 Rita Kamani-Renedo Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to attend the second biennial Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at DePaul University in Chicago. I was excited to return after having attended the inaugural conference in 2010. This time,…

  • Jessica Ennis, Mo Farah and Identity Language in the British Press: A Case Study in Monitoring and Analysing Print Media Migration Observatory University of Oxford 2012-12-11 10 pages William Allen, Senior Researcher Scott Blinder, Senior Researcher Introduction and context Since July 2012, the Migration Observatory has been building the framework for a Media Monitoring Project.…

  • Soledad O’Brien Is Betting on Jeff Zucker The New York Times Magazine 2012-12-18 Andrew Goldman Your memoir made your experience growing up in Smithtown, a largely white town on Long Island, sound like a huge drag. It really wasn’t. It is truly not fun to be the family that sticks out in an all-white community.…

  • The Color of Colorblind: Addressing the History of Racial Classification and Mixed Racial Identity in the U.S.