Month: December 2013

  • Mixedblood Messages: Literature, Film, Family, Place University of Oklahoma Press 2001 288 pages 5.25″ x 8.5″ Illustrations: 17 b&w photos Paperback ISBN: 9780806133812 Louis Owens (1948-2002), Professor of English and Native American Studies University of California, Davis In this challenging and often humorous book, Louis Owens examines issues of Indian identity and relationship to the…

  • Science Fiction and Multiraciality: From Octavia Butler to Harry Potter Brooklyn Historical Society Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations Saturday, 2013-12-14, 14:00-17:00 EST (Local Time) How do science fiction narratives investigate questions about identity, racism, and fear? Join us for a fun, interactive presentation and dialogue about mixed-race identity in the Harry Potter franchise, the legacy of…

  • A Study of Tri-Racial Isolates in Eastern United States Human Heredity Volume 6, Number 3, 1956/1957 DOI: 10.1159/000150862 pages 410–412 C. J. Witkop National Institute of Dental Research, National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.A. There are known to exist in the eastern part of…

  • Poll Finds Hope Is Running High for Next Mayor of New York City The New York Times 2013-12-13 Kate Taylor and Dalia Sussman With Bill de Blasio’s inauguration less than a month away, New Yorkers are highly optimistic about his mayoralty — but they remain skeptical that he can achieve major changes on some of…

  • A Show of Justice: Racial ‘Amalgamation’ in Nineteenth Century New Zealand Auckland University Press 1974 400 pages 230 x 150 mm, illustrations Paperback ISBN: 9781869401214 Alan Ward First published in 1974, A Show of Justice remains the essential and definitive text on official policies towards the Māori people in the nineteenth century. Professor Ward shows…

  • Campaign highlights abuse of mixed-race Irish in institutional care The Irish Times Dublin, Ireland 2013-11-18 Marie O’Halloran, Parliamentary Reporter ‘I was in a class all of my own, beneath everybody else along with the dogs and the pigs’ A campaign has been launched for recognition of mixed-race survivors of institutional abuse who believe they suffered…

  • Colloquium: Blinded by Sight: Seeing Race Through the Eyes of the Blind University of Pennsylvania 103 McNeil Building 3718 Locust Walk Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6299 Wednesday, 2014-01-29, 12:00-13:00 EST (Local Time) Osagie K. Obasogie, Professor of Law University of California, Hastings College of the Law Professor Obasogie’s research attempts to bridge the conceptual and methodological gaps between…

  • Race Medicine: Treating Health Inequities from Slavery to the Genomic Age with Prof. Dorothy Roberts Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice Brown University Steven Robert ’62  Campus Center, Petteruti Lounge 75 Waterman Street Providence, Rhode Island 02912 Tuesday, 2013-12-10, 17:30 EST (Local Time) Dorothy E. Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law…

  • In “Blinded by Sight,” Obasogie argues that rather than being visually obvious, both blind and sighted people are socialized to see race in particular ways, even to a point where blind people “see” race.

  • Lenny Kravitz’s Halfway Mark The New York Times 2013-12-06 Amy Chozick, National Political Reporter You grew up between the Upper East Side and Bed-Stuy. Which neighborhood did you feel more comfortable in? Well, after I was in first grade, Monday through Friday was Upper East Side going to P.S. 6, and Friday night through Sunday…