Tag: New York Times

  • From Bang to Whimper: A Heart Drug’s Story The New York Times 2012-12-24 Abigail Zuger, M.D. Jonathan Kahn, Race in a Bottle: The Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine in a Post-Genomic Age. Columbia University Press, December 2012, 336 pages. On June 23, 2005, American medicine managed to take a small step forward and a…

  • A Rising Hockey Star With N.B.A. DNA The New York Times 2012-12-20 Jeff Z. Klein Seth Jones probably should have wound up a basketball player. He is tall, with a great vertical leap, and his father is Popeye Jones, who played 11 years in the N.B.A. and is now an assistant coach with the Nets.…

  • Where Ethnicity Was Fluid The New York Times 2012-12-29 Sam Roberts, Urban Affairs Correspondent In “Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America” (Harvard University Press, $35), Vivek Bald, who teaches writing and digital media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has produced an engaging account of a largely untold wave of immigration:…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • “Miscegenation” at the North. The Southern Banner, Athens, Georgia 1864-04-20 Page 4, column 2 Source: Athens Historic Newspapers Archive (Digital Library of Georgia as part of Georgia HomePLACE) “Miscegenation“—the new term for amalgamation, is the last and newest phase of abolitionism at the North—openly and unblushtngly avowed, and preached even from the pulpit. The New…

  • Same-Sex Issue Pushes Justices Into Overdrive The New York Times 2012-12-09 Adam Liptak, Supreme Court Correspondent In the civil rights era, the Supreme Court waited decades to weigh in on interracial marriage. On Friday, by contrast, the court did not hesitate to jump into the middle of one of the most important social controversies of…

  • Demographic Shifts Redefine What It Means to Be Korean The New York Times 2012-11-29 Choe Sang-Hun SEOUL, South Korea — Jasmine Lee realizes just how Korean she’s become when she breaks out in the language, forgetting that her Filipino mother on the other end of the phone can’t understand her. But she is reminded of…

  • Bolivia’s Census Omits ‘Mestizo’ as Category The New York Times 2012-11-21 The Associated Press LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia is under a virtual curfew as census-takers count and classify the landlocked Andean nation’s population in its first census in 11 years. Stirring controversy was the government decision not to include “mestizo” as a category…

  • Political Racism in the Age of Obama The New York Times 2012-11-10 Steven Hahn, Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of History University of Pennsylvania The white students at Ole Miss who greeted President Obama’s decisive re-election with racial slurs and nasty disruptions on Tuesday night show that the long shadows of race still…