Month: September 2012

  • Can Science Explain the Concept of Race? PsycCRITIQUES Volume 57, Release 16 (2012-04-18) Article 4 5 pages Lundy Braun, Royce Family Professor in Teaching Excellence and Professor of Medical Science and Africana Studies Brown University Amed Logrono, Senior Human Biology Major Brown University A review of Race and the Genetic Revolution: Science, Myth, and Culture…

  • Cameron reshuffle brings critic of legal aid cuts into ministry of justice The Guardian 2012-09-05 Owen Bowcott, Legal Affairs Correspondent New Conservative minister Helen Grant criticised coalition policy on Guardian website last year One of the new ministerial appointees to the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has previously been highly critical of the government’s key policy…

  • Alexander Saxton, Historian and Novelist, Dies at 93 The New York Times 2012-09-01 Paul Vitello Alexander Saxton, who would go on to become a prominent historian of race in America, summed himself up in a blurb on the dust jacket of his first novel, “Grand Crossing,” published when he was 24. “At various times,” he…

  • Helen Grant first black female minister in the UK Afro-Europe International Blog 2012-09-09 Helen Grant MP has been made a Minister in David Cameron’s Ministerial reshuffle this September. She is now the first female black cabinet Minister in the UK. Grant, 50, was born in London to an English mother and Nigerian father, but grew…

  • Mulattos of St. Domingo General Advertiser Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Wednesday, 1792-03-14 (Number 455) Souce: Professor of History John Garrigus (University of Texas, Arlington) Are the motley breed of landholders, gentlemen adventurers, parsimonious merchants, factors, clerks, managers, and plantation-overseers from Europe. The progenitors of this yellow tribe were generally persons who came out from France and other…

  • Afro-Latino/a Identities: Challenges, History, and Perspectives Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal Volume 9, Issue 1 (2012-04-20) Article 5 Sobeira Latorre, Assistant Professor of Spanish Southern Connecticut State University Miriam Jiménez Román and Juan Flores, editors, The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010), 584 pp. The Afro-Latin@…

  • Obama’s race still has bearing on media coverage The Louisiana Weekly 2012-09-04 Nadra Kareem Nittle, Contributing Writer (Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from the Maynard Institute) – Long before a little-known Illinois politician ran for president, the mainstream media focused on his race. When he flourished as a presidential candidate four years ago,…

  • Now, I have always believed that what is now widely considered one of slavery’s worst legacies—the Southern “one-drop” rule that indicted anyone with black blood as a nigger and cleaved American society into black and white with a single stroke—was also slavery’s only upside. Of course I deplore the motive behind the law, which was…

  • Race Mixture in Nineteenth-Century U.S. and Spanish American Fictions: Gender, Culture, and Nation Building (review) The Americas Volume 62, Number 2, October 2005 pages 280-281 DOI: 10.1353/tam.2005.0157 Nancy E. Castro University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Race Mixture in Nineteenth-Century U.S. and Spanish American Fictions: Gender, Culture, and Nation Building. By Debra J. Rosenthal. Chapel Hill: University…

  • I’m Chocolate, You’re Vanilla: Raising Healthy Black and Biracial Children in a Race-Conscious World Jossey-Bass May 2000 304 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-7879-5234-1 Marguerite A. Wright A child’s concept of race is quite different from that of an adult. Young children perceive skin color as magical—even changeable—and unlike adults, are incapable of understanding adult predjudices surrounding…