Month: October 2012

  • Against Black-Face Roles in German Theatre Avaaz: Community Petitions 2012-10-14 Gyavira Lasana Last January Schlosspark Theatre in Berlin opened “I’m Not Rappaport” by Herb Gardner. The production featured a white actor in black-face in the role of Midge Carter, portrayed in New York by Ossie Davis. When concerned theatre professionals complained on the website of…

  • Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Whiteness: A Revolution of Identity Politics in America Columbia Journal of Race and Law Volume 2, Issue 1 (2012) pages 149-166 Andrés Acebo An enduring motif in American political history reflects the nation’s slow progression towards inclusion of a once disenfranchised populace. In the annals of its jurisprudence, the…

  • Ocular Anthropomorphisms: Eugenics and Primatology at the Threshold of the “Almost Human” Social Text Volume 30, Number 3 112 pages 97-121 DOI: 10.1215/01642472-1597350 Megan H. Glick, Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Africana Studies Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania From the moment Charles Darwin proposed Africa as the site of human origins, scientists and…

  • The Race to Progress: Census Taking and Nation Making in Brazil (1870–1920) Hispanic American Historical Review Volume 89, Number 3 (2009) pages 435-470 DOI: 10.1215/00182168-2009-002 Mara Loveman, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Wisconsin, Madison From the mid-nineteenth century, central statistics agencies contributed to nation-state building through their dual mission of producing statistical description and…

  • The Importance of Mestizos and Mulatos as Bilingual Intermediaries in Sixteenth-Century New Spain Ethnohistory Volume 59, Number 4 (2012) pages 713-738 DOI: 10.1215/00141801-1642725 Robert C. Schwaller, Assistant Professor of History University of Kansas One of the most interesting aspects of sixteenth-century Mexico is the predominance of native languages, Nahuatl in particular, among all members of…

  • Roles of a Lifetime | Halle Berry The New York Times Magazine 2012-10-20 Joyce Maynard It’s 10 in the morning, and already Halle Berry is being chased, though a better word for what’s going on might be “hunted.” Considering this, the Oscar-winning actress — one of the stars of the film “Cloud Atlas” — makes…

  • Biracial identity: trying to fit in The Daily Tar Heel University of North Carolina 2012-10-22 Averi Harper, Columnist You’re Hispanic, right? No? Well, are you Middle Eastern? No? Then what are you? Oh, that’s so interesting! The above is just a sample of the prodding questions that sometimes come with biracial or multiracial identity. Biracial…

  • Glenn Robinson—Dedicated to Erasing Hate & Mixing Cultures Mixed Race Radio Wednesday, 2012-10-24, 16:00Z (12:00 EDT, 09:00 PDT, 17:00 BST) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host Glenn Robinson, Creator/Owner Community Village Activist Glenn Robinson is an Irish, German, Dutch, English & Austrian American married to a Spanish & Indigenous Mexican American. They have two children and encourage…

  • Letter, W. A. Plecker to A. T. Shields. 9 May 1925. Typescript. Commonwealth of Virginia, Bureau of Vital Statistics Richmond, Virginia 1925-05-09 Source: Rockbridge County (Va.) Clerk’s Correspondence [Walter A. Plecker to A.T. Shields], 1912-1943. Local Government Records Collection, Rockbridge County Court Records. The Library of Virginia. 10-0477-003. In a letter to A.T. Shields, Walter…

  • The Choice The New Yorker 2012-10-22 The Editors The morning was cold and the sky was bright. Aretha Franklin wore a large and interesting hat. Yo-Yo Ma urged his frozen fingers to play the cello, and the Reverend Joseph E. Lowery, a civil-rights comrade of Martin Luther King, Jr.,’s, read a benediction that began with…