Month: November 2012

  • Social Washington: the “Colored” Aristocracy Edwardian Promenade 2009-01-08 Evangeline Holland From the end of Reconstruction until the Great War, Washington was the center of the black aristocracy. Nowhere else in the United States possessed such a concentration of “old families,” not merely from the District and nearby Maryland and Virginia, but from throughout the country,…

  • Heterogeneity of risk within racial groups, a challenge for public health programs Preventive Medicine Volume 55, Issue 5, November 2012 Pages 405–408 DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2012.08.022 Sean A. Valles, Assistant Professor Lyman Briggs College, Michigan State University Targeting high-risk populations for public health interventions is a classic tool of public health promotion programs. This practice becomes thornier…

  • Race Under the Microscope: Biological Misunderstandings of Race Center for Genetics and Society 2012-05-24 Despite the fact that advances in genetics undermine the notion that discrete and distinct racial groups exist at the biological level, the science of genetics is inadvertently reinforcing the myth that race is a biological, rather than a social, category. In…

  • Supreme Court to review key section of Voting Rights Act The Washington Post 2012-11-09 Robert Barnes Aaron C. Davis (contributing) The Supreme Court said Friday it will review a key provision of the Voting Rights Act that has been the federal government’s most forceful tool in protecting minority rights at the polls. The decision ensures…

  • Justices to Revisit Voting Act in View of a Changing South The New York Times 2012-11-09 Adam Liptak, Supreme Court Correspondent WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it would take a fresh look at the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the signature legacies of the civil rights…

  • Winton Triangle history in Chicago! Chowan Discovery Group 2012-11-06 Marvin Jones In Chicago, the CDG got the opportunity to introduce our history to a national audience of academics and students at the Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at DePaul University in Chicago. Writer Lars Adams, of the Chowanoke Descendants website, presented the history of the…

  • Exhibition brings black Germans’ stories to light DW 2012-11-09 Helen Whittle An exhibit gives voice to the histories of Africans, African-Americans and Afro-Germans from the past 300 years of German history. It presents a differentiated perspective on the lives and histories of blacks in Germany. Asked what comes to mind when they think about Germany,…

  • Alien Citizen: An Earth Odyssey [solo show] USA Projects 2012 Elizabeth Liang Los Angeles Over the last two years, I’ve developed Alien Citizen (originally titled Unpacked) at the David Henry Hwang Writers Institute, Terrie Silverman’s “Start to Finish Solo-Show” Master Class, and on my own.  I performed segments of it at the “5,000 Women” Festival…

  • Heredity in Color Hawke’s Bay Herald New Zealand Volume XXIII, Issue 7956 1888-01-21 Page 2 Source: Papers Past, National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa If a white man marries a negro, their children, boys and girls alike, are all mulattos. Lot us make to ourselves no allusions or mistakes upon this…

  • Sambo is a term for a person with African heritage and, in some countries, also mixed with Native American heritage (see zambo)…. Source: Wikipedia.