Category: Media Archive

  • Complexity of Race In America C-SPAN Video Library Program ID: 305676-1 First Aired: 2012-06-03 New York Historical Society New York, New York 2012-04-12 Brent Staples, Host New York Times Daniel J. Sharfstein, Professor of Law Vanderbilt University Daniel Sharfstein, author of The Invisible Line [:Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White],…

  • Using Brazil’s Racial Continuum to Examine the Short-Term Effects of Affirmative Action in Higher Education The Journal of Human Resources Volume 47, Number 3 (Summer 2012) pages 754-784 Andrew M. Francis, Assistant Professor of Economics Emory University Maria Tannuri-Pianto, Professor of Economics University of Brasilia In 2004, the University of Brasilia established racial quotas. We…

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  • MixedRaceStudies.org Book Give-Away a Huge Success MixedRaceStudies.org 2012-06-19 Steven F. Riley Photograph by Laura Kina Thanks to the help of Fanshen Cox, Heidi Durrow, Jennifer Frappier, Sonia Kang and the rest of the Mixed Roots Film and Litterary Festival crew, my book give-away was a huge success!  I hope all of the winners will read and…

  • Terrance Hayes and Natasha Trethewey: Contemporary Black Chroniclers of the Imagined South The Southern Literary Journal Volume 44, Number 2, Spring 2012 pages 122-135 DOI: 10.1353/slj.2012.0009 William M. Ramsey, Professor of English Francis Marion University, Florence, South Carolina “I Don’t Hate the South.” — book title by Houston Baker, Jr. “The past is never dead.…

  • Slavery, Race, and Reunion: The NY Times White Washes the Rape of Michelle Obama’s Ancestors (Again) We Are Respectable Negroes 2012-06-18 Chauncey DeVega Why would any person honor rapist’s blood? In an effort to write the Obamas, who are de facto American royalty, back into a larger post-racial narrative that ostensibly makes some white folks…

  • Understanding the Racial Identity Development of Multiracial Young Adults through their Family, Social and Environmental Experiences Catholic University of America 2012 184 pages Lisa Sechrest-Ehrhardt A DISSERTATION Submitted to the faculty of the National Catholic School of Social Service of The Catholic University of America In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree Doctor…

  • How Obama became black The Washington Post 2011-06-14 David Maraniss He was too dark in Indonesia. A hapa child — half and half — in Hawaii. Multicultural in Los Angeles. An “Invisible Man” in New York. And finally, Barack Obama was black on the South Side of Chicago. This journey of racial self-discovery and reinvention…

  • American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White, and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama HarperCollins 2012-06-19 400 pages Trimsize: 6 x 9 Hardback ISBN: 9780061999864; ISBN10: 0061999865 Rachel L. Swarns, Correspondent New York Times A remarkable history of First Lady Michelle Obama’s mixed ancestry, American Tapestry by Rachel L. Swarns is nothing less than a…

  • Meet Your Cousin, the First Lady: A Family Story, Long Hidden The New York Times 2012-06-16 Rachel L. Swarns This article is adapted from “American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama” by Rachel L. Swarns, to be published by Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, on Tuesday. REX,…