Day: March 2, 2014

  • The Strategies of Forbidden Love: Family across Racial Boundaries in Nineteenth-Century North Carolina Journal of Social History Volume 47, Issue 3 (Spring 2014) pages 612-626 DOI: 10.1093/jsh/sht112 Warren E. Milteer Jr. This article contends that although local beliefs and legal edicts attempted to discourage sexual and familial relationships between women of color and white men…

  • News Nation with Tamron Hall (with guest Yaba Blay) News Nation with Tamron Hall 2014-02-25 Drexel University Professor Yaba Blay discusses her new book (1)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race with host Tamron Hall. Watch the interview here.

  • President Obama calls for minority youth outreach programme BBC News 2014-02-27 US President Barack Obama has called for a national campaign to improve opportunities for black and Hispanic boys and young men. Called My Brother’s Keeper, his new initiative aims to overcome the socioeconomic conditions keeping such youth from thriving. The White House said businesses…

  • Dynamic representations of race: processing goals shape race decoding in the fusiform gyri Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Volume 9 Issue 3 (March 2014) pages 326-332 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nss138 Christian Kaul Department of Psychology and Center for Neural Science New York University Kyle G. Ratner Department of Psychology New York University Jay J. Van Bavel, Assistant…