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  • The Madonna of Excelsior: A Novel

    The Madonna of Excelsior: A Novel Picador (an imprint of Macmillan) March 2005 288 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches Paperback ISBN: 9780312423827; ISBN10: 0312423829 Zakes Mda, Professor of Creative Writing Ohio University In 1971, nineteen citizens of Excelsior in South Africa’s white-ruled Free State were charged with breaking apartheid’s Immorality Act, which forbade…

  • Should people’s ethnicity matter in their medical treatment?

    Should people’s ethnicity matter in their medical treatment? OnCentral Southern California Public Radio 2012-10-24 José Martinez Chances are, medical research has found that your ethnicity makes you more likely to have certain conditions or diseases. For Latinos, it’s diabetes. For black folks, it’s high blood pressure. For white people, it’s cystic fibrosis. For Asian women,…

  • Parallels to country’s racist past haunt age of Obama

    Parallels to country’s racist past haunt age of Obama Cable News Network In America: You define America. What defines you? 2012-11-01 John Blake, CNN This is the second in an occasional series on issues of race, identity and politics ahead of Election Day, including a look at the optics of politics, a white Southern Democrat…

  • A Spectrum From Slaves to Saints (Art Review)

    A Spectrum From Slaves to Saints (Art Review) The New York Times 2012-11-08 Holland Carter, Staff Art Critic “The Three Mulattoes of Esmereldas” (1599) is one of the works in “Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe,” at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. More Photos ‘African Presence in Renaissance Europe,’ at Walters Museum BALTIMORE…

  • Social Washington: the “Colored” Aristocracy

    Social Washington: the “Colored” Aristocracy Edwardian Promenade 2009-01-08 Evangeline Holland From the end of Reconstruction until the Great War, Washington was the center of the black aristocracy. Nowhere else in the United States possessed such a concentration of “old families,” not merely from the District and nearby Maryland and Virginia, but from throughout the country,…

  • Heterogeneity of risk within racial groups, a challenge for public health programs

    Heterogeneity of risk within racial groups, a challenge for public health programs Preventive Medicine Volume 55, Issue 5, November 2012 Pages 405–408 DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2012.08.022 Sean A. Valles, Assistant Professor Lyman Briggs College, Michigan State University Targeting high-risk populations for public health interventions is a classic tool of public health promotion programs. This practice becomes thornier…

  • Race Under the Microscope: Biological Misunderstandings of Race

    Race Under the Microscope: Biological Misunderstandings of Race Center for Genetics and Society 2012-05-24 Despite the fact that advances in genetics undermine the notion that discrete and distinct racial groups exist at the biological level, the science of genetics is inadvertently reinforcing the myth that race is a biological, rather than a social, category. In…

  • Supreme Court to review key section of Voting Rights Act

    Supreme Court to review key section of Voting Rights Act The Washington Post 2012-11-09 Robert Barnes Aaron C. Davis (contributing) The Supreme Court said Friday it will review a key provision of the Voting Rights Act that has been the federal government’s most forceful tool in protecting minority rights at the polls. The decision ensures…

  • Justices to Revisit Voting Act in View of a Changing South

    Justices to Revisit Voting Act in View of a Changing South The New York Times 2012-11-09 Adam Liptak, Supreme Court Correspondent WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it would take a fresh look at the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the signature legacies of the civil rights…

  • Winton Triangle history in Chicago!

    Winton Triangle history in Chicago! Chowan Discovery Group 2012-11-06 Marvin Jones In Chicago, the CDG got the opportunity to introduce our history to a national audience of academics and students at the Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at DePaul University in Chicago. Writer Lars Adams, of the Chowanoke Descendants website, presented the history of the…