Month: October 2015

  • The “mixed race” community—powered to a significant (embarrassing?) extent by white mothers of kids who are not white—seeks a unique “mixed” identity, and Obama could be a poster child. But I don’t think we need poster children for mixed identity: we need a world in which a Black man can be president, no matter who…

  • Diversity and cohesion in Britain’s most mixed community Financial Times 2015-10-14 John McDermott At the Barking Road Community Centre in Plaistow, dancers sway and twirl to calypso beats. If the music hints at the centre’s past as an Afro-Caribbean club, the mix of elderly boppers suggest how the composition of this pocket of east London…

  • Race Correction and Inequalities in Medicine ANTH 1310 S01: International Health: Anthropological Perspectives Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 2015-10-02 Methma Udawatta The history of medicine is fraught with unnecessary racialization. In “The Diseased Heart of Africa: Medicine, Colonialism, and the Black Body,” Comaroff writes about how the black body became “associated with degradation, disease, and…

  • What I am learning from my white grandchildren — truths about race TEDxAntioch 2014-11-04 Anthony Peterson This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Are we in a post-racial society? Do we want to be? Anthony Peterson, an African American, draws from current research and from conversations with…

  • This Essay aims to engage readers in a thought experiment, to envision what equal protection doctrine might look like if it were structured to reflect the values identity is intended to serve without explicitly invoking identity categories as a way to delineate permissible and impermissible forms of discrimination.

  • Do You Have a Cherokee in Your Family Tree? History News Network George Mason University 2015-10-18 Gregory D. Smithers, Associate Professor of History Virginia Commonwealth University Gregory D. Smithers is an Associate Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University and the author of The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity (Yale…

  • Korean TV networks move to oust discrimination against gender, race The Korean Herald 2015-10-18 Claire Lee A much-criticized scene from MBC’s “Three Wheels,” where two female comedians appeared in blackface in 2012. Photo: MBC Screengrab In 2012, South Korea’s public broadcaster MBC sparked outrage among international viewers when it aired a segment of two Korean…

  • The Poetry Society of America Presents: A Tribute to the Poet Ai Proshansky Auditorium CUNY Graduate Center 365 5th Avenue (at 34th Street) New York, New York 10016 Monday, 2015-10-19 19:00 EDT (Local Time) Ai In light of the poet’s unexpected passing in 2010 and in celebration of her Collected Poems (Norton, 2012), the PSA…

  • The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity Yale University Press 2015-09-29 368 pages 17 b/w illustrations 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Cloth ISBN: 9780300169607 Gregory D. Smithers, Associate Professor of History Virginia Commonwealth University The Cherokee are one of the largest Native American tribes in the United States, with more than…

  • Tired of Tradition, Honey Maid’s Marketing Chief Chose to Put the Spotlight on Modern Families Adweek 2015-10-18 T.L. Stanley Gary Osifchin, Honey Maid portfolio lead, Mondelez Photo: Sasha Maslov Adweek’s 2015 Brand Genius winner for CPG/food It always seemed strange to Gary Osifchin that the characters in traditional advertising were so, well, traditional. “There was…