Month: November 2014

  • On The Cusp of Dual Identities #Dispatch: Afropean Everywhere All The Time 2014-11-10 Bani Amor Johny Pitts is a writer, photographer, and broadcast journalist interested in issues of Afro-European identity. He won a Decibel Penguin Prize for a short story included in the ‘The Map of Me’; a Penguin books anthology about mixed-race identity. He…

  • Growing Up “Too Black” In Trinidad The New Local: Think Global, Read Local 2014-11-10 Malaika Crichlow Miami, Florida I grew up in Trinidad in the 80s and 90s as a black girl child. To be black in a country that idealizes the curly hair and mixed ethnicity aesthetic is rough to say the least. Although…

  • The Skin I’m In – At the Korean Sauna Ms. Food Queen: Cooking Across Difference November 2014 Christine Gregory I am lying naked on a padded linoleum table while a heavyset Korean ajumma (middle aged woman) scrubs every inch of my body.  I catch a glimpse of the tiny rolls of dead skin left behind…

  • Review: Leilani Nishime’s Undercover Asian: Multiracial Asian Americans in Visual Culture Slant 2014-02-03 Clayton Dillard, Staff Critic In 2003, The New York Times published an article entitled “Generation E.A.” which discussed the emergent role of multiracial people in advertising campaigns and concluded by suggesting that they’re an emerging racial category and a stepping-stone key to…

  • Only history maligns Malaga Island The Portland Press Herald Portland, Maine 2014-10-26 Dierdre Fleming, Outdoor Reporter The Casco Bay island’s future needn’t be lost in a painful past marked by intolerance. MALAGA ISLAND — The tragic story of Malaga Island has been told many times since the tiny isle off Phippsburg was sold in 2001…

  • Four Statements on the Race Question United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) 1969 54 pages Foreword This booklet reproduces the texts of four statements on the race question prepared by groups of experts brought together by Unesco in 1950, 1951, 1964 and 1967, as part of its programme to make known the scientific…

  • When whites are guilty of colorism The Washington Post 2014-11-08 Lance Hannon, Professor Department of Sociology and Criminology Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania Robert DeFina, Professor Department of Sociology and Criminology Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania The 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits employment discrimination based on “race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.” However, in our public…

  • AAPA Statement on Biological Aspects of Race American Journal of Physical Anthropology Volume 101, Issue 4, December 1996 pages 569–570 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1331010408 PREAMBLE As scientists who study human evolution and variation, we believe that we have an obligation to share with other scientists and the general public our current understanding of the structure of human…

  • There Is No Such Thing as Race Newsweek 2014-11-08 Robert Wald Sussman, Professor of Physical Anthropology Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri In 1950, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) issued a statement asserting that all humans belong to the same species and that “race” is not a biological reality but a myth.…

  • Honduran held in Mexican jail returns home BBC News 2014-11-08 A Honduran migrant who was jailed for more than five years by Mexican police is expected to arrive in his home country on Sunday. Angel Amilcar Colon Quevedo belongs to the Garifuna community, descended from African slaves and indigenous groups. He was picked up in…