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Race and Racism Around the World We welcome submissions on issues dealing with race and racism from users worldwide. We are particularly interested in highlighting some of the experiences and stories revolving around these themes. To submit your materials, please register.
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Sunday, 13 April 2008 |
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The study was made possible when he allowed his genome - the map of all his genes - to be published on the internet in the interests of science. "This level is what you would expect in someone who had a great-grandparent who was African," said Kari Stefansson of deCODE Genetics, whose company carried out the analysis. "It was very surprising to get this result for Jim." |
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Wednesday, 02 January 2008 |
In the United States African born blacks and their offspring exceed American born whites in many socio-economic indicators (particularly in the areas educational attainment and occupational status) in ways that resemble the gaps observed between native born white and black Americans in those same indicators (Charles, 2007; Le, 2007; Le, 2007; US Census Bureau, Census 2000. "5% Public Use Microdata Sample.")
Something else to note, according to the New York Times (Roberts, 2005), for the first time in history more blacks are coming to the United States from Africa than during the slave trade. Immigration figures show that since 1990 more Africans have arrived voluntarily than the total who disembarked in chains before the United States outlawed international slave trafficking in 1807. In other words: black African achievement can not simply be dismissed as that of a “small group” of elites entirely unrepresentative of the greater continent. Moreover, the academic attainment and occupational achievements of African blacks have been documented in the UK (Li and Heath, 2006; Dustmann, Theodoropoulos, 2006) as well as in Canada (Guppy and Davies, 1998; Boyd, 2002). |
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Friday, 26 October 2007 |
Charles O. Ogindo filed the civil lawsuit in state Supreme Court in May seeking $200 million in compensatory damages and $2 million in punitive damages and attorney's fees. He is suing Binghamton University; his former adviser, Professor John J. Eisch; former chemistry department Chairman David C. Doetschman; Director of Graduate Studies Wayne E. Jones Jr.; and chemistry department Chairman Alistair J. Lees. T. Ogindo, 39, entered BU's doctoral program in 2004 after passing his course work, cumulative and oral exams, and submitting his dissertation prospectus, he said. With a timetable of defending his dissertation in December 2005, Ogindo said, he planned to receive his Ph.D. in 2006. But he never graduated.
Instead, he claims the results of two experiments he implemented -- including one that was the crux of his dissertation -- were published by his adviser, Eisch, without including Ogindo as a co-author. Eisch is a distinguished professor of organic chemistry who has been at BU since 1972. Ogindo said he was then denied the opportunity to defend his dissertation for dubious reasons, which has left his academic and professional future in limbo. |
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Sunday, 21 October 2007 |
Prof Watson attracted a deluge of criticism for his comments in a Sunday Times interview, reportedly saying he was "inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa" because "all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours - whereas all the testing says not really". He was quoted as saying he hoped everyone was equal, but that "people who have to deal with black employees find this is not true".
Britain's most senior black MP, the skills minister, David Lammy, said the 79-year-old scientist's comments were "deeply offensive" and would "succeed only in providing oxygen for the BNP". |
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Sunday, 21 October 2007 |
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"Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory does not engage in any research that could even form the basis of the statements attributed to Dr Watson," the institute's president, Bruce Stillman, said. Dr Watson's comments were entirely his own and "in no way reflect the mission, goals, or principles of [the laboratory's] board, administration or faculty". |
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Sunday, 21 October 2007 |
Neourobiologist Prof Steven Rose of the Open University, a founder member of the Society for Social Responsibility in Science, said such “racist” comments were also “genetic nonsense”. “He should recognise that statements of this sort have racist functions and are to be deeply, deeply regretted,” he said. “Making statements of that sort is certainly a great day for the British National Party but it’s a sad day for scientists and racial harmony.”
Koku Adomdza, director of the black equality pressure group The 1990 Trust, labelled Dr Watson a “complete dinosaur” and pressed him to apologise to “Africa and all people of African origin”. “His very poisonously racist opinions put students and the unsuspecting public at serious risk.” |
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Saturday, 20 October 2007 |
His views are also reflected in a book published next week, in which he writes: "There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so."
The furore echoes the controversy created in the 1990s by The Bell Curve, a book co-authored by the American political scientist Charles Murray, which suggested differences in IQ were genetic and discussed the implications of a racial divide in intelligence. The work was heavily criticised across the world, in particular by leading scientists who described it as a work of "scientific racism". |
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Sunday, 14 October 2007 |
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"There is prejudice. It is a problem and I can't go along any more with brushing it under the carpet," said Streatham's most famous export as far back as 1997. "This business is about selling, and blonde and blue-eyed girls are what sells." Saying this sort of stuff takes guts, no matter who you are; Campbell is not so much biting the hand that feeds as ripping it off at the wrist. |
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Friday, 05 October 2007 |
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The Atlantic slave trade brought Africans to Puerto Rico in the early 1500s. Some of the first slave rebellions took place on the island of Puerto Rico. Until 1846, Africanos on the island had to carry a libreta to move around the island, like the passbook system in apartheid South Africa. In Puerto Rico, you will find large communities of descendants of the Yoruba, Bambara, Wolof and Mandingo people. Puerto Rican culture is inherently African culture. |
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