Day: January 10, 2016

  • Why I’m Over The White-Washing Of ‘The Bachelor’ Every Season Elite Daily 2016-01-05 KiMi Robinson Los Angeles, California I just cyber-stalked my ex and his new flings — except I never dated the guy, nor will I ever have that opportunity. In other words, I went through all 28 contestant’s profiles from the upcoming season…

  • A note on race and racism Medium 2016-01-08 T.O. Molefe This week in South Africa has made it clear there are many people who have a limited understanding of race and racism — two very different things. Either that or they are working with different definitions (and moral theories) and don’t know it, or lack the diligence…

  • How Our February Cover Star Amandla Stenberg Learned to Love Her Blackness Teen Vogue 2016-01-07 Solange Knowles Edited by Elaine Welteroth Photograph by Ben Toms She tells all to Solange Knowles in our latest issue. I have a confession to make: I didn’t prepare for my interview with Amandla Stenberg. Though we had never met,…

  • Counseling the Culturally Diverse: Theory and Practice, 7th Edition Wiley December 2015 832 pages 7.2 x 1.7 x 9.6 inches Hardcover ISBN-13: 978-1119084303 Derald Wing Sue, Professor of Psychology and Education Department of Counseling and Clinical Psychology Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, New York David Sue, Professor Emeritus of Psychology Western Washington University, Bellingham,…

  • Multiracial in a Monoracial World: Interaciality Informing Academic Work University of Michigan Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery (Room 100) 913 S University Ave Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 2015-10-26 Martha Jones, Prof. of History and Afroamerican & African Studies, co-director of the Michigan Law Program in Race, Law & History. Dr. Jones’ scholarly interests include the history…

  • The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome Beacon Press 2016-01-12 216pages 6 x 9 Inches Cloth ISBN: 978-080703301-2 Alondra Nelson, Dean of Social Science; Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies Columbia University, New York, New York The unexpected story of how genetic testing is affecting race in America We know…

  • The US presidency was not designed for a man of Obama’s racial background. Instead, it was conceived by and for White males, particularly privileged Christian, heterosexual White males. Hence, how might it feel to be the first African-American commander in chief of an imperial and White hegemonic state? Only Obama can answer this question. Only…

  • Blackness didn’t originate with my ancestors’ feelings about how they wanted to self-identify. It was created over a period of centuries through very specific, deliberate constructions in European and white American schools of biology, phrenology, philosophy, anthropology, and political and legal systems to uphold the intrinsic superiority of whiteness and corresponding black inferiority. Malaika Jabali,…

  • The Free State of Jones Movie to be released May 13, 2016 Renegade South: Histories of Unconventional Southerners 2016-01-05 Vikki Bynum, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History Texas State University, San Marcos The Free State of Jones Movie poster Victoria E. Bynum is author of the book The Free State of Jones, Movie Edition: Mississippi’s Longest…

  • This book critically examines Obama’s presidency and legacy, especially in regard to race, inequality, education, and political power.