Mixed Race Studies

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Month: April 2014

  • I Was Racially Profiled in My Own Driveway

    I Was Racially Profiled in My Own Driveway The Atlantic 2014-04-14 Doug Glanville A retired Major League Baseball player explains how he’s trying to turn an upsetting encounter with the police into an opportunity for dialogue. It was an otherwise ordinary snow day in Hartford, Connecticut, and I was laughing as I headed outside to…

  • Barack Obama’s Warning to People of Mixed Heritage

    Barack Obama’s Warning to People of Mixed Heritage Eighth Generation 2014-01-22 Louie Gong Back in April 2005, a group of mixed people sponsored by the nonprofit MAVIN had the golden opportunity to sit down with the then-Senator Obama. The conversation, filmed as part of the feature length documentary “Chasing Daybreak,” may be the only interview…

  • Americans Say Obama’s Not Black? How Pew Got This Wrong

    Americans Say Obama’s Not Black? How Pew Got This Wrong The Root 2014-04-14 Jenée Desmond-Harris, Senior Staff Writer and White House Correspondent Saying “Yes, Obama is mixed race” is not the same as saying “No, he’s not black.” Racial Identity 101: You can be both. Twenty-seven percent of Americans say President Barack Obama is black,…

  • Forget Policy—Americans Can’t Even Agree on Whether Obama Is Black

    Forget Policy—Americans Can’t Even Agree on Whether Obama Is Black TakePart 2014-04-15 Liz Dwyer, Staff Writer A Pew Research Center study finds that whites and Latinos identify the commander-in-chief as ‘mixed race.’ If you thought the United States had achieved the significant historic milestone of electing its first African American president, think again. According to…

  • The Next America

    The Next America Pew Research Center 2014-04-10 Paul Taylor, Executive Vice President of Special Projects Demographic transformations are dramas in slow motion. America is in the midst of two right now. Our population is becoming majority non-white at the same time a record share is going gray. Each of these shifts would by itself be…

  • Book Release of Prof. Lundy Braun’s Breathing Race into the Machine

    Book Release of Prof. Lundy Braun’s Breathing Race into the Machine Brown University Providence, Rhode Island Program in Science and Technology Studies 2014-03-26 This February, Royce Family Professor in Teaching Excellence, professor of medical science and Africana studies, and a member of the Science and Technology Studies Program, Lundy Braun released her new book Breathing…

  • Mixed or Not, Why Are We Still Taking Pictures of “Race”?

    Just days ago PolicyMic put up a piece entitled “National Geographic Concludes What Americans Will Look Like in 2050, and It’s Beautiful.” In it writer Zak Cheney-Rice attempts to address the so-called rise of multiracial peoples which has captured/enchanted the public eye and with which the media has become deeply enamored.

  • National Geographic Concludes What Americans Will Look Like in 2050, and It’s Beautiful

    National Geographic Concludes What Americans Will Look Like in 2050, and It’s Beautiful PolicyMic 2014-04-10 Zak Cheney-Rice, Writer covering race, hip-hop, sports and pop culture It’s no secret that interracial relationships are trending upward, and in a matter of years we’ll have Tindered, OKCupid-ed and otherwise sexed ourselves into one giant amalgamated mega-race. But what…

  • Approaching race as a social rather than biological construct

    Approaching race as a social rather than biological construct The Daily Pennsylvanian Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2014-04-08 Laura Anthony The Program on Race, Science and Society will examine the role of race in scientific research at upcoming symposium In 1851, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine graduate Samuel Cartwright delivered a report to the Medical Association…

  • 5 Nations That Imported Europeans to Whiten The Population

    5 Nations That Imported Europeans to Whiten The Population Atlanta Black Star 2014-03-10 Andre Moore After the trans-Atlantic slave trade was officially abolished toward the end of the 19th century, many whites felt threatened and feared free Blacks would become a menacing element in society. The elites spent a great dealing of time mulling over…