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Month: June 2014

  • Elliot Rodger at the Sometimes Troubling Intersection of Race and Gender

    Elliot Rodger at the Sometimes Troubling Intersection of Race and Gender Diverse: Issues In Higher Education 2014-06-04 Elwood Watson, Professor of History, African American Studies, and Gender Studies East Tennessee State University Many have now heard of Elliot Rodger, the self-hating, misogynistic 22-year-old man who shot more than a dozen people and murdered six in…

  • On My Upcoming Trip to Indian Country

    On My Upcoming Trip to Indian Country Indian Country Today Media Network 2014-06-05 Barack Obama, President of the United States Six years ago, I made my first trip to Indian country. I visited the Crow Nation in Montana—an experience I’ll never forget. I left with a new Crow name, an adoptive Crow family, and an…

  • Pinpointing Another Reason That More Hispanics Are Identifying as White

    Pinpointing Another Reason That More Hispanics Are Identifying as White The New York Times 2014-06-02 Nate Cohn Recently, I wrote about new research that showed that a net 1.2 million Hispanics changed their racial identification from “some other race” to “white” between the 2000 and 2010 censuses. Manuel Pastor, a professor at the University of…

  • Are Latinos Really Turning White?

    Are Latinos Really Turning White? Latino Voices The Huffington Post 2014-05-29 Manuel Pastor, Professor of Sociology and American Studies University of Southern California Writing for The New York Times, Nate Cohn recently reported that more Hispanics are identifying as white. The piece—which even includes a cute graphic in which a (presumably Latino) man steps from…

  • China in Africa

    China in Africa The Leonard Lopate Show WNYC 93.9 FM New York 2014-06-04 Leonard Lopate, Host China’s presence in Africa has been growing and it is shaping, and reshaping, the future of millions of people. Howard French, prizewinning foreign correspondent and former New York Times bureau chief in Shanghai and in West and Central Africa,…

  • Divided Loyalties

    Divided Loyalties BBC Radio 1Xtra’s Stories BBC 2014-05-04 (Available until 2014-05-09) Duration: 1 hour DJ Semtex, Host DJ Semtex has a black mother and a white father and, as a mixed race kid, had both negative and positive experiences. The latest national census showed that the mixed race population is the fastest growing in Britain,…

  • The Chosen Exile of Racial “Passing:” Allyson Hobbs at TEDxStanford

    The Chosen Exile of Racial “Passing:” Allyson Hobbs at TEDxStanford TEDx Talks 2014-05-30 Allyson Hobbs, PhD 2009, speaks about the history of racial passing for TEDx Talks. Using the Emersonian idea of “coming up with the emphatic facts of history in our private experience,” Hobbs tells the story of a cousin who passed for white,…

  • The “Passing” of Elsie Roxborough

    Driving her fashionable Ford roadster from Detroit to Ann Arbor, Elsie Roxborough arrived at the University of Michigan as a freshman fifty years ago last fall. She was the first Negro student to live in a University dormitory. Her classmate Arthur Miller, an aspiring playwright and fellow reporter on the campus newspaper, called her “a…

  • Possessions of Whiteness: Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness in the Pacific

    Possessions of Whiteness: Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness in the Pacific Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society June 2014 (2014-06-02) Maile Arvin, Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies University of California, Riverside I confess: I avoided watching the 2011 Oscar award-winning movie The Descendants (directed by the acclaimed Alexander Payne of Sideways and Nebraska, starring George Clooney) for…

  • Was the Cat in the Hat Black?: Exploring Dr. Seuss’s Racial Imagination

    Was the Cat in the Hat Black?: Exploring Dr. Seuss’s Racial Imagination Children’s Literature Volume 42, 2014 pages 71-98 DOI: 10.1353/chl.2014.0019 Philip Nel, Distinguished Professor of English Kansas State University In 1955, Dr. Seuss and William Spaulding—director of Houghton Mifflin’s educational division—stepped into the publisher’s elevator at 2 Park Street in Boston. As Seuss’s biographers…