Tag: The Huffington Post

  • Raven-Symoné, Oprah, and What it Means to be (African) American The Huffington Post Black Voices 2014-10-13 A. B. Wilkinson, Assistant Professor of History University of Nevada, Las Vegas Last week entertainer Raven-Symoné appeared on Oprah: Where Are They Now? and proudly stated that she was in “an amazing, happy relationship” with a woman, yet what…

  • The Privilege of White Hispanic: Leaving Out the Rest Latino Voices The Huffington Post 2014-09-09 César Vargas, Writer, director, activist People talk so much about Latinos denying their Blackness, but bring up the term “white Latino” and you will see an extreme reaction, visceral attack from white Latinos themselves. Tactics such as (and I’m pretty…

  • Light-Skinned Latinos Tend To Vote More Republican. Be Careful How You Interpret That. Latino Voices The Huffington Post 2014-09-18 Roque Planas, Editor Lighter-skinned Latinos are more likely to vote Republican, according to polling data analyzed by the Washington Post. The data highlights rarely recognized racial divisions within the Latino community that have perplexed the U.S.…

  • Black In The Dominican Republic: Denying Blackness HuffPost Live The Huffington Post 2014-06-10 Marc Lamont Hill, Host In Latin America and Caribbean countries like the Dominican Republic many deny being of African decent, despite 90 percent of the population possessing black ancestry. Where has the blackness gone in the region? Guests: Biany Perez (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)…

  • Are Latinos Really Turning White? Latino Voices The Huffington Post 2014-05-29 Manuel Pastor, Professor of Sociology and American Studies University of Southern California Writing for The New York Times, Nate Cohn recently reported that more Hispanics are identifying as white. The piece—which even includes a cute graphic in which a (presumably Latino) man steps from…

  • The words “Latino” and “Hispanic” do not refer to a race—they refer to a multiracial ethnicity composed primarily of indigenous, European and African peoples and, most commonly, people of mixed race. In Latin America, there’s lots of different ways to describe people of mixed race—mestizo (mixed European and indigenous heritage) and mulato (mixed European and…

  • The Census Can’t Fit Latinos Into A Race Box And It’s Causing More Confusion The Huffington Post 2014-05-22 Roque Planas, Editor Pew revealed the findings of a study this month that shows some 2.5 million U.S. Latinos changed their race category from “some other race” to “white” between the 2000 and 2010 censuses. The news…

  • Stunning Self-Portraits Make You Think Twice About Interracial Identity In South America The Huffington Post 2014-04-25 Katherine Brooks, Arts & Culture Editor Brazilian artist Adriana Varejão has been exploring themes of interracial identity through an unlikely medium—self-portraits. To confront and challenge concepts like colonialism and miscegenation in her home country, she turns her own visage…

  • When it Comes to Diversity, Who Counts? The Huffington Post The Blog 2014-03-26 Martha S. Jones, Arthur F Thurnau Professor, Associate Professor of History and Afroamerican and African Studies University of Michigan When talking diversity at colleges and universities, the numbers count. Still, when it comes to mixed-race students, too often they do not count…

  • Stephen Colbert Is Confused About G. K. Butterfield’s Race In Latest ‘Better Know A District’ The Huffington Post 2014-03-25 Carol Hartsell, Senior Comedy Editor Stephen Colbert unveiled a new edition of “Better Know A District” on Monday’s show, and it was chock-full of racial misunderstandings, confusing questions and barbecue taste tests… like all of his…