Month: November 2014

  • Marni Soupcoff: A law that bans ‘mixed race’ couples? Yes. In 2014. In Canada National Post Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2014-11-06 Marni Soupcoff, Deputy Comment Editor A Canadian woman falls in love and joins her life with that of a man of a different race. As a direct result of this union, she is harassed, receives…

  • ‘The abuse we suffered due to our skin colour is being airbrushed from Irish history’ TheJournal.ie Dublin, Ireland 2014-10-22 Nicky Ryan, Staff Reporter Members of Mixed Race Irish before the committee today. Source: Oireachtas.ie Mixed Race Irish is asking for the Government to recognise the abuse they suffered in State-run institutions. IN A EMOTIONAL appearance…

  • Matthew McConaughey & Gary Ross Mount Civil War Saga; Bob Simonds’ STX In Talks To Finance Deadline Hollywood 2014-11-05 Mike Fleming Jr., Film Editor Anita Busch, Film Editor EXCLUSIVE: Matthew McConaughey and writer-director Gary Ross are the catalysts for a project called Free State Of Jones, which is getting some serious attention from STX Entertainment,…

  • “People believe in race so strongly they’re faithful to it. Race is like a religion to us,” said Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, writer and performer of One Drop of Love, a one-woman multimedia show coming to the Straz Center for the Performing Arts Saturday night.

  • This is the first in a series of interviews with philosophers on race that I am conducting for The Stone. This week’s conversation is with Naomi Zack, a professor of philosophy at the University of Oregon and the author of “The Ethics and Mores of Race: Equality After the History of Philosophy.” The interview was…

  • BEING a mixed-race black person… Max News: ‘View from the Bottom’ Magazine of Kevin Maxwell London, United Kingdom 2014-11-05 Kevin Maxwell I was talking with a black woman earlier, and we happened to get on to the subject of race – something close to my skin, literally. She said that a lot of mixed-race people…

  • Philosophy of Science and Race Routledge 2002-09-20 152 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-94164-8 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-94163-1 Naomi Zack, Professor of Philosophy University of Oregon Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Reason and Method 1. Philosophical Racial Essentialism: Hume and Kant 2. Geography and Ideas of Race 3. Phenotypes and Ideas of Race 4. Transmisson Genetics and Ideas…

  • The Ethics and Mores of Race: Equality after the History of Philosophy Rowman & Littlefield July 2011 216 pages Size: 6 3/4 x 9 1/2 Hardback ISBN: 978-1-4422-1125-4 eBook ISBN: 978-1-4422-1127-8 Naomi Zack, Professor of Philosophy University of Oregon Preeminent philosopher, Naomi Zack, brings us an indispensable work in the ethics of race through an…

  • Am I ‘black enough’? Cable News Network (CNN) 2014-10-27 Gene Seymour Editor’s note: Gene Seymour is a film critic who has written about music, movies and culture for The New York Times, Newsday, Entertainment Weekly and The Washington Post. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the writer. (CNN) — I am…

  • My Children and the Limits of White Privilege Nursing Clio: Because the Personal is Historical 2013-08-28 Danielle J. Swiontek, Assistant Professor of History Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, California Nursing Clio is honored to have Danielle J. Swiontek as our guest author today. Danielle is an Assistant Professor of History at Santa Barbara City…