Month: November 2014

  • Use of Race and Ethnicity in Public Health Surveillance: Summary of the CDC/ATSDR Workshop United States Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Volume 42, 1993-06-25, Number RR-10 28 pages …Preface This edition of MMWR Recommendations and Reports summarizes a workshop that addresses the role of race and…

  • ‘Dear White People’ or ‘Dear Bougie Black People’? The Boston Globe 2014-11-04 Farah Stockman THIS WEEKEND, I saw the new satirical film “Dear White People.” I was curious what it would tell me about how young people view race today. Each generation plays out the drama of race in the movies. Baby boomers flocked to“Guess…

  • Republican Larry Hogan wins Md. governor’s race in stunning upset The Washington Post 2014-11-05 John Wagner, Maryland Political Reporter Jenna Johnson, Maryland Political Reporter Republican businessman Larry Hogan pulled off a stunning upset in heavily Democratic Maryland on Tuesday, winning the governor’s race against Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown by relentlessly promising to roll back…

  • The “Dear White People” syndrome: Why movies are obsessed with light-skinned black characters Salon 2014-10-23 Morgan Jerkins This isn’t the first film to relegate dark-skinned actors to the sidelines — but it may be the most frustrating For Princeton University’s recent Black Alumni Conference, an advance screening of “Dear White People” took place at the…

  • St Martin de Porres Victoria and Albert Museum: The world’s greatest museum of art and design London, United Kingdom 2014-11-03 William Newton, Assistant Curator Today on Sanctus Ignotum we have a case study in race relations, and our first South American saint. Born in Lima, Peru in 1579, the illegitimate son of a Spanish knight…

  • A Letter and the Legacy of “Not White” in the USA Nursing Clio: Because the Personal is Historical 2014-11-04 Adam Turner, Co-founder and Technical Editor With the events of the past months, and as Austin McCoy discussed here on Nursing Clio last week, it should be clear that white privilege is still alive and well…

  • Cincy in 2060: 1 in 7 of us will be biracial The Cincinnati Enquirer 2014-10-21 Mark Curnutte, Social Justice/Minority Affairs Reporter Photos and video by: Cara Owsley, Staff Photojournalist A new index suggests many of our communities will look less like they do today and more like Austin or Washington, D.C. EAST PRICE HILL – …

  • Seahawks’ Russell Wilson Controversy Shows Dangers of Racial Authenticity Tests The American Prospect 2014-11-01 Kevin Cokley, Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology; Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies University of Texas, Austin The ‘are you black enough?’ question is perilously close to the racist one-drop rule of yore—whether called by blacks or whites. Whether…

  • Bet You Didn’t Know: Secrets Behind The Making Of “Imitation Of Life” Madame Noire 2014-07-21 Veronica Wells, Associate Editor Everybody knows Imitation of Life. It’s the movie plenty of Black families reference when they speak about the original tearjerkers. When you think about it, it’s amazing that a movie that handled subjects such as race…

  • Blacks, Obama and the Election The New York Times 2014-11-02 Charles M. Blow, Visual Op-Ed columnist President Obama’s name won’t be on any ballots Tuesday, but he will most certainly be on them in spirit — a fact that many Republicans are trumpeting and some Democrats are hoping to downplay. The president is not particularly…