Month: October 2016

  • Review of Jonathan Kahn, Race in a Bottle: The Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine in the Post-Genomic Age The American Journal of Bioethics Volume 15, 2015 – Issue 10 pages W4-W5 DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2015.1067339 Nathan Nobis, Associate Professor of Philosophy Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia In 2005 the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the drug…

  • The African American Museum chooses ‘Loving’ for its first film screening The Washington Post 2016-10-25 Helena Andrews-Dyer Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga, stars of “Loving,” attend the premiere of the film on Thursday in Beverly Hills. (Chris Pizzello/Invision via Associated Press) Just one month after opening its doors, the National Museum of African American History and Culture is…

  • I had the pleasure of sitting down with Dr. Bryce Henson who recently defended his dissertation Rediasporizing Bahia: The Lived Experiences of Blackness and the Cultural Politics of Bahian Hip-Hop at the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In the following interview, which has been edited for clarity, structure, and brevity,…

  • The pioneer black manager who became Don Revie’s ‘superspy’ The Telegraph 2016-10-20 Jim White Tony Collins became England’s first black manager at Rochdale in 1960 Credit: Jon Super for The Telegraph When he managed Rochdale back in the early Sixties, Tony Collins earned £1,500 a year. Fifty-four years on, as he sits reminiscing in a…

  • Tony Collins, Football Master Spy Book Guild Publishing Ltd 2016-10-27 270 pages Paperback ISBN: 9781910878934 Quentin Cope & Sarita Collins The English Football League’s First Black Manager This is the story of the English football league’s first black manager. Tony Collins was a young man, born into disadvantaged circumstances, in a time period between two…

  • Congress Should Tell the OMB to Stop Dividing the Country The Heritage Foundation Issue Brief #4614 on Office Of Management And Budget 2016-10-11 Mike Gonzalez, Senior Fellow The Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy On the first day of Congress’s recess, the Obama Administration recommended the most sweeping changes…

  • A U.S. Census proposal to add category for people of Middle Eastern descent makes some uneasy The Washington Post 2016-10-21 Tara Bahrampour For the first time in four decades, the federal government is poised to add a new ethnic category to the U.S. census form, adding a box for people of Middle Eastern and North…

  • Reevaluation of the Influence of Appearance and Reflected Appraisals for Mixed-Race Identity: The Role of Consistent Inconsistent Racial Perception Sociology of Race and Ethnicity October 2016, Volume 2, Number 4 pages 569-583 DOI: 10.1177/2332649216634740 Jennifer Patrice Sims, Adjunct Visiting Professor of Sociology University of Wisconsin, River Falls Developed from Cooley’s looking-glass self, the theory of…

  • Helping mixed heritage children develop ‘character and resilience’ in schools Improving Schools November 2016, Volume 19, Number 3 pages 197-211 DOI: 10.1177/1365480216650311 Kirstin Lewis Educational Studies Goldsmiths, University of London Recent UK government policy suggests that all schools have a key role to play in building ‘character and resilience’ in children. This article draws on…

  • Creative Self-Studio: Social Justice Storytelling DePaul University Student Center (Lincoln Park) Room 120 AB 2250 N Sheffield Avenue Chicago, Illinois Tuesday, 2016-10-25 09:40-11:10 CDT (Local Time) Aisha Fukushima will discuss the role of the emcee in hip-hop culture as a story-teller and learn how hip hop story-telling can be used to critically explore questions of identity, inequality and…