Day: December 27, 2011

  • A White Woman From Kansas The New York Times 2011-06-02 Roger Cohen LONDON—For a long time Barack Obama’s mother was little more than the “white woman from Wichita” mentioned in an early Los Angeles Times profile of the future president. She was the pale Kansan silhouette against whom Obama drew the vivid Kenyan figure of…

  • Obama’s story resonates in racially diverse Brazil Washington Post 2011-03-18 Juan Forero, Staff Writer RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil is a big gumbo of ethnicities, its people proud of their diversity and confident their country is among the most tolerant of nations. But this country—a leading center of black culture—has never had a black president.…

  • My Experience on the Indian-Negro Color Line Indian Country Today 2011-12-27 Julianne Jennings Arizona State University Growing-up on the Indian-Negro color line (I am the daughter of a European mother and a black and Indian father), I lived with mixed signals and coded information by the dominant culture. It had determined that white European culture…

  • Talking Race w/ Social Critic/Legal Scholar Dorothy Roberts Blogtalk Radio Tuesday, 2011-10-11 Michelle McCrary, Host Is That Your Child? 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 ITYC is honored to welcome leading legal scholar and social critic…

  • Between Cultural Lines Collide Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, California Student Magazine 2011-12-07 Chelsey Barmore, Staff Writer For some, finding their identities as biracial or multiracial individuals can bring forth challenges. Someone born with blended ethnicities may experience the frequent question of, “What are you?” Mistaken for one race and not recognized for the other may…