Center for Race and Ethnicity
at Rutgers University The Center's recent roundtable, Hispanic Identities in the New Millennium, generated a thought-provoking conversation about the changing demographics of Latino populations, the complexities of Hispanic identities, stereotypes about Latino sexuality and health behavior, and how funding pressures and social science paradigms reinforce and challenge categories of identity. For a summary of the event and a growing list of related resources, click here.
Director Keith Wailoo was recently elected to the Institute of Medicine, one of four learned academies that advise the government on scientific matters. He is one of 65 new members of the Institute of Medicine (IOM). Like the other three national academies – the National Academy of Sciences, the National Research Council, and the National Academy of Engineering – the IOM is a national resource for independent, scientifically informed analysis and recommendations on issues relating to human health. Its members are frequently called upon to advise the federal government to shape policies affecting medical care and public health. In 2005 and 2006, Wailoo served on an IOM Committee on Increasing Rates of Organ Donation, contributing to its final report, Organ Donation: Opportunities for Action.
"Envisioning a Better Mississippi: Hurricane Katrina and Mississippi one Year Later." A New Report released by the Initiative for Regional and Community Transformation (Executive Director, Roland Anglin), and commissioned by the Mississippi Conference of the NAACP. A study of what has been accomplished in the time since Katrina, the significant challenges remaining in compensation for loss property, and how the slow pace of rebuilding rental housing threatens to prolong recovery. (With contributors from a wide variety of authors and institutions including the Brookings Institution and the Enterprise Corporation of the Delta, the report was featured in newspapers from the USA Today, to the Chicago Tribune and other local and regional media.)
Recent article by Associate Director Mia Bay, "In Search of Sally Hemings in the Post-DNA Era" (Reviews in American History 34:4, December 2006), discussed in Inside Higher Ed.
The Sunday, February 25, 2007 issue of the Raleigh News and Observer featured an editorial, "The Consequential Case of Jessica Santillan," by Director Keith Wailoo.
N.J. Communities Debate the Use of the N-Word, on NPR.
