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  • Joe Biden Just Made History and Picked Kamala Harris as His VP Candidate

    Former Vice President Joe Biden has officially selected Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) as his running mate, and in doing so has made history, as Harris will be the first Black woman on a major party’s presidential ticket.

  • Thinking Relationally about Race, Blackness and Indigeneity in Australia: Reflecting upon ACRAWSA’s Symposium

    Opening the symposium, Irene Watson made central to her keynote ‘Thinking Relationally about Race, Blackness and Indigeneity in Australia’ this linkage between the State and survival. The survival of the Australian State requires that Indigenous people do not survive; thus it has always required genocide; it has always demanded the erasure of Aboriginal and Torres…

  • Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study

    Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study Macmillan Ninth Edition 2014 732 pages Paper Text ISBN-10: 1-4292-4217-5; ISBN-13: 978-1-4292-4217-2 Paula S. Rothenberg, Senior Fellow; The Murphy Institute, City University of New York Professor Emerita; William Patterson University of New Jersey Like no other text, this best-selling anthology effectively introduces students to…

  • Race, Identity and Citizenship: A Reader

    This comprehensive and timely reader covers the range of topics that have been at the center of these debates including critical race theory, multiracial feminism, mixed race, whiteness, citizenship and globalization.

  • SOCI 395-005: Plessy to Martin: Race and Politics

    SOCI 395-005: Plessy to Martin: Race and Politics George Mason University Fairfax, Virginia Fall 2013 Rutledge M. Dennis, Professor of Sociology This course examines the issues, individuals, and groups central to the intersectionality of race, culture, and politics in American life. We will begin with the landmark Plessy v. Ferguson case which solidified and legitimized…

  • Leo Branton Jr., Activists’ Lawyer, Dies at 91

    Leo Branton Jr., Activists’ Lawyer, Dies at 91 The New York Times 2013-04-27 William Yardley Associated Press Leo Branton Jr. with Angela Davis during her 1972 trial on murder, kidnapping and conspiracy charges. She was acquitted. Leo Branton Jr., a California lawyer whose moving closing argument in a racially and politically charged murder trial in…

  • PHIL 539: Critical Philosophy of Race

    PHIL 539: Critical Philosophy of Race Pennsylvania State University Summer 2012 The study of philosophical issues raised by racism and by the concept of race and other related concepts. This course provides an intensive examination of a major area of philosophical research: the philosophical examination of racism and of our thinking about race. It will…

  • The Commoditization of Hybridity in the 1990s U.S. Fashion Advertising: Who Is cK one?

    The Commoditization of Hybridity in the 1990s U.S. Fashion Advertising: Who Is cK one? in Beyond the Frame: Women of Color and Visual Representation Palgrave MacMillan September 2005 272 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-6533-2, ISBN10: 1-4039-6533-1 Edited by Neferti X. M. Tadiar, Professor of Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Barnard…

  • Reflections: An Anthology of African-American Philosophy, 1st Edition

    Reflections: An Anthology of African-American Philosophy, 1st Edition Cengage Learning 2000 464 pages Paperback ISBN-10: 0534573932  ISBN-13: 9780534573935 Edited by: James Montmarquet, Professor of Philosophy Tennessee State University William Hardy, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion Tennessee State University This anthology provides the instructor with a sufficient quantity, breadth, and diversity of materials to be…