BOOK REVIEW | White Rebels in Black: German Appropriation of Black Culture

Book Review: Erica Chito Childs,Fade to Black and White: Interracial Images in Popular Culture

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These ruminations are based on based on UTR 25 (Unicode and Mathematics), revision 7, section 2.11 (Geometric Shapes) in particular. The conclusions are-(i) a plea for more consistency when naming characters; (ii) a request that characters based on abstract shapes should have some indicator of the size of the character relative to the rest of the font; (iii) that the code chart entry for U+2023...

Culture and beliefs about time: comparisons among black Americans, black Africans, and white Americans.

The authors investigated the extent to which racial factors, cultural factors, or both influence a person's beliefs about physical time, personal time, and experienced and remembered duration. A total of 750 Black American, Black African, and White American students responded to a questionnaire on these beliefs about time. Factor analysis was used to compare belief structures. Pairwise comparis...

Black-white mortality inequalities*

Racial inequality, particularly between blacks and whites, long has been of major concern in the United States. This inequality may take a number of forms, for example, with regard to schooling, housing, health, employment options, and income. In this paper we estimate how much of the ‘observed’ racial inequality in age-specific death rates in the Retirement History Survey can be attributed to ...

Black&white Nim games

We present a new family of Nim games where the rules depend on a given ‘coloring’ of the tokens, each token being either black or white. The rules are as in Nim with the restriction that a white token on top of each heap is not allowed. We resolve the winning strategies of two disjoint game families played on two heaps. The heap-sizes with black tokens correspond to the numbers ⌊βn⌋, where β > ...