Month: June 2012

  • Ancestry isn’t the issue in Warren race Concord Monitor Concord, New Hampshire 2012-06-04 Monitor staff The flap over Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren’s claim of Native American ancestry would be a tempest in a teepee if, that is, the Cherokee she claimed to be on some college forms lived in teepees, which they didn’t. The…

  • Germany gets first ever black mayor The Local: Germany’s News in English Berlin, Germany 2012-06-02 John Ehret, a black German who used to work for the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA), Germany’s equivalent of the FBI, is Germany’s first black mayor. The 40-year-old Ehret, whose father was an African-American soldier and mother a native German, took over running…

  • The Myth of Native American Blood The Hyphenated Life The Boston Globe 2012-06-01 Francie Latour The African-American grandmother of a friend of mine once summed up the laws that govern black identity in this country. “If you ever want to know if someone’s black or not,” she would say, “go ask their white neighbor.” That…

  • Ireland and African-America Clinton Institute for American Studies University College Dublin, Ireland 2012-03-09 through 2012-03-11 Report On the 9 – 10 March 2012, The Clinton Institute for American Studies held a two day international conference entitled Ireland and African-America.  Unfortunately, the main keynote speaker Ishmael Reed had to withdraw from the conference on the 6…

  • The Problem of Race in Medicine Philosophy of the Social Sciences Volume 31, Number 1 (March 2001) pages 20-39 DOI: 10.1177/004839310103100102 Michael Root, Professor of Philosophy University of Minnesota The biomedical sciences employ race as a descriptive and analytic category. They use race to describe differences in rates of morbidity and mortality and to explain…

  • Upfront (With Guests Mark Christian and Anna Rothery) Upfront BBC Radio: Merseyside 2012-06-02 Phina Oruche, Host Guests Mark Christian, Professor & Chair of African & African American Studies Lehman College, City University of New York Anna Rothery, Councillor Liverpool City Council, Princes Park Ward Host Phina Oruche discusses the current state of the African diaspora…

  • Portland Chapter Member: Dmae Roberts Asian American Journalists Association 2012-05-28 Doris Truong Dmae Roberts is a two-time Peabody Award-winning radio artist/writer whose work airs regularly on NPR. Her work is often autobiographical and cross-cultural and is informed by her biracial identity. Her Peabody award-winning documentary, “Mei Mei: A Daughter’s Song,” is a harrowing account of…

  • The artists Adrian Piper, Eleanor Antin, Anna Deavere Smith, and Nikki S. Lee have all crossed racial, ethnic, gender, and class boundaries in works that they have conceived and performed. Cherise Smith analyzes their complex engagements with issues of identity through close readings of a significant performance, or series of performances, by each artist.

  • Elizabeth Warren: Box-Checking for Fun and Profit Indican Country Today Media Network 2012-05-16 Steve Russell, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice Indiana University Forrest Carter, Carlos Castaneda, Ward Churchill, Iron Eyes Cody, Jamake HIghwater, Nasdijj, Princess Pale Moon, Andrea and Justine Smith, Mary Thunder, Dhyani Ywahoo. Some of these people have done good work; others have…

  • Race Finished: Book Review American Scientist April-May, 2012 Jan Sapp, Professor of Biology and History York University, Toronto Race?: Debunking a Scientific Myth. Ian Tattersall and Rob DeSalle. xviii + 226 pp. Texas A&M University Press, 2011. Race and the Genetic Revolution: Science, Myth, and Culture. Edited by Sheldon Krimsky and Kathleen Sloan. xiv +…