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Month: November 2013

  • The Souls of Mixed Folk: Race, Politics, and Aesthetics in the New Millennium [Ibrahim Review]

    The Souls of Mixed Folk: Race, Politics, and Aesthetics in the New Millennium [Ibrahim Review] Modern Language Quarterly Volume 74, Number 4, December 2013 page 566 DOI: 10.1215/00267929-2153679 Habiba Ibrahim, Associate Professor of English University of Washington The Souls of Mixed Folk: Race, Politics, and Aesthetics in the New Millennium. By Elam Michele. Stanford, CA:…

  • Cuba’s mixed-race population grows

    Cuba’s mixed-race population grows Fox News Latino 2013-11-08 EFE News Service The number of mixed-race people in Cuba continues to increase as the ranks of those identifying themselves as white or black declines, according to the results of the 2012 Census released Friday. The proportion of mixed-race people grew from 24.9 percent in 2002 to…

  • How Diversity Will Alter Black History

    How Diversity Will Alter Black History The Root 2013-11-06 Lynette Holloway A changing population will help shed more light on America’s multiracial past. (The Root)—This is part 3 of a three-part series. To see the previous stories, here and here. Time was, the social construct of the one-drop rule made United States history either black…

  • The Future of Race in America

    The Future of Race in America The Root 2013-11-05 Jenée Desmond-Harris, Senior Staff Writer Editor’s note: This is part 2 of a three-part series. To read part 1, click here. Will we ever abandon stereotypes? Will “people of color” act as a group? Here are four possible theories about where we are headed as a…

  • The legend of Lone Star Dietz: Redskins namesake, coach — and possible impostor?

    The legend of Lone Star Dietz: Redskins namesake, coach — and possible impostor? The Washington Post 2013-11-06 Richard Leiby Reading, Pa. — Here lies the celebrated Lone Star Dietz — in a donated cemetery plot, aside a back road, under a drooping evergreen. A simple marker, paid for by friends, bears only one word that…

  • The Fluid Symbol of Mixed Race

    The Fluid Symbol of Mixed Race Hypatia Volume 25, Issue 4 (Fall, 2010) pages 875-890 DOI: 10.1111/j.1527-2001.2010.01121.x Naomi Zack, Professor of Philosophy University of Oregon Philosophers have little to lose in making practical proposals. If the proposals are enacted, the power of ideas to change the world is affirmed. If the proposals are rejected, there is…

  • De Blasio Is Elected New York City Mayor

    De Blasio Is Elected New York City Mayor The New York Times 2013-11-05 Michael Barbaro David W. Chen, City Hall Bureau Chief Bill de Blasio hugged his son, Dante, at an election night party on Tuesday. Chang W. Lee/The New York Times Bill de Blasio, who transformed himself from a little-known occupant of an obscure…

  • Mixed race families are becoming more common in advertising

    Mixed race families are becoming more common in advertising The Oklahoma Daily University of Oklahoma Norman, Oklahoma 2013-11-04 The Editorial Board If an artist was assigned to paint a portrait of the average American family 75 years ago, odds are, he or she would paint a family of one race — typically either white parents…

  • 79-173 Freshman Seminar: Barack Obama and the History of Race in America

    79-173 Freshman Seminar: Barack Obama and the History of Race in America Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Department of History 2013-2014 Well before he was elected the forty-fourth President of the United States, Barack Obama challenged Americans to think anew about the history of race in this country. In this course, we will examine President…

  • Trayvon, Postblackness, and the Postrace Dilemma

    Trayvon, Postblackness, and the Postrace Dilemma boundary 2: an international journal of literature and culture Volume 40, Number 3 (Fall 2013) pages 139-161 DOI: 10.1215/01903659-2367072 Richard Purcell, Assistant Professor of English Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania If President Barack Obama crystallizes the intersection of postrace and postblack idealism, nothing has exposed the fraught relationship between…