Day: October 13, 2013

  • Contesting Identities Through Walker Dance: Mestizo Performance in the Southern Andes of Peru Repercussions: a journal dedicated to all areas of music studies University of California, Berkeley Fall 1994, Volume 3, No. 2 pages 50-80 Zoila Mendoza-Walker This article analyzes an event in the city of Cusco, Peru that reverberated throughout the entire region during…

  • Pelo Malo (Bad Hair) Sudaca Films 2013 Venezuela 93 minutes color Written and Directed by Mariana Rondón Produced by Marité Ugás Starring Samuel Lange as Junior Samantha Castillo as Marta Junior is nine years old and has “bad hair.” He wants to have it straightened for his yearbook picture, like a fashionable pop singer. This…

  • Artists, Educators Laud Black Heritage In Dominican Republic The Associated Press 2013-10-11 Ezequiel Abiú López, Foreign Correspondent The Associated Press SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — In a school auditorium filled with laughing students, actresses Luz Bautista Matos and Clara Morel threw themselves into acting out a fairy tale complete with a princess, a hero…

  • Despite Options on Census, Many to Check ‘Black’ Only The New York Times 2000-02-12 Diana Jean Schemo This year’s new, racially inclusive census might have seemed tailor made for Michael Gelobter. The son of a white Jewish father and an African-Bermudan mother, Mr. Gelobter lives in Harlem with his wife, Sharron Williams, a black woman…

  • A Fresh Face On Race The Hartford Courant Hartford, Connecticut 2001-03-13 Mike Swift, Courant Staff Writer The U.S. Census Bureau’s New Approach And The Latest Population Figures Could Mark ‘The Beginning Of The End Of Racial Classification In America.’ The federal government Monday pegged the number of Americans who are of multiple races at 6.8…

  • Race and ancestry in biomedical research: exploring the challenges Genome Medicine 2009 Volume 1, Number 8 (2009-01-21) DOI: 10.1186/gm8 Timothy Caulfield Faculty of Law and School of Public Health Research, Health Law Institute University of Alberta Stephanie M Fullerton Department of Medical History and Ethics and Department of Genome Sciences University of Washington School of…

  • Prematurity and Low Birth Weight as Potential Mediators of Higher Stillbirth Risk in Mixed Black/White Race Couples Journal of Women’s Health Volume 19, Issue 4 (2010-04-26) pages 767–773. DOI:  10.1089/jwh.2009.1561 Katherine J. Gold, M.D., M.S.W., M.S. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Sonya M. DeMonner, M.P.H. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs…

  • Racial Passing in James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and Philip Roth’s The Human Stain A Vertentes Universidade Federal de São João del Rei Volume 19, Number 2 13 pages Maria Luiza Cardoso de Aguiar Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais The so-called racial passing is defined, mainly, as a phenomenon through which…