Charity Marks and her children are another example of how my people have crossed racial boundaries ( Read more... )

When I think about how to understand my racial identity, it gets so complicated as to defy definition.

According to the U.S. Department of Labor, I'm classified as "white," because they define that category to include people from North Africa and the Middle East. As a Sicilian, I look to my North African Berber and Arab heritage as much as I do to ( Read more... )

When I worked at the International Islamic University, I moonlighted as a copy editor for the university press. This brought me into contact with a historian from Kyrgyzstan (I wish I could remember his name), whose articles I edited; we had several discussions about Central Asian history ( Read more... )

Nov. 5, 2008 ( Read more... )

AREA ACTIVISTS TO CONFRONT AND DISRUPT RACIST AMERICAN RENAISSANCE CONFERENCE ( Read more... )

Gender is just as compelling an issue as race, just as big, which is why this Democratic primary campaign is so sickeningly fascinating. I don't want the two great Democratic issues bases to become split from one another... but maybe it's necessary to have them work out their issues in public together, this is our first look at a post-Bush world on ( Read more... )