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  • De Blasio Takes His Modern Family on the Campaign Trail

    De Blasio Takes His Modern Family on the Campaign Trail The New York Times 2013-08-07 Michael Barbaro As his S.U.V. sped down the West Side Highway a few days ago, 30 minutes late to a campaign stop, Bill de Blasio, a Democratic mayoral candidate, proposed a simple solution: let his wife do the talking instead…

  • Race, Color, Identity: Rethinking Discourses about ‘Jews’ in the Twenty-First Century

    Race, Color, Identity: Rethinking Discourses about ‘Jews’ in the Twenty-First Century Berghahn Books May 2013 398 pages bibliog., index Hardback ISBN: 978-0-85745-892-6 eBook ISBN: 978-0-85745-893-3 Edited by: Efraim Sicher, Professor of Comparative and English Literature Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Advances in genetics are renewing controversies over inherited characteristics, and the discourse around science and…

  • Black And Jewish And Read All Over

    Black And Jewish And Read All Over The Jewish Week 2013-07-16 Julie Wiener She may currently live on the Upper East Side, but Simone Weichselbaum, 31, remains a Brooklyn girl. Raised in Williamsburg and Crown Heights by her Ashkenazi Jewish dad (who freelances for The Jewish Week) and Jamaican mom, Weichselbaum, a Park East Day…

  • New York’s Mixed-Race Riot

    New York’s Mixed-Race Riot The New York Times 2013-07-15 Lisa Orr, Professor of English Utica College, Utica, New York When draft rioters set fire to the Colored Orphan Asylum in New York on the night of July 13, 1863, one man in the crowd called out, “If there is a man among you with a…

  • Negro-White Marriages Here Show Rise Despite Problems of Prejudice

    Negro-White Marriages Here Show Rise Despite Problems of Prejudice The New York Times 1963-10-18 Fred Powledge Marriages between Negroes and whites have been increasing in New York and have become a poignant part of the life of the city. The precise number of such marriages may never be known. Documents on file at the City…

  • A Pickpocket’s Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York

    In George Appo’s world, child pickpockets swarmed the crowded streets, addicts drifted in furtive opium dens, and expert swindlers worked the lucrative green-goods game. On a good night Appo made as much as a skilled laborer made in a year.

  • Genetic Background of Patients from a University Medical Center in Manhattan: Implications for Personalized Medicine

    Genetic Background of Patients from a University Medical Center in Manhattan: Implications for Personalized Medicine PLoS ONE: A peer-reviewed, open access journal Volume 6, Number 5 (2011-05-04) 11 pages DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019166 Bamidele O. Tayo Department of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, Illinois Marie Teil Charles R. Bronfman Institute…

  • Let that tinge once become general, and then “farewell, a long farewell to all our whiteness!”

    The question of course which naturally suggests itself to every right-minded white man and woman, is. Where is this thing to end? Whither are we tending? What is to be done to stop this most unnatural and detestable movement. For it is as plain as a pikestaff that if it continues, there will be soon…

  • What Are We Coming To, and When Shall We Reach It?

    The pressure on our space of other matter has prevented us from recurring to the serious and important topic of “Miscegenation.” We regret very much, however, having allowed our attention to be even temporarily diverted from it, as we find from the earnest discussion which it is receiving at the hands of our cotemporaries, that…

  • Multiracial Children – How Racial Identities Develop

    Multiracial Children – How Racial Identities Develop City Families: Helping New Yorkers Adopt New York’s Children The Vincent J. Fontanta Center 27 Christopher Street New York, New York 10011 2012-10-26, 18:00-20:00 EDT (Local Time)   Have you ever wondered about how children from multiracial backgrounds develop their racial identity?  Please join us in welcoming Dr. Ricia…