Category: Media Archive

  • 17 Of The Most Powerful Things Latinos Said In 2015 That Got Us Thinking The Huffington Post 2015-12-22 Carolina Moreno, Latino Voices Editor Diversity, immigration, feminism and more — these celebrities covered it all. Latinos gave us plenty to think about in 2015, and it’s time to revisit some of the best mic drop moments…

  • At UNLV, a north-south divide over rebel mascot — but it’s not what you think The Los Angeles Times 2015-12-02 Nigel Duara, Contact Reporter The University of Nevada Las Vegas mascot, Hey Reb! (exclamation mark included), warms up the crowd before a basketball game. (Isaac Brekken / Associated Press) He is all bushy mustache and…

  • UNLV President Len Jessup says keep Rebel nickname; research concludes no roots in Confederacy U.S. News & World Report 2015-11-30 Michelle Rindels, Politics Reporter The Associated Press FILE – In this Feb. 1, 2014, file photo, UNLV mascot Hey Reb warms up the crowd before an NCAA college basketball game in Las Vegas. UNLV President…

  • Philosophy of race meets population genetics Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Volume 52, August 2015 pages 46–55 Genomics and Philosophy of Race DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2015.04.003 Quayshawn Spencer, Assistant Professor of Philosophy University of Pennsylvania Highlights I discuss the recent human population-genetic research…

  • A Radical Solution to the Race Problem Philosophy of Science Volume 81, Number 5 (December 2014) pages 1025-1038 DOI: 10.1086/677694 Quayshawn Spencer, Assistant Professor of Philosophy University of Pennsylvania It has become customary among philosophers and biologists to claim that folk racial classification has no biological basis. This paper attempts to debunk that view. In…

  • What ‘biological racial realism’ should mean Philosophical Studies June 2012, Volume 159, Issue 2 pages 181-204 DOI: 10.1007/s11098-011-9697-2 Quayshawn Spencer, Assistant Professor of Philosophy University of Pennsylvania A curious ambiguity has arisen in the race debate in recent years. That ambiguity is what is actually meant by ‘biological racial realism’. Some philosophers mean that ‘race…

  • José Maurício Nunes Garcia Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Last modified: 2015-12-08 José Maurício Nunes Garcia (September 20, 1767 – April 18, 1830) was a Brazilian classical composer, one of the greatest exponents of Classicism in the Americas. Born in Rio de Janeiro, son of mulattos, Nunes Garcia lost his father at an early age, and…

  • Going Silent: Augusta Chiwy (B. 1921) The Lives They Lived (2015) The New York Times Magazine 2015-12-16 Ruth Padawer, Adjunct Professor of Journalism Columbia University, New York, New York Augusta Chiwy as a nursing student, front row center, at St. Elisabeth Hospital in Leuven, Belgium, in 1943. Credit: Photograph from Martin King She saw so…

  • Catherine Bliss Examines Race and Science in the Post-Genomic World Science of Caring: A Publication of the UCSF School of Nursing University of California, San Francisco December 2015 Diana Austin Catherine Bliss (photo by Elisabeth Fall) When Catherine Bliss, assistant professor in the UC San Francisco School of Nursing Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences,…

  • Vienna to London: Black to Mixed-Race Afropean: Adventures in Afro Europe 2015-03-19 Annina Chirade I was born in Vienna, a place which has historically been a frontier between Eastern and Western Europe. I was primarily brought up in London, a city whose population reflects the reaches of the British Empire. It is also the place…