Month: May 2013

  • The future of Hispanic identity Reuters 2013-05-06 Reihan Salam, Policy Analyst In an interview with ABC News this past weekend, Bill Richardson, the former governor of New Mexico and a veteran of the Clinton White House, shared his thoughts on Sen. Ted Cruz, a Republican from Texas who has been gaining prominence as a staunch,…

  • Community Profiles – Melissa Nobles MIT School of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences Great Ideas Change the World 2013-04-21 Leda Zimmerman “All societies periodically have to do soul-searching,” says Melissa Nobles, the Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science. With research that illuminates historic episodes of racial and ethnic injustice, Nobles has developed a…

  • Notes on the Racial Contours of Visual Culture in São Paulo, Brazil Flow Volume 17 (2012-12-18) Reighan Gillam, Postdoctoral Research Fellow Department of Afroamerican and African Studies University of Michigan In this three part series of essays I will consider some of the aspects of race and visuality in Brazil. This article will lay out…

  • ‘Show Boat’ Steams On, Eternally American All Things Considered National Public Radio 2013-05-07 Nina Totenberg, Legal Affairs Correspondent It’s been more than eight decades since Show Boat — the seminal masterpiece of the American musical theater — premiered on a stage in Washington, D.C. Now the sprawling classic is back, in a lush production put…

  • Acclaimed Actress Performs Play on Race, Love The Daily Nexus University of California, Santa Barbara’s Independent, Student Run Newspaper 2013-05-08 Carissa Quiambao William Zhou / Daily Nexus Award-winning actress and playwright Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni performed her one-woman play, “One Drop of Love: A Daughter’s Search for Her Father’s Racial Approval” at the UCSB Multicultural Center…

  • A German doctor [Johann Friedrich Blumenbach] in 1776 divided the human species into five races. Today, nearly two and a half centuries later, these are the same five races into which the U.S. Census divides the American population, making America the only country in the world firmly wedded to an eighteenth-century racial taxonomy. Embedded in…

  • State of Race 2013: Presentation on the Demographics of Race The Aspen Institute Washington, D.C. 2013-04-24 Presenter: Paul Taylor, Executive Vice-President and Director of Social and Demographic Trends Project Pew Research Center

  • The Material Gene: Gender, Race, and Heredity after the Human Genome Project New York University Press May 2013 303 pages Cloth ISBN: 9780814790687 Kelly E. Happe, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies and Women’s Studies University of Georgia In 2000, the National Human Genome Research Institute announced the completion of a “draft” of the human genome,…

  • Counting The People San Francisco Call Sunday, 1890-06-01 page 6, column 7 Source: California Digital Newspaper Collection Some of the Inquires to Be Made by the Census Enumerators in June The eleventh census of the United States will be taken during the month of June. The census enumerators will begin their work on to-morrow, and…

  • Race doesn’t fit in a checkbox Arkansas Times Little Rock, Arkansas 2013-05-02 Gene Lyons Lamentably, the Boston Marathon bombing re-opened some of the most poisonous arguments in American life. Specifically, are the Tsarnaev brothers “white”? It’s a meaningless question. Some hotheads couldn’t wait to declare all Muslims suspect. Certain thinkers on the left (David Sirota,…