Month: October 2015

  • America’s forgotten migration – the journeys of a million African-Americans from the tobacco South to the cotton South

  • In 1858 François-Auguste Biard, a well-known sixty-year-old French artist, arrived in Brazil to explore and depict its jungles and the people who lived there. What did he see and how did he see it? In this book historian Ana Lucia Araujo examines Biard’s Brazil with special attention to what she calls his “tropical romanticism”: a…

  • Counseling the Multiracial Population: Couples, Individuals, and Families Microtraining Associates 2003 01:15:00 Kelley Kenney Mark Kenney This film presents the worldview experiences of interracial couples, multiracial individuals, and multiracial families including trans-racial adoptive families. It also makes clear suggestions for action in the interview. Six live demonstrations showcase typical issues such as concerns and challenges…

  • Just Black?: Multi-Racial Identity Filmakers Library 1992 00:59:00 Produced by: Francine Winddance Twine Jonathan F. Warren Francisco Ferrandiz Most of us at one time or other are faced with an official form requiring us to “check” the applicable ethnic designation. What “box” does a person check if his or her parents come from different racial…

  • New Film Shows Misty Copeland’s Journey as a Black Ballerina NBC News 2015-09-30 Maya Chung The 2015 Urbanworld Festival closed out on Saturday night with the highly anticipated documentary “A Ballerina’s Tale,” which details Misty Copeland’s journey to become a principal ballerina. The film festival, founded in 1997, is a five-day event that showcases narrative…

  • New ‘Hysterical’ Web Series Explores Single Life for 40-Something Women of Color Chic Rebellion 2015-10-01 Elayne Fluker, Chief Executive Officer “You know, marriage is hard. I’m not always happy–the shit gets hard.” So goes a line by Rain Pryor to actress Esther Friedman in Friedman’s new web series, Hysterical Historical Hillary–which screens at the Bushwick…

  • Public Symposium — DNA and Indigeneity Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage (IPinCH) Simon Fraser University Harbour Centre Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 2015-10-22, 12:30-17:30 PDT (Local Time) On October 22 at 12:30 pm, join us for the DNA and Indigeneity: The Changing Role of Genetics in Indigenous Rights, Tribal Belonging, and Repatriation conference in downtown Vancouver.…

  • And Korla Pandit had reason to never speak. Speaking might have given away his secret…

  • Human Variation: A Genetic Perspective on Diversity, Race, and Medicine Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 2014 131 pages (21 4C, 5B&W), index Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-621820-90-1 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-936113-25-5 Edited by: Aravinda Chakravarti, Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, Molecular Biology & Genetics, and, Biostatistics Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Institute of Genetic Medicine Since the appearance…

  • Regulating Mixed Marriages through Acquisition and Loss of Citizenship The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Volume 662, Number 1, November 2015 pages 170-187 DOI: 10.1177/0002716215595390 Betty de Hart, Professor of Law Radboud University, The Netherlands Mixed marriages have always had an ambiguous and often problematic relationship with the law. On…