Tag: Newsweek

  • 5 Years After Muslim Ban, Middle Eastern and North African Americans Remain Hidden | Opinion Newsweek 2022-02-08 Neda Maghbouleh, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Toronto René D. Flores, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Chicago Ariela Schachter, Assistant Professor of Sociology​; Faculty Affiliate in Asian American Studies Washington University in St. Louis,…

  • ‘People Assume I’m White. This is The Racism I See’ Newsweek 2021-10-14 Nikki Barthelmess Nikki Barthelmess’ parents were Mexican American and Jewish, but people often assume she is white, not Mexican American. Nikki Barthelmess A few months ago, I answered a knock at my door. My neighbor, James*, launched into a complaint. “That silver Honda…

  • With cries for racial justice and police reform gripping the nation, we know Harris’ Blackness matters to a Democratic ticket led by a white male septuagenarian—but so does her Asian identity.

  • Research supporting the prior, simpler conclusion was skewed by Eurocentrism. Because it focused almost exclusively on Northern Eurasian populations from higher latitudes, the data missed a huge swath of the globe. Now, scientists have factored in people of color living in lower latitudes—and found that the prevailing theory is wrong.

  • Review: In New Biopic ‘Barry,’ The Real Obama Remains Hidden Newsweek 2016-12-16 Tom Shone While President Barack Obama decides on his future—a return to his roots as a community organizer? A de facto leader for the Trump resistance? More writing?—pop culture has stepped in to give him the Mount Rushmore treatment. First we had Southside…

  • How ‘Barry’ Gets Obama Right—And Wrong Newsweek 2016-12-21 Matthew Cooper, Political Editor President Barack Obama during a White House news conference in Washington, December 16. A new Netflix production, “Barry,” charts his college years in New York, when “Barry,” as he was known, wrestled with his racial identity. JONATHAN ERNST/REUTERS There’s less than a month…

  • The Racial Discrimination Embedded in Modern Medicine Newsweek 2015-10-20 Lindsey Konkel Minutes separated Are’Yana Hill from death as she struggled to breathe in the hallway of her San Francisco high school. The 18-year-old had lived with asthma attacks since before she could talk, and on that day, in April 2014, she could not speak. She…

  • There Is No Such Thing as Race Newsweek 2014-11-08 Robert Wald Sussman, Professor of Physical Anthropology Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri In 1950, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) issued a statement asserting that all humans belong to the same species and that “race” is not a biological reality but a myth.…

  • The Hypervisible Man: Obama as the First Black, Mixed-Race, Asian American and now Gay President Mixed Dreams: towards a radical multiracial/ethnic movement 2012-05-24 Nicole Asong Nfonoyim “I have always sensed that he [Obama] intuitively understands gays and our predicament—because it so mirrors his own. And he knows how the love and sacrifice of marriage can…

  • Beyond Just Black and White: Why I was so eager to claim my biracial son for my own side Newsweek.com 2009-01-24 Raina Kelley, Weekly Columnist When I took my newly born son from the nurse’s arms, I did the expected counting of his fingers and toes. I checked under his cap for hair and flexed…