Month: July 2013

  • Mixed Chicks Chat with Professor Rudy Guevarra Mixed Chicks Chat (Founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox, Heidi W. Durrow and Jennifer Frappier Episode: #261: Rudy Guevarra When: Wednesday, 2012-06-20, 21:00Z (17:00 EDT, 14:00 PDT) Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr., Assistant Professor, Asian Pacific American Studies, School of Social Transformation,…

  • On Martin case, Obama shifts from passion to calm Associated Press 2013-07-16 Julie Pace WASHINGTON (AP) – When President Barack Obama first addressed the death of Trayvon Martin last year, he did so passionately, declaring that if he had a son, he would look like the slain 17-year-old. His powerful and personal commentary marked a…

  • The field of human genetics is moving beyond using genomics as a tool for deeper understanding of human disease pathophysiology to the possibility of translating this knowledge for efficient treatment. A particular emphasis is being placed on Individualized medicine’, promising to tailor treatment based on each of our genomes. This ideal vision, however, can cause…

  • New York’s Mixed-Race Riot The New York Times 2013-07-15 Lisa Orr, Professor of English Utica College, Utica, New York When draft rioters set fire to the Colored Orphan Asylum in New York on the night of July 13, 1863, one man in the crowd called out, “If there is a man among you with a…

  • ‘Why I Don’t Want to Talk About Race’ The Good Men Project 2011-01-08 Steve Locke, Associate Professor of Art Education Massachusetts College of Art and Design Tom Matlack asked his friend Steve Locke to write for us about race. He declined. Here’s why. Dear Tom, Thanks so much for asking me to contribute something to…

  • The contributors present a wide range of Black–German encounters, from representations of Black saints in religious medieval art to Black Hessians fighting in the American Revolutionary War, from Cameroonian children being educated in Germany to African American agriculturalists in Germany’s protectorate, Togoland.

  • In Florida, a Death Foretold The New York Times 2012-03-31 Isabel Wilkerson In the mid-1930s, a Yale anthropologist ventured to an unnamed town in the South to explore the feudal divisions of what we commonly call race but what he preferred to describe with the more layered language of caste. When he arrived — white,…

  • We are going to need new terms that reflect numerical reality and social-political reality. Part of that implies thinking about what race and ethnicity mean in general and what specific racial and ethnic, and multiracial and multiethnic, identities mean in particular. At the same time, we’ve got to remember that every racial or ethnic community…

  • The first black president has made it harder to talk about race in America The Washington Post 2012-03-23 Reniqua Allen, Freelance Journalist and Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow New America Foundation A few weeks ago, I was standing outside a posh bar on the Lower East Side of Manhattan with my friends of almost two decades.…

  • He Checked That Box, But How Black is Obama? Politic365: From Your Point of View 2013-07-12 William Reed, Head The Business Exchange Network “If you had a choice of color, which one would you choose, my brother?” – Curtis Mayfield, 1969 In the official U.S. 2010 head count, President Barack Obama provided one answer to…