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Caribbean American Law Professor “Karened” at Historic Black Pool in Fort Lauderdale By Vonnie Lee July 22, 2020 Caribbean American law professor Ghenete “G” Wright Muir and her son Masai, both members of the U.S. Masters Swimming Club, were the victims of racial profiling on Sunday at a swimming pool in the historically Black Joseph C. Carter Park in Fort Lauderdale. Wright Muir told CNW a white woman—later identified as Lani Kempner, a former professor at Broward College—who was swimming in the lane between Wright Muir and her son, told her she couldn’t talk across her lane. Wright Muir said when she pushed back, stating the lifeguard said there was no rule to support her request, and offered to switch lanes, Kempner refused and demanded that the park personnel call the police. According to Wright Muir, Fort Lauderda...

Behind the Numbers: Race and Ethnicity in Latin America BY JUDITH A. MORRISON FROM ISSUE: TRADE IS BACK!, SUMMER 2015 Understanding the needs of Afro-descendant and Indigenous peoples starts with asking the right questions.  Movement of the people: Protesting police violence in Brazil. Photo: Nacho Doce/Reuters 1.3K143 Share Lines Quality data helps governments address the impact of exclusion on societies as a whole Throughout Latin America, race and ethnicity continue to be among the most important determinants of access to opportunity and economic advancement. Indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples in Latin America represent 40 percent of the total population—a sizeable share—yet they remain a disproportionate segment of the poorest of the poor. While a priority for social inclusion measures, they have not seen the sharp reductions in poverty experienced by the overall population and are still more likely than the general population to live in extreme poverty. In countries ...

La question ethnique en France lundi 21 janvier 2030 Estimation personnelle de la réalité ethnique de la France métropolitaine d'aujourd'hui D'après mes estimations  voici à quoi ressemble la répartition ethnique de la France métropolitaine d'aujourd'hui : Population de la France métropolitaine : 63.140.000 habitants (2011) Dont Blancs                                   : 52.010.000 (82,37%) (inclut français de souche, personnes d'origine  européenne, personnes originaires des Balkans et du Caucase, juifs de France peu importe leur origine) Arabes et Moyen-Orientaux :   6.460.000 (10,23%) (inclut les personnes d'origine arabe, berbère, turque, kur...

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F. James Davis is a retired professor of sociology at Illinois State University. He is the author of numerous books, including  Who is Black? One Nation's Definition  (1991), from which this excerpt was taken. Reprinted with permission of  Penn State University Press   To be considered black in the United States not even half of one's ancestry must be African black. But will one-fourth do, or one-eighth, or less? The nation's answer to the question 'Who is black?" has long been that a black is any person with  any  known African black ancestry. This definition reflects the long experience with slavery and later with Jim Crow segregation. In the South it became known as the "one-drop rule,'' meaning that a single drop of "black blood" makes a person a black. It is also known as the "one black ancestor rule," some courts have called it the "traceable amount rule," and anthropologists call it the "hypo-descent r...

Immigration and Being ‘Other’ Within the Black Family [Opinion] Although we are all Black, do differences still arise when we find that we are descended from different parts of the diaspora? by M. Michelle Derosier, September 19, 2016 AddThis Sharing Buttons Share to Print Share to Email Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to More 12 Comments Revelers march during the West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn, New York. AP / Craig Ruttle This month natives and visitors alike danced their way through the streets of Brooklyn in celebration of the annual West Indian Carnival. Scores of Caribbean immigrants proudly waved the flags of their native Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, and many others. It’s a kaleidoscope of the Black diaspora and just one story of who we are in this country. Of the New York’s 3 million foreign-born residents, non-Hispanic Caribbeans account for 19% of the pop...

Haiti All latest updates The island and the outside world Being in Haiti without being in Haiti Feb 12th 2009 | Online extra Gonaives | Labadee | Port au Prince Gonaives TRAFFIC creeps down a dusty avenue. Gonaives looks like a poor city, with a steady flow of pedestrians walking along the edges of the road, but it does not immediately seem destroyed. Then we turn a corner and find a wall of dirt halfway up the street. The bulldozers and dump trucks have cleaned the thoroughfares, and the efforts of thousands, with shovels, have begun on the smaller streets. But the empire of dirt persists. It looms over our heads and we scramble up the edge, looking now down at nearby rooftops and then around the nearest corner, where this cracked tube, like an engorged elemental boa constrictor, continues into the distance. I remember grappling with the idea of infinity when I was a boy. W...