Category: Media Archive

  • The Obamas and a (Post) Racial America? Oxford University Press January 2011 336 pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 Hardback ISBN13: 9780199735204; ISBN10: 0199735204 Edited by Gregory Parks, Assistant Professor of Law Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina Matthew Hughey, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Connecticut The United States has taken a long and winding…

  • Newsletter Premiere! National Association of Mixed Student Organizations (NAMSO) Newsletter 1.1 October 2012 We are thrilled to be sending our first-ever bimonthly newsletter to you.  A new NAMSO initiative, this newsletter is intended to gather and broadcast a trove of updates related to the mixed heritage/multiracial/transracial adoptee community, with a focus on student organizations.   …

  • A.C.T.O.R. presents Dorothy Roberts Busboys and Poets 14th & V Streets, NW Washington, D.C. Langston Room 2012-10-07, 17:00-19:00 EDT (Local Time) Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology; Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights University of Pennsylvania Dorothy Roberts is author of “Fatal Invention: How Science,…

  • The Color of Change: Voting Rights in the 21st Century and the California Voting Rights Act Harvard Latino Law Review Volume 15 (2012) pages 184-231 Joanna E. Cuevas Ingram University of California, Davis Table of Contents INTRODUCTION I. THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965 AND THE CALIFORNIA VOTING RIGHTS ACT II. U.S. SUPREME COURT DECISIONS…

  • The essential task of this article will be to classify invalid or defective marriages in Maryland into those which are totally void and hence subject to collateral attack and those which are only voidable by appropriate steps of direct attack taken during the joint lifetime of the spouses.

  • Race Treason: The Untold Story of America’s Ban on Polygamy Columbia Journal of Gender and Law Volume 19, Number 2 (2010) pages 287-366 Martha M. Ertman, Carole & Hanan Sibel Research Professor of Law University of Maryland Today’s ban on polygamy grew out of nineteenth century Americans’ view that Mormons committed two types of treason. First,…

  • Blood Flowed Here Before Water Did Trinidad Express 2012-09-14 Jan Westmaas The writer continues his series on Peru and South Africa after visits to these countries in July and August I’ve just read this morning in the daily press a story about Spanish energy company Repsol’s major oil and natural gas find in the Peruvian…

  • French MP Harlem Désir set to become first black man to lead a major European political party The Independent London, England 2012-09-12 John Lichfield The French Euro MP Harlem Désir appears certain next month to become the first black man to lead a major European political party. After weeks of wrangling, Mr Désir, 52, was…

  • Cedric Dover Wasafiri Volume 27, Issue 2 (2012) pages 56-57 DOI: 10.1080/02690055.2012.662322 Cedric Dover was born in Calcutta in 1904. Dover’s mixed ancestry (English father, Indian mother) and his studies in zoology led to a strong interest in ethnic minorities and their marginalisation. After his studies, he joined the Zoological Survey of India as a…

  • Race relations in Angola This is Africa: Africa for a New Generation 2012-09-26 Lula Ahrens ANGOLA, LUANDA | “Angolan women don’t like the Portuguese,” says Amelia (30, office cleaner) in a matter-of-fact manner to This is Africa. If you’re not familiar with Angola you might expect this to be the start of a rant against…