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Month: January 2015

  • Racial Bias, Even When We Have Good Intentions

    Racial Bias, Even When We Have Good Intentions The Upshot The New York Times 2015-01-03 Sendhil Mullainathan, Professor of Economics Harvard University The deaths of African-Americans at the hands of the police in Ferguson, Mo., in Cleveland and on Staten Island have reignited a debate about race. Some argue that these events are isolated and…

  • I Claim Black Because My Light Skin Doesn’t Protect Me from Misogynoir

    I Claim Black Because My Light Skin Doesn’t Protect Me from Misogynoir For Harriet 2015-01-03 Kesiena Boom Brighton, England I am a mixed race woman. One of my parents is Black and the other is white. I identify as both mixed race and as Black. I do so because of the legacy of the one…

  • Dreams of my mother…

    Dreams of my mother… One Love, One London 2015-01-04 Tony Thomas It’s October 1959; Paddington station is busy… Scanning the departures board for her train a nervous looking woman hurries towards the platform. In one hand she carries a suitcase and holding her other hand tightly is a pretty 2 year old; a mixed race…

  • ‘A Tale of Two Plantations,’ by Richard S. Dunn

    ‘A Tale of Two Plantations,’ by Richard S. Dunn Sunday Rook Review The New York Times 2015-01-02 Greg Grandin, Professor of History New York University Dunn, Richard S., A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014). For enslaved peoples in the New World, it was…

  • Edward Brooke, first black elected U.S. senator, dies at 95

    Edward Brooke, first black elected U.S. senator, dies at 95 USA Today 2015-01-03 Natalie DiBlasio Former Massachusetts U.S. senator Edward Brooke, the first African American to be elected to the Senate by popular vote, has died at age 95. Ralph Neas, a former aide, said Brooke died Saturday of natural causes at his home in…

  • Edward Brooke, Pioneering U.S. Senator in Massachusetts, Dies at 95

    Edward Brooke, Pioneering U.S. Senator in Massachusetts, Dies at 95 The New York Times 2015-01-03 Douglas Martin Edward W. Brooke III, who in 1966 became the first African-American elected to the United States Senate by popular vote, winning as a Republican in overwhelmingly Democratic Massachusetts, died on Saturday at his home in Coral Gables, Fla.…

  • A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia

    Forty years ago, after publication of his pathbreaking book “Sugar and Slaves,” Richard Dunn began an intensive investigation of two thousand slaves living on two plantations, one in North America and one in the Caribbean.

  • Our real police/race problem: Diverse forces, white resentment, and America’s persistent divides

    Our real police/race problem: Diverse forces, white resentment, and America’s persistent divides Salon 2015-01-02 Jim Sleeper Why diverse police forces can’t seem to trump the economics of racism, or the twisted politics of white resentment Nearly two decades before last month’s murders of New York police officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu by a black…

  • Of Many Colors: Portraits of Multiracial Families

    Of Many Colors: Portraits of Multiracial Families University of Massachusetts Press 1997-11-21 160 pages 0.5 x 8 x 10.5 inches ISBN (paper): 978-1-55849-101-4 ISBN (cloth): 978-1-55849-100-7 (out of print) Gigi Kaeser, Co-director Family Diversity Projects, Inc., Amherst, Massachusetts Peggy Gillespie, Co-director Family Diversity Projects, Inc., Amherst, Massachusetts Photographs by Gigi Kaeser. Interviews by Peggy Gillespie.…

  • Revealing Racial Purity Ideology: Fear of Black–White Intimacy as a Framework for Understanding School Discipline in Post-Brown Schools

    Revealing Racial Purity Ideology: Fear of Black–White Intimacy as a Framework for Understanding School Discipline in Post-Brown Schools Educational Administration Quarterly Volume 50, Number 5 (December 2014) pages 783-795 DOI: 10.1177/0013161X14549958 Decoteau J. Irby, Assistant Professor School of Education University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Purpose: In this article, I explore White racial purity desire as an…