Month: January 2014

  • A Tie That Binds Across Cultures The New York Times 2014-01-10 Booming’s “Making It Last” column profiles baby boomer couples who have been together 25 years or more. Bob and Chiyoko Bermant met in 1973 as graduate students at the University of Kansas. Bob was majoring in psychology, and Chiyoko, who is Japanese, was studying…

  • Gov’t to overhaul services for multicultural families Yonhap News Agency Seoul, South Korea 2014-01-15 Shim Sun-ah SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Yonhap) — The government plans to streamline its support system for multicultural families to help them integrate into society, officials said Wednesday. The move comes as some existing services, including Korean-language education, have been redundant or…

  • Rite Of “Passing” CBS News 2007-10-28 Russ Mitchell For 23 years Bliss Broyard was white, living in tony Greenwich, Conn., isolated from people of color and influenced by the racial attitudes of her surroundings, reports CBS News’ Russ Mitchell. Asked if she used to tell black jokes, Broyard said: “I did, in high school and…

  • Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the Brazilian Novelist by G. Reginald Daniel (review) Hispanic Review Volume 82, Number 1, Winter 2014 pages 116-119 DOI: 10.1353/hir.2014.0008 Mércia Santana Flannery, Lecturer of Portuguese Romance Languages Department University of Pennsylvania G. Reginald Daniel, Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the Brazilian Novelist, 336 pages, hardcover ISBN: 978-0-271-05246-5.…

  • UNC professor studies race, drug abuse The Daily Tar Heel University of North Carolina 2014-01-13 Erin Davis Growing up in rural North Carolina, Trenette Clark watched as some loved ones went to jail at young ages and others lost their children to the Child Welfare System. She came to wonder why some drug users’ behavior…

  • Concubinage Law Reaches Negro Only Lafayette Adviser Lafayette, Louisiana Friday, 1910-04-29 page 1, columns 3-4 Source: Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (Library of Congress) By Vote of 3 to 2 Supreme Court Upholds Decision of the Lower Court. LOUISIANA STATUTE HELD TO BE OF LIMITED SCOPE. Mulattoes, Quadroons and Octaroons Not  included—Opinion Read by Justice…

  • Challenging a Pan-African Identity: The Autobiographical Writings of Maya Angelou, Barack Obama, and Caryl Phillips Journal of American Studies Volume 45, Issue 3 (August 2011) pages 483-502 DOI: 10.1017/S0021875810002410 Gregory D. Smithers, Visiting Associate Professor of History Virginia Commonwealth University In her 1986 book All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes, Maya Angelou reflected on the…

  • The Black Irish Onscreen: Representing Black and Mixed-Race Identities on Irish Film and Television [Galvin Review] Film Ireland Temple Bar, Dublin, Ireland 2014-01-13 Steven Galvin, Editor Dr Zélie Asava introduces her book The Black Irish Onscreen: Representing Black and Mixed-Race Identities on Irish Film and Television, a critical investigation of race in contemporary Irish visual…

  • A Daughter Discovers Branches of the Family Tree Pruned by Her Father The New York Times 2007-11-07 Mimi Read NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 6 — In a white-box living room in an apartment on lower St. Charles Avenue here, the dining table was set for a family party: plastic bowls of chips, dip and salsa; a…

  • The Bots Are Taking Over The New York Times Magazine 2013-12-20 Julie Bosman Photographs by Rebecca Smeyne Mikaiah and Anaiah Lei, the brothers from Los Angeles who make up the band the Bots, have been writing and playing rock songs together for seven years. Now 20 and 17, they are on the cusp of stardom…