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Challenging the border patrol, human rights and persistent inequalities: An ethnography of struggle in South Texas in the journal Latino Studies - Spring 2010, Article by Angela C. Stuesse, Postdoctoral Researcher

What's "Justice and Dignity" Got to Do with It?: Migrant Vulnerability, Corporate Complicity, and the State in the Society for Applied Anthropology's journal Human Organization - Spring 2010
Article by Angela Stuesse, Postdoctoral Researcher

Tailoring job relief to America's diverse communities on Washington Post - Mar. 2, 2010, john powell’s op-ed addressing the racial disparities in unemployment and the recovery

The Housing Crisis: How Did We Get Here? Where Do We Go? on Shelter Force - Fall/Winter 2009, Book review by john powell and Jason Reece

EDITORIAL: Obama’s speech addressed several categories of people and communities except race and ethnicity by Andrew Grant-Thomas, Deputy Director, featured on Race-Talk - Jan. 28, 2010

Kirwan Maps Lead to $5 Million Affordable Rental Housing Loan Allocation
As a follow-up to Kirwan's mapping work in the state of Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Housing Partnership has committed $5 million in zero percent interest, second-mortgage financing to support the development of affordable rental housing in suburban and high-opportunity communities. This financial boost will ensure that communities have increased housing options, stabilized neighborhoods, and an increase in affordable rentals for families in the midst of a very difficult economic time. Working in collaboration with the Massachusetts legal community, the Kirwan Institute provided an analysis of low-income groups and ethnic populations in relationship to geographic areas of high opportunity.
(Link to MHP News article)

Looking at the undocumented immigration story from a different perspective is an article by Kirwan Institute Deputy Director Andrew Grant-Thomas, “Amor de Lejos: Who’s Telling Immigration’s Human Story?” published on RaceWire on Sep. 16, 2009.

Black to brown: The changing face of New Orleans, by Andrew Grant-Thomas, Deputy Director at the Kirwan Institute, carried by The Grio on Aug. 28, 2009.

Race has everything to do with it, by Marguerite Hattouni Spencer, senior researcher at Kirwan, was featured on The Grio on Aug. 21, 2009.
The article says policymakers should understand that race is not a distraction, but a serious aspect of all the “real” problems.

Minority death match: Jews, blacks, and the “post-racial” presidency
john powell discussed Kirwan’s “Fair Recovery” project, related to race and the economic recovery, in the September issue of Harpers Magazine. (Page 66)

Race as a Distraction
by Marguerite Hattouni Spencer, senior researcher at the Kirwan Institute, Aug. 18, 2009

Racial Profiling – Not Just for Middle-aged Elite University Professors Any More!
by Andrew Grant-Thomas, Deputy Director at the Kirwan Institute, carried by Imagine2050 - Aug. 11, 2009

Commentary: When Will Recovery Hit Black Neighborhoods?
john powell discusses the role of race in the recession and the recovery with Essence.com - Aug. 10, 2009

Racial Profiling Goes Deeper Than Gates Case
by Andrew Grant-Thomas, Deputy Director at the Kirwan Institute, featured on WOSU Radio - July 30, 2009

Will Economic Recovery Reach Black Neighborhoods?
by john powell, executive director of the Kirwan Institute, a commentary on stimulus spending allocation, was published on The Grio - July 14, 2009

Questions of racism also framed past hearings
an op-ed on The Grio by Stephen Menendian, senior legal research associate at Kirwan and Brookes Hammock, legal intern - July 15, 2009

Sotomayor Hearings Are Opportunity to Shift Discourse On Race
by the same authors was carried by RaceWire - July 13th, 2009

A Regrettable Misunderstanding
by Andrew Grant-Thomas, Deputy Director at the Kirwan Institute, carried by Imagine2050 - July 14, 2009

Iran vs. Honduras: The Hypocrisy of the Mainstream Media
an article on RaceWire by Elsadig Elsheikh, research associate with the Kirwan Institute’s international program - July 3, 2009

The Poverty Artist
by Andrew Grant-Thomas, Deputy Director at the Kirwan Institute, featured on WOSU Radio - June 30, 2009

On the Continuing Significance of Race: People’s Exhibit #373
by Andrew Grant-Thomas, Deputy Director at the Kirwan Institute, featured on imagine2050.org - June 5, 2009

Digest - Race and the Presidential Election

Saturday, May 23, 2009, at 4:30 p.m., CSPAN’s Booktv interviewed Hasan Jeffries, Assistant Professor of History with a joint appointment at the Kirwan Institute, about his upcoming book, Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt, a look at civil rights reform of the 1960s. (Watch now)

Torture Paintings
by Elsadig Elsheikh, Research Associate at the Kirwan Institute, featured on RaceWire, The ColorLines Blog - May 29, 2009

Are You Poor? There’ll Be An Extra Charge for That
by Andrew Grant-Thomas, Deputy Director at the Kirwan Institute, featured on RaceWire, The ColorLines Blog - May 27, 2009

Ohio's Death Penalty - Not Exactly Arbitrary
by Andrew Grant-Thomas, Deputy Director at the Kirwan Institute, featured on WOSU Radio - May 25, 2009

A Note from Stephen Menendian, Senior Legal Research Associate:
"What is a Racial Classification? Confusion in the Court: A Short Analysis of Ricci v. Destafano Oral Argument"

The Durban Review Conference: Hopefully More Than Words
The Durban Review Conference, the world conference on racism, took place the week of April 20, with many fewer participants than initially expected. Joining the United States, Israel, Canada, Italy, and Australia in announcing boycotts one weekend before the start of the Conference were Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, and Sweden. (read more ...)

Post-Racialism or Targeted Universalism? (pdf file) john a. powell (February 2009)

The Root carried the following article by john powell Apr. 6, 2009:
Why the U.S. Must Go to the Race Conference
If President Obama is serious about advancing a positive vision of our nation as a partner in the world, he must go to the World Conference Against Racism.

Opportunity for All conference 2009 features Kirwan Institute's work
Read Reflections on "Opportunity for All" conference - BT Irwan Blog

Kirwan Statement on Senator Obama's Victory - Nov. 6, 2008
Outlook for an Obama Presidency: Video analysis by john powell, Executive Director

Indexing Race in the US at the Dawn of the “Age of Obama”
Andrew Grant-Thomas, Deputy Director at the Kirwan Institute, was featured as a guest columnist on RaceWire Jan. 27, 2009

"A Referendum on Race" - Read an article by Andrew Grant-Thomas in ColorLines e-magazine

A Vote to Change the World, NYU Press blog by Hasan Kwame Jeffries