Day: June 13, 2016

  • Essential Measures: Ancestry, Race, and Social Difference American Behavioral Scientist April 2016, Volume 60, Number 4 pages 498-518 DOI: 10.1177/0002764215613398 Aaron Gullickson, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Oregon Race and ancestry are both popularly viewed in the United States as different but intertwined reflections on a person’s essentialized identity that answer the question of…

  • The Rev. J. W. Loguen, as a Slave and as a Freeman: A Narrative of Real Life Including Previously Uncollected Letters Syracuse University Press 2016 360 pages 2 black-and-white illustrations, appendix, notes, index 7 x 10 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8156-3446-1 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8156-1068-7 ebook ISBN: 978-0-8156-5369-1 J. W. Loguen (1813-1872) Edited and with a Critical Introduction…

  • Inside The Five-Day Stretch When Obama Found His Voice On Race FiveThirtyEight 2016-05-26 The number of Americans “greatly worried” about race relations hit an all-time low, 13 percent, the year after President Obama took office. Last month, Gallup recorded the opposite, an all-time high of 35 percent. As Obama prepares to leave office, the conversation…

  • You Can’t Go from Zero to ‘The Daily Show’: The Playboy Interview with Trevor Noah Playboy 2016-05-19 David Hochman, Contributing Editor Has there ever been a more auspicious moment to chase after clown cars on the road to the White House? Since bravely taking over for Jon Stewart as host of The Daily Show last…

  • Large Abroad | London poet laureate Raymond Antrobus staying true to Jamaican roots The Gleaner Kingston, Jamaica 2016-06-13 Andre Poyser Raymond Antrobus Raymond Antrobus continues to be in strong contention to be named Young Poet Laureate for London – a position awarded annually to a poet age 21-30 living in the United Kingdom capital. Antrobus,…

  • When Guido Menzio sat down on a regional jet for a short flight from Philadelphia to Syracuse, New York, he certainly couldn’t have guessed what was going to happen. The 40-year-old economist was profiled as a terror suspect for being focused too intently on a math problem.

  • Loving Day 2016 Hapa Happy Hour 2016-06-11 Tune in with Lisa and Hiwa as they discover technology and talk about race, Loving Day, films, and politics! And feel free to contact us through hapahappyhour@gmail.com. Happy Loving Day! Listen to the podcast here. Download the podcast here.

  • Race isn’t biologically real. That doesn’t mean racism doesn’t exist. Vox 2016-06-11 Victoria M. Massie The first step to fixing a problem is acknowledging it exists. And in the latest episode of MTV’s Decoded, host Franchesca Ramsey breaks down exactly why being colorblind to someone’s race not only doesn’t fix racism but, if anything, she…