Day: September 3, 2015

  • The Time of the Multiracial American Literary History Volume 27, Number 3, Fall 2015 pages 549-556 DOI: 10.1093/alh/ajv026 Habiba Ibrahim, Associate Professor of English University of Washington, Seattle Habiba Ibrahim is the author of  Troubling the Family: The Promise of Personhood and the Rise of Multiracialism (2012). Her current book project, Oceanic Lifespans, examines how…

  • Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama: The Price and Promise of Citizenship University of South Carolina Press June 2015 224 pages 6 x 9 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-61117-531-8 eBook ISBN: 978-1-61117-532-5 Robert E. Terrill, Associate Professor Department of Communication & Culture Indiana University, Bloomington An examination of President Obama’s oratory as a reflection of the…

  • In Search of the Black Mozart BBC Radio 4 2015-07-19 and 2015-07-26 Sarah Taylor, Producer Historian Steve Martin and Double Bassist Chi-chi Nwanoku Chi-chi Nwanoku has spent her career travelling and performing in concert halls the world over as the principal double bassist of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. More recently, she’s been…

  • Chineke! Europe’s first professional orchestra of black and minority ethnic musicians launches The Independent 2015-09-02 Jessica Duchen Its founder double-bassist Chi-chi Nwanoku talks to Jessica Duchen When the Chineke! Orchestra steps on to the Queen Elizabeth Hall platform on 13 September, the audience should notice something unusual. One of those uncomfortable truths about classical music…

  • Barack Obama and the Third Wave: the syntaxes of whiteness and articulating difference in the post-identity era Politics, Groups, and Identities Volume 2, Issue 4, 2014 pages 573-588 DOI: 10.1080/21565503.2014.969739 Melanye T. Price, Assistant Professor Africana Studies and Political Science Departments Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Emerging critiques of Third Wave Feminism and…

  • Victoria Bynum to speak on the “Free State of Jones” at the Lauren Rogers Museum “Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection” (2015-09-06 through 2015-11-15) Lauren Rogers Museum of Art 565 N. Fifth Avenue Laurel, Mississippi 39440 2015-09-10, 17:30 CDT (Local Time) Vikki Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos I’m…