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Month: February 2014

  • A Breakdown & Discussion of Upcoming Events with Our Very Own, Steve Riley

    A Breakdown & Discussion of Upcoming Events with Our Very Own, Steve Riley Mixed Race Radio Blog Talk Radio 2014-02-12, 17:00Z (12:00 EDT) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host On Wednesday’s episode of Mixed Race Radio, Steve Riley (mixedracestudies. org) will join me to discuss some upcoming events and performances occurring all over the world. Whether you…

  • Sex Tourism in Bahia: Ambiguous Entanglements

    How sexism, racism, and socio-economic inequality interact in the Brazilian sex industry

  • Growing up in what he called the “pigmentocracy” of the colonial West Indies had a profound effect on Hall’s childhood and outlook. His mother forbade him from inviting black school friends home, even though to white eyes he was black himself.

    Stuart McPhail Hall was born on February 3 1932 in Kingston, Jamaica, into a middle class family which subscribed to what he called “the colonial romance”. His father, Herman, was the first non-white person to hold a senior position – chief accountant – with United Fruit in Jamaica. Both his parents had non-African components in…

  • Stuart Hall obituary

    Stuart Hall obituary The Guardian 2014-02-10 David Morley and Bill Schwarz Influential cultural theorist, campaigner and founding editor of the New Left Review When the writer and academic Richard Hoggart founded the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham University in 1964, he invited Stuart Hall, who has died aged 82, to join him as…

  • Meaning of mixed race

    Meaning of mixed race Macalester College News Saint Paul, Minnesota 2013-02-07 Americans are increasingly thinking about their racial identities, says American studies professor Jane Rhodes, with the whole question of mixed race identities getting more attention. “Academia is just starting to catch up with that conversation,” she says, which is one reason why her department…

  • San Francisco Lithographer: African American Artist Grafton Tyler Brown

    Grafton Tyler Brown—whose heritage was likely one-eighth African American—finessed his way through San Francisco society by passing for white. Working in an environment hostile to African American achievement, Brown became a successful commercial artist and businessman in the rough-and-tumble gold rush era and the years after the Civil War. Best known for his bird’s-eye cityscapes,…

  • American Cocktail: A “Colored Girl” in the World

    American Cocktail: A “Colored Girl” in the World Harvard University Press 2014-02-17 352 pages 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches 20 halftones Hardcover ISBN 9780674073050 Anita Reynolds (1901-1980), actress, dancer, model, and psychologist with Howard Miller, Professor of Education and Chair in the Department of Secondary Education Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, New York Edited by: George Hutchinson,…

  • Cause of Death Affects Racial Classification on Death Certificates

    Cause of Death Affects Racial Classification on Death Certificates PLoS ONE: A peer-reviewed, open access journal Volume 6, Number 1 (2011-01-26) e15812 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015812 Andrew Noymer, Associate Professor of Sociology; Associate Professor of Population Health and Disease Prevention Public Health University of California, Irvine Andrew M. Penner, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Aliya…

  • Study: Stereotypes Drive Perceptions Of Race

    Study: Stereotypes Drive Perceptions Of Race Morning Edition National Public Radio 2014-02-11 Steve Inskeeep, Host Shankar Vedantam, Science correspondent Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Governments, schools and companies all keep track of your race. The stats they collect are used to track the proportion of blacks and whites who graduate from school,…

  • “Native Voices on Mixed Race” at the Mitchell Musem of the American Indian

    “Native Voices on Mixed Race” at the Mitchell Musem of the American Indian Native News Online.net Grand Rapids, Michigan 2014-02-07 Native News Online Staff Local Native Americans discuss the legal, cultural, & social boundaries of Native American status EVANSTON, ILLINOIS – There are over 30,000 American Indians living in the Chicago area, all of whom…