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  • Refusing to Identify by Race

    Refusing to Identify by Race The New York Times 2013-07-11 Carlos Hoyt Andover, Massachusetts Re “Has ‘Caucasian’ Lost Its Meaning?” (news analysis, Sunday Review, July 7 [2013]): I recently completed a doctoral study at the Simmons School of Social Work about people who are commonly ascribed to the black/African-American, biracial or multiracial categories, but who…

  • Has ‘Caucasian’ Lost Its Meaning?

    Has ‘Caucasian’ Lost Its Meaning? The New York Times 2013-07-06 Shaila Dewan, Economics Reporter gray318 As a racial classification, the term Caucasian has many flaws, dating as it does from a time when the study of race was based on skull measurements and travel diaries. It has long been entirely unmoored from its geographical reference…

  • ‘White House Down’ and Black Presidents on Screen

    ‘White House Down’ and Black Presidents on Screen The New York Times 2013-06-26 Mekado Murphy At one point in the action thriller “White House Down,” which opens June 28, the president of the United States, played by Jamie Foxx, is trying to thwart a paramilitary group that has overtaken the White House. After swapping his…

  • A Nation of Mutts

    A Nation of Mutts The New York Times 2013-06-28 David Brooks Over the past few decades, American society has been transformed in a fit of absence of mind. First, we’ve gone from a low immigrant nation to a high immigrant nation. If you grew up between 1950 and 1985, you grew up at a time…

  • Rare Visit Underscores Tangles in Obama’s Ties to Africa

    Rare Visit Underscores Tangles in Obama’s Ties to Africa The New York Times 2013-06-26 Michael D. Shear, Nicholas Kulish and Lydia Polgreen DAKAR, Senegal — As a freshman senator from Illinois, Barack Obama told a packed auditorium in Kenya’s capital, “I want you all to know that as your ally, your friend and your brother,…

  • When Cars Assume Ethnic Identities

    When Cars Assume Ethnic Identities The New York Times 2013-06-21 Glenn Collins Coming to a showroom near you for 2014: the first sport utility vehicle in its class equipped with a 9-speed automatic transmission. It’s also the first to offer a parallel-parking feature. And, in 4-wheel-drive models, the rear axle disconnects automatically, for fuel efficiency.…

  • Is Interracial Marriage Still Scandalous?

    Is Interracial Marriage Still Scandalous? Room For Debate The New York Times 2013-06-13 Kevin Noble Maillard, Professor of Law Syracuse University Gary B. Nash, Professor Emeritus of History University of California, Los Angeles Heidi W. Durrow, Author and Co-Founder Mixed Roots Film and Literary Festival Diane Farr, Actress and Writer Rose Cuison Villazor, Professor of…

  • Prodigy and Prejudice

    Prodigy and Prejudice The New York Times 1995-12-10 Phyllis Rose Composition in Black and White: The Life of Philippa Schuyler. By Kathryn Talalay. Illustrated. 317 pp. New York: Oxford University Press This enthralling, heartbreaking book restores to attention Philippa Schuyler, child prodigy of the 1930’s, pianist, composer, Harlem’s Mozart, “the Shirley Temple of American Negroes.”…

  • 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…

  • Louisiana Repeals Black Blood Law

    Louisiana Repeals Black Blood Law The New York Times 1983-07-06 Frances Frank Marcus, Special to the New York Times NEW ORLEANS, July 5—  Gov. David C. Treen today signed legislation repealing a Louisiana statute that established a mathematical formula to determine if a person was black. The law establishing the formula, passed by state legislators…