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Month: March 2013

  • Demographic Demagoguery: Gregory Rodriguez’s views on race and the census just don’t add up

    Demographic Demagoguery: Gregory Rodriguez’s views on race and the census just don’t add up MixedRaceStudies.org 2011-04-08 Steven F. Riley Gregory Rodriguez’s editorial titled “President Obama: Black and more so” or “President Obama: At odds with clear demographic trends toward multiracial pride” in the April 4, 2011 edition of the Los Angeles Times reveals the destructive hubris…

  • President Obama: Black and more so

    President Obama: Black and more so Los Angeles Times 2011-04-04 Gregory Rodriguez By checking ‘black’ as his race on the census form, President Obama is at odds with clear demographic trends toward multiracial pride. The number of Americans identifying as both white and black jumped 134% in 10 years. It could have been a historic…

  • Who’s Black, Who’s Not, and Who Cares?

    Who’s Black, Who’s Not, and Who Cares? Uptown Magazine 2011-11-02 Yaba Blay, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania “What are you?” It’s a question I have never been asked. I am Black. Period. The color of my skin is reflective of my Ghanaian ancestry and by its dark tone, everyone I encounter…

  • Integration or Fragmentation? Racial Diversity and the American Future

    Integration or Fragmentation? Racial Diversity and the American Future Demography Published online: 2013-02-26 DOI: 10.1007/s13524-013-0197-1 Daniel T. Lichter, Professor of Policy Analysis and Management and Sociology Cornell University Over the next generation or two, America’s older, largely white population will increasingly be replaced by today’s disproportionately poor minority children. All future growth will come from…

  • Black and Blue: The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism by John Hoberman [Matt Wood Review]

    Black and Blue: The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism by John Hoberman [Matt Wood Review] TriQuarterly: a journal of writing, art, and cultural inquiry from Northwestern University 2013-02-04 Matt Wood, Book Review Editor We’ve heard the statistics on black and white mortality rates in the United States. Black infants are up to three times…

  • Biracial versus black: Thought leaders weigh in on the meaning of President Obama’s biracial heritage

    “If I’m lucky enough to have children, I won’t tell them that Barack Obama was America’s first black president.”

  • Chats: Is Obama Black, Bi-racial, or Post-racial?

    As the son of a black Kenyan and a white American, President Obama is biracial. As a symbol of our times, he’s also called post-racial. On his census form, he classifies himself as black. Whatever he is, the categories obsess many Americans. So in advance of Randall Kennedy’s visit to Zócalo, we put the question…

  • Asked to Declare His Race, Obama Checks ‘Black’

    Asked to Declare His Race, Obama Checks ‘Black’ The New York Times 2010-04-02 Sam Roberts Peter Baker It is official: Barack Obama is the nation’s first black president. A White House spokesman confirmed that Mr. Obama, the son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas, checked African-American on the 2010…

  • A Unique Slant of Light: The Bicentennial History of Art in Louisiana

    A Unique Slant of Light: The Bicentennial History of Art in Louisiana University Press of Mississippi 2012-09-20 450 pages 9 1/2 x 11 7/8 inches, 400+ color illustrations, foreword, introduction, bibliography, index of artists Cloth ISBN: 978-1-61703-690-3   Edited By: Michael Sartisky, President Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities J. Richard Gruber, Director Emeritus Ogden Museum…

  • Black and Blue: The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism

    “Black & Blue” is the first systematic description of how American doctors think about racial differences and how this kind of thinking affects the treatment of their black patients.