Month: October 2013

  • Blow to multiple human species idea BBC News 2013-10-17 Melissa Hogenboom, Science Reporter The idea that there were several different human species walking the Earth two million years ago has been dealt a blow. Instead, scientists say early human fossils found in Africa and Eurasia may have been part of the same species. Writing in…

  • An Essentially American Narrative The New York Times 2013-10-11 Nelson George A Discussion of Steve McQueen’s Film ‘12 Years a Slave’ Amid comic book epics, bromantic comedies and sequels of sequels, films about America’s tortured racial history have recently emerged as a surprisingly lucrative Hollywood staple. In the last two years, “The Help,” “Lincoln,””Django Unchained,””42”…

  • Mary Seacole: The Charismatic Black Nurse Who Became a Heroine of the Crimea [new edition] Constable & Robinson 2006-11-16 288 pages Paperback ISBN: 9781845294977 Jane Robinson The ‘Greatest Black Briton in History’ triumphed over the Crimea and Victorian England. She became an independent ‘doctress’ combining the herbal remedies of her African ancestry with sound surgical…

  • About 15% of all new marriages in the United States in 2010 were between spouses of a different race or ethnicity from one another, more than double the share in 1980 (6.7%). Among all newlyweds in 2010, 9% of whites, 17% of blacks, 26% of Hispanics and 28% of Asians married out. Looking at all…

  • Playwright Sarah Rutherford: ‘Middle-class, mixed-race families are invisible on our stages’ What’s on Stage London 2013-10-10 Editorial Staff As her new play Adult Supervision premieres at the Park Theatre, playwright Sarah Rutherford discusses multiculturalism in modern Britain What’s Adult Supervision about? It’s set in 2008 and it’s about a white ex-lawyer, Natasha, who’s adopted two…

  • Who stole all the black women from Britain? Black Girl Dancing at Lughnasa 2013-10-17 Emma Dabiri, Teaching Fellow Africa Department, School of African and Oriental Studies, London Visual Sociology Ph.D. Researcher, Goldsmiths University of London …Here in the UK, the  visibility of black women in representations of mainstream Black British culture is such that you…

  • Rethinking race, racism, identity and ideology in Latin America Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 36,  Issue 10, 2013 (Special Issue: Rethinking Race, Racism, Identity, and Ideology in Latin America) pages 1485-1489 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2013.808357 Tanya Golash-Boza, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Merced Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Professor of Sociology Duke University, Durham, North Carolina This special issue…

  • The Impact of Internet Publishing and Online Communications on Mixed-Race Discourses The Asian American Literary Review Special Issue on Mixed Race, Volume 4, Issue 2 (Fall 2013) Mixed Race is an Inbox: pages 127-136 Steven F. Riley, Creator MixedRaceStudies.org: Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience Glenn C. Robinson, Creator MixedAmericanLife.us: Mixed Culture | Mixed…

  • Special Issue on Mixed Race [The Asian American Literary Review] The Asian American Literary Review 2013-08-06 AALR’s special issue on mixed race, coming in Fall 2013, is not simply a reexamination of race or a survey of mixed voices, important as both are. We envision our role as that of provocateur–inspiring new conversations and cross-pollinations,…

  • Booker, Winning Rocky Senate Bid, Gets a Job to Fit His Profile The New York Times 2013-0-16 Kate Zernike Mayor Cory A. Booker of Newark easily won New Jersey’s special Senate election on Wednesday, finally rising to an office that measures up to his national profile. He will arrive in Washington already one of the…