Month: August 2015

  • Writer Jesmyn Ward reflects on survival since Katrina PBS NewsHour 2015-08-24 Gwen Ifill, Co-Anchor & Managing Editor Jesmyn Ward, Associate Professor of English Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana After writer and Tulane University professor Jesmyn Ward survived Hurricane Katrina while staying at her grandmother’s house, she wrote “Salvage the Bones,” an award-winning novel about a…

  • Study investigates whether blind people characterize others by race EurekAlert! The Global Source for Science News American Association for the Advancement of Science 2015-08-25 American Sociological Association CHICAGO — Most people who meet a new acquaintance, or merely pass someone on the street, need only a glance to categorize that person as a particular race.…

  • The Race Draft Fails, Again Ebony 2015-08-26 Damon Young, Writer (left) Barack Obama, Mariah Carey and Shawn King Damon Young says a recent campaign questioning Shaun King’s ethnicity is the latest in a string of attempts to take good Blacks out the gene pool We should have seen it coming. All the signs were there.…

  • Moor, Mulata, Mulatta: Sentimentalism, Racialization, and Benevolent Imperialism in Mary Peabody Mann’s Juanita J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Volume 2, Number 2, Fall 2014 pages 301-329 DOI: 10.1353/jnc.2014.0021 Maria A. Windell, Assistant Professor of English University of Colorado, Boulder “Moor, Mulata, Mulatta” argues that Mary Peabody Mann’s Juanita (1887) imports U.S. sentimental abolitionism to…

  • Photographer Explores The Beautiful Diversity Of Redheads Of Color The Huffington Post 2015-08-25 Priscilla Frank, Arts Writer Michelle Marshall Red hair is usually the result of a mutation in a gene called MC1R, also known as a melanocortin 1 receptor. Normally, when activated by a certain hormone, MC1R sparks a series of signals that leads…

  • Black Mexico: Unearthing the ‘Third Root’ The Compton Herald Compton, California 2015-08-16 Jarrette Fellows, Jr. Spaniards, African slaves, and indigenous Indians in Colonial Mexico forged a unique ethnic blend known as ‘Black Mexicans’ This multiple-part series will unravel the little-known history of how Mexico’s 15th-century assimilation of Spaniards, indigenous Indians, and African slaves into “Black…

  • Seeking Biracial Participants for Study on Social Experiences Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Department of Psychology 2015-08-05 Analia Albuja Multiracial and multicultural populations have grown tremendously in recent years, yet their unique social experiences remain understudied. The present study is being conducted by Analia Albuja, a graduate student in social psychology and attempts to fill…

  • Mixed Race Male and Female Participants Needed to Take Part in a Research Project ESRC Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom 2015-07-25 Karis Campion, Ph.D. Doctoral Researcher and Graduate Teaching Assistant Do you have Mixed White and Black Caribbean heritage? Were you born between 1955-1970 or 1980-1995? Did…

  • Now casting nationwide for a dynamic and charismatic, blended, interracial family! Kinetic Content (part of Red Arrow Entertainment Group) Los Angeles, California 2015-08-12 Angelo Ierace, Development Producer Kinetic Content, a television production company in Los Angeles, California, is currently developing docu-series that will feature the day-to-day life of one blended, interracial family. If you and…

  • Mixed-race heritage complicates stem cell search Radio Canada International 2015-08-24 Lynn Desjardins A 19-year-old woman with cancer is having trouble finding a stem cell donor because of her mixed aboriginal and Irish roots. Rosalie Lirette Gilbert was diagnosed on June 29 with acute lymphoblastic leukemia—a cancer of the blood and bone marrow…. Read the entire…