Day: April 26, 2012

  • Dorothy Roberts Debunks Race as Biological in “Fatal Invention” Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technologies 2012-01-15 Ytasha L. Womack, Contributor Dorothy Roberts is author of the book Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century (New Press, 2011). She is also the Kirkland & Ellis Professor at Northwestern University…

  • Children of the Vietnam War Smithsonian Magazine June 2009 David Lamb Born overseas to Vietnamese mothers and U.S. servicemen, Amerasians brought hard-won resilience to their lives in America They grew up as the leftovers of an unpopular war, straddling two worlds but belonging to neither. Most never knew their fathers. Many were abandoned by their…

  • Multicultural children’s baseball team founded The Korea Times 2012-04-20 Kim Bo-eun Former baseball player Heo Koo-youn, 61, will found a baseball team for children of interracial families in Korea, Monday. The team will be called Heo Koo-youn Rainbow Little. The initiation ceremony will be held at the National Baseball Center in Goyang, north of Seoul.…

  • Segregation’s Science: Eugenics and Society in Virginia University of Virginia Press November 2008 312 pages 6.125 x 9.25 Cloth ISBN: 9780813927558 Ebook ISBN: 9780813930343 Gregory Michael Dorr, Visiting Assistant Professor in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought Amherst College Blending social, intellectual, legal, medical, gender, and cultural history, Segregation’s Science: Eugenics and Society in Virginia examines…

  • Dispensing of Heart Drug Not ‘Black and White’ University of Alabama Research Magazine 2005-10-10 Chris Bryant Think we’ve advanced too far in Civil Rights issues and medical care to resort to making health judgments based on skin color? Don’t be so sure, says Dr. Gregory Dorr, an assistant professor of history at The University of…

  • Professor’s Bookshelf: Amy Cynthia Tang The Wesleyan Argus Middletown, Connecticut 2012-04-19 Miriam Olenick, Staff Writer Assistant Professor Amy Cynthia Tang, of the American Studies and English departments, specializes in Asian-American and African-American literature—most recently, she has been reading satirical Asian-American plays. Professor Tang sat down with The Argus to discuss her favorite authors, her plans…

  • Multi-ethnic Koreans find help with assimilation through MACK Foundation The Korea Times 2012-04-25 A “typical Korean” probably wouldn’t call Yang Chan-wook a typical Korean, but he wants to be seen that way. The 37-year-old is a multi-ethnic Korean, part Korean from his mother’s side and part African-American from his father’s side. And he’s working towards…

  • Crimes of Passion: The Regulation of Interracial Sex in Washington, 1855-1950 Gonzaga Law Review Volume 47, Issue 2 (Symposium: Race and Criminal Justice in the West) April, 2012 pages 393-428 Jason A. Gillmer, Professor of Law Gonzaga University School of Law Race had not mattered to Harvey Creasman and Caroline Paul. The two had lived together as…