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Month: February 2014

  • For me as a young lieutenant, who couldn’t go off the post in Columbus, Georgia, could go off the post anywhere in Germany. It was a breath of freedom.

    “When I first went to Germany in January, 1959, I just finished my training in Columbus, Georgia, at Fort Benning. In Columbus, Georgia it was still segregated. There was discrimination. There was racism. For me as a young lieutenant, who couldn’t go off the post in Columbus, Georgia, could go off the post anywhere in Germany. It…

  • Cultural Identities: Mixed Blood

    Cultural Identities: Mixed Blood Mitchell Museum of the American Indian 3001 Central Street Evanston, Illinois 60201 847.475.1030 September 2013 With the influx of immigrants from throughout the world, the United States has been called the great melting pot. But how has this played out for the original people in America? Explore how American Indian peoples…

  • Stuart Hall – obituary

    Stuart Hall – obituary The Telegraph London, England 2014-02-11 Stuart Hall was a cultural theorist who coined the term ‘Thatcherism’ and profoundly influenced New Labour Stuart Hall, who has died aged 82, came to Britain from his native Jamaica in 1951 and established himself as a leading cultural theorist and as a hero of the…

  • In meetings with young black men, Obama tries to leave a mark

    In meetings with young black men, Obama tries to leave a mark The Washington Post 2014-02-09 Zachary A. Goldfarb, Staff Writer CHICAGO – Kerron Turner sat with more than a dozen other teenagers in a classroom at Hyde Park Academy High School on this city’s troubled South Side, nervously settling in for an unusual meeting…

  • Migrating race: migration and racial identification among Puerto Ricans

    Migrating race: migration and racial identification among Puerto Ricans Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 37, Number 3 (2014-02-23) pages 383-404 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2012.672759 Carlos Vargas-Ramos, Research Associate Center for Puerto Rican Studies Hunter College, City University of New York The pattern of racial identification among Puerto Ricans is not uniform. It varies depending on where they…

  • Into the melting pot

    Into the melting pot The Economist 2014-02-08 The rapid rise of mixed-race Britain is changing neighbourhoods—and perplexing the authorities ZADIE SMITH, a novelist born to a black Jamaican mother and a white British father, recently recalled that when she was growing up in Willesden Green, a London district with a large immigrant population, “nothing could…

  • Black History Month celebrates both race and ethnicity

    Black History Month celebrates both race and ethnicity The Red & Black University Georgia Student Newspaper Athens, Georgia 2014-07-02 Mariya Lewter, Sphomore Decatur, Georgia As a person of “mixed” race, I’ve always found it difficult to truly racially identify myself. Not because I don’t know who I am, but because others refused to accept my…

  • Where Is My Family on TV?

    Where Is My Family on TV? The New York Times 2014-02-08 Jenna Wortham, Technology Reporter One of my earliest memories is of sitting in an idling car with my mom and sister outside a convenience store in Virginia. Dad’s inside, buying cigarettes and scratch-off lottery tickets. Suddenly, a wild-eyed man appears at the driver-side window,…

  • How I Learned To Feel Undesirable

    How I Learned To Feel Undesirable Code Switch: Fronter of Race, Culure and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2014-02-04 Noah Cho For the past few weeks, we’ve convened a conversation about romance across racial and cultural lines. Some of the most eloquent accounts we encountered came from a Bay Area junior high school teacher named Noah…

  • Ties to Thomas Jefferson Unravel Family Mystery

    Ties to Thomas Jefferson Unravel Family Mystery The Root 2014-01-26 Gayle Jessup White A woman seeks answers to decades-old questions about whether her family is related to the descendants of Thomas Jefferson. ore than 40 years ago, I learned of my family’s ancestral ties to Thomas Jefferson. It was a blood connection impossible to prove,…