Month: July 2013

  • “In 2004, I discovered my biological dad was African-American,” said Mr. Lee, who had been raised in a Korean family in Germany. “It had basically been a one-night stand. He ran away when he learned she was pregnant. She doesn’t even remember his name anymore.”

  • Obama bares his ‘blackness’ in Trayvon speech The Buffalo News 2013-07-20 Sonya Ross The Associated Press In a move unparalleled among presidents, Barack Obama reflects on being black in America. WASHINGTON – Something in President Obama’s voice caught Gregory C. Ellison’s ear. It was fleeting, subtle, and easy to miss — unless you’re a black…

  • Discussing Trayvon Martin, Obama Embraces his Blackness The American Prospect 2013-07-19 Jamelle Bouie, Staff Writer On Obama’s remarks this afternoon. When President Obama issued a pro forma statement following last week’s verdict in the Zimmerman trial, there was some disappointment—“Why didn’t he say more?” It only takes a small step back to see the answer;…

  • Fracture Risk Assessment without Race/Ethnicity Information The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism Volume 97, Number 10 (2012-10-01) pages 3593-3602 DOI: 10.1210/jc.2012-1997 Shinya Ishii Department of Geriatric Medicine (S.I.) Graduate School of Medicine University of Tokyo Gail A. Greendale David Geffen School of Medicine University of California, Los Angeles Jane A. Caule Graduate School of…

  • Crossed Lines in the Racialization Process: Race as a Border Concept Research in Phenomenology Volume 42, Issue 2 (2012) pages 206-228 DOI: 10.1163/156916412X651201 Robert Bernasconi, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy and African American Studies Pennsylvania State University The phenomenological approach to racialization needs to be supplemented by a hermeneutics that examines the history of…

  • Voice of the voiceless? Multiethnic student voices in critical approaches to race, pedagogy, literacy and agency Linguistics and Education Volume 24, Issue 3, September 2013 pages 348–360 DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2013.03.005 Benji Chang, Adjunct Assistant Professor and Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Curriculum & Teaching Teachers College, Columbia University, New York In this article, the author utilizes critical…

  • Burton Mixed Heritage Oral Hers/His story project East Staffordshire Rights & Equality Council (ESREC) July 2012 39 pages The mixed heritage community is the fastest growing ethnic minority group in the UK and is predicted to be the largest minority ethnic group by 2020.The ethnicity category Mixed was first introduced in the 2001 UK Census,…

  • Whiteness is the unspoken, invisible default setting of American life. We frame our conversations about race in terms of how white people see and what they think they see. We imagine that nonwhite Americans want to be more like white Americans. We imagine that to be American is to be white. When racial minorities complain…

  • ‘Belle’ breaks through the aristocratic color barrier USA Today 2013-07-21 Bryan Alexander British actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw used to envy her classmates from the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London as they moved on to perform in lavish English period dramas. But as an actress of color, she found it difficult to land such…

  • Trayvon Martin, Race and Anthropology Anthropology News American Anthropological Association 2013-07-19 Leith Mullings, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology City University of New York (and President of the American Anthropological Association) On February 26, 2012, 28-year-old George Zimmerman shot and killed an unarmed 17-year-old African American teenager who, after buying Skittles and iced tea at the local…