Month: May 2015

  • The Challenge of Mixed-Blood Nations Indian Country Today Media Network 2015-04-25 Duane Champagne, Professor of Sociology and American Indian Studies; Professor of Law University of California, Los Angeles Countries with indigenous nations usually also have mixed-blood nations composed of people of indigenous descent and other nations or races. In an increasingly shrinking world where ethnicity…

  • What is Systemic Racism? Race Forward 2015-05-13 Rinku Sen President of Race Forward & Publisher of Colorlines introduces the “What Is Systemic Racism?” video series featuring our very own Jay Smooth. Watch the entire video series here.

  • Having come through some difficult times as a teenager Kira now happily identifies with both of her cultural backgrounds. Annina says that when you are ‘mixed-race’ people make assumptions about your identity and consider it to be “up for debate”, but she is clear that “whiteness is not something I’m a part of.”

  • No Charges for Wisconsin Officer in Killing of Unarmed Black Teenager The New York Times 2015-05-12 Richard Pérez-Peña (@perezpena), National Desk A Madison, Wis., police officer who killed an unarmed black man in March, in one of a spate of similar incidents that have set off protests around the country, will not face criminal charges,…

  • “People that look like me that break windows, flip cars, and light things on fire are protected by infantilizing comments that state: “boys will be boys,” absolving them of any responsibility. Whereas people that look like my father are shot in the back as they run away, choked to death, or have their necks broken.”…

  • New Bill Would Let New Yorkers Identify As Multiracial On Official City Forms The Huffington Post 2015-05-12 Christopher Mathias (@letsgomathias), New York Reporter New York City has the largest population in the United States of people who identify as multiracial. Even its mayor, Bill de Blasio, and its first lady, Chirlane McCray, have two multiracial…

  • ‘Typical American Families’ photo exhibit to be unveiled at Emory Emory News Center Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 2015-05-04 Kimber Williams “Typical American Families” highlights the many configurations that family life can take in America. Photos in the exhibit will be unveiled at a public reception at the Center for Ethics on May 7. Photo by…

  • In Twilight of Term, Obama Finds More Urgent Voice on Race Bloomberg News 2015-05-11 Mike Dorning, White House Correspondent Angela Greiling Keane, White House Correspondent Polls show racial polarization in the U.S. is at the highest in decades. With his time in office waning, President Obama is speaking out on race and poverty in increasingly…

  • DNA survey finds all humans are 99.9pc the same The Telegraph 2002-12-20 Roger Highfield, Science Editor Whether you hail from Surbiton, Ulan Bator or Nairobi, your genetic make-up is strikingly similar to that of every other person on Earth, an analysis concludes today. Although scientists have long recognised that, despite physical differences, all human populations…

  • “The Color Factor: The Economics of African-American Well-Being in the Nineteenth-Century South” demonstrates that the emergent twenty-first-century recognition of race mixing and the relative advantages of light-skinned, mixed-race people represent a re-emergence of one salient feature of race in America that dates to its founding.