Day: November 11, 2012

  • A Spectrum From Slaves to Saints (Art Review) The New York Times 2012-11-08 Holland Carter, Staff Art Critic “The Three Mulattoes of Esmereldas” (1599) is one of the works in “Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe,” at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. More Photos ‘African Presence in Renaissance Europe,’ at Walters Museum BALTIMORE…

  • MixedRaceStudies.org Reaches 5,000 Posts MixedRaceStudies.org 2012-11-11 Steven F. Riley MixedRaceStudies.org, called by a preeminent scholar, “the most comprehensive and objective clearinghouse for scholarly publications related to critical mixed-race theory,” and the recipient of other praise has reached its 5,000th post! Created in May 2009 by Steven F. Riley, this free online resource consists of links…

  • 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…