Month: July 2014

  • Mixed roots, common bonds The Kansas City Star Kansas City, Missouri 2014-07-21 Jeneé Osterheldt Her first year at KU [University of Kansas], Jasmin Moore noticed the black students sat together. The Hispanic students sat together. And everyone else did the same. This was over a decade ago. “For the first time, I was trying to…

  • Fatal Invention with Dorothy Roberts Research at the National Archives and Beyond BlogTalk Radio Thursday, 2014-07-24, 21:00 EDT, (Friday, 2014-07-25, 01:00Z) Bernice Bennett, Host Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology; Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights University of Pennsylvania Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and…

  • The Invisible Line: A Secret History of Race in America – Daniel J. Sharfstein Research at the National Archives and Beyond BlogTalk Radio Thursday, 2014-06-26, 21:00 EDT, (Friday, 2014-06-27, 01:00Z) Bernice Bennett, Host Daniel J. Sharfstein, Professor of Law Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee Join author, Daniel J. Sharfstein for a discussion of his book and…

  • Danny’s tall and skinny. Even though he’s not built, his arms are long enough to give his pitch a power so fierce any college scout would sign him on the spot. Ninety-five mile an hour fastball, but the boy’s not even on a team. Every time he gets up on the mound he loses it.

  • Census Data Confusion, Manipulation, and Latinos of Mixed Ancestry or “Should Latino be a Race?” Presented at The Second Annual Mixed Heritage Conference University of California, Los Angeles 2014-04-16 Thomas Lopez, President Multiracial Americans of Southern California (MASC) Multiracial Americans President Thomas Lopez delivers a talk on changing the Census categories to allow Latino to…

  • Race in a Baby’s Face Psychology Today 2014-07-28 Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, Ed.D, Psychologist and Co-founder Stanford University LifeWorks program for Integrative Learning Crawling the color line Race is supposedly something objective, even biological, that we’re ascribed at birth and marks us through our whole lives, assigning us to a group that separates us from others. But…

  • Loving v. Virginia in Historical Context Crossing Borders, Bridging Generatons Brooklyn Historical Society June 2014 Renee Romano, Associate Professor of History Oberlin College Renee Romano teaches history at Oberlin College and she is the author of Race Mixing: Black-White Marriage in Postwar America (Harvard University Press, 2003), and co-editor of The Civil Rights Movement in…

  • No ‘rainbow families’: Ethnic donor stipulation at fertility centre ‘floors’ local woman Calgary Herald Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2014-07-25 Jessica Barrett A Calgary woman says she was shocked to learn of a policy at the city’s only fertility treatment centre that restricts patients from using sperm, eggs or embryos from donors who do not match their…

  • I’m Not White, But Nobody Can Ever Tell What Race I Am xoJane.com 2014-07-25 Casey Walker Emerson College, Boston, Massachusetts I have to go through a “coming out” moment in every new relationship to explain my ethnicity. My skin is pale olive in the winter and a soft brown in the summer, and my hair…

  • Race & Its Categories in Historical Perspective Crossing Borders, Bridging Generatons Brooklyn Historical Society June 2014 Ann Morning, Associate Professor of Sociology New York University A native New Yorker, Ann Morning is an associate professor of sociology at New York University and the author of The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach about…