Day: April 30, 2013

  • Sheila K. Johnson on Yokohama Yankee Los Angeles Review of Books 2013-03-13 Sheila K. Johnson, Anthropologist, Gerontologist, and Freelance Writer Oh, To Be Japanese! MANY FOREIGNERS have fallen in love with Japan — its physical beauty, its culture, its people. Most of these foreigners have been men, and some have married Japanese women or taken…

  • Hot Colors: Race, Sex, and Love Harvard Magazine March-April 2003 Craig Lambert Tiger Woods, possibly the world’s best-known athlete, resists being called a “black” golfer. He coined the term “Cablinasian” (Caucasian, black, Indian, Asian) to identify his race, and used it on the Oprah Winfrey television show after winning the 1997 Masters tournament. Although Woods’s…

  • In a first, black voter turnout rate passes whites Associated Press 2013-04-29 Hope Yen WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s blacks voted at a higher rate than other minority groups in 2012 and by most measures surpassed the white turnout for the first time, reflecting a deeply polarized presidential election in which blacks strongly supported Barack Obama…

  • Black pols stymied in Obama era Politico 2013-04-29 Jonathan Martin, Senior Political Reporter More than five years after Barack Obama won the Iowa caucuses and demolished the notion that white voters wouldn’t support a black presidential candidate, progress for other African-American politicians remains elusive. Even as the country elected and reelected Obama, making it seem…