Author: Steven

  • To Make a New Race: Gurdjieff, Toomer, and the Harlem Renaissance University Press of Mississippi 1999 202 pages Cloth: 157806130X (9781578061303) Paper: 1578061318 (9781578061310) Jon Woodson, Professor of English Howard University, Washington, D.C. Jean Toomer’s adamant stance against racism and his call for a raceless society were far more complex than the average reader of…

  • Desdemona’s Fire – Review African American Review Volume 35, Number 2 (Summer 2001) pages 342-343 Lesley Wheeler, Henry S. Fox Professor of English Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia Ruth Ellen Kocher. Desdemona’s Fire. Detroit: Lotus P, 1999. 62 pp. This shapely first collection, 1999 winner of the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award, rises with…

  • Sun uses it’s Arsenal to divide us Lester Holloway 2011-08-17 Lester Holloway, Liberal Democrat Councillor, Journalist & Equality Campaigner London Borough of Sutton Top footballers are good at what they do but the Government does not turn to Ashley Cole or John Terry for economic advice. By the same token, their views on race shouldn’t…

  • Bynum: The Long Shadow of the Civil War (2010) The Civil War Monitor: A New Look at America’s Greatest Conflict 2011-10-19 Laura Hepp Bradshaw Carnegie Mellon University The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies by Victoria E. Bynum. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. Cloth, ISBN: 0807833819. “Few…

  • Clench: What are You Fighting For? Commissioned By: Runnymede Trust-UK’s Leading Race Equality Think Tank 2011 Written and directed by Riffat Ahmed Produced by Shane Davey, Courtney Edwards, Riffat Ahmed and Fabien Soazandry of Davey Inc Running Time: 00:15:39 Starring: Hussina Raja as Ash With: Kevin Morris, Jeff Caffrey, Afreen Mhar, Allan Hopwood, and Danny Randall…

  • New Photo Essay: (1)ne Drop (1)ne Drop 2011-09-26 Yaba Blay Comments by Steven F. Riley: In keeping with the non-commercial aspect of this site, I have modified the fundraising press release to provide informational content about the book project. There is howerver, a short fundraising request at the end of the video. PHILADELPHIA, PA – Africana Studies scholar Yaba Blay, Ph.D., and award-winning…

  • The Bondage of Race and the Freedom of Transcendence in Frederick Douglass’s My Bondage and My Freedom Postgraduate English: A Journal and Forum for Postgraduates in English since 2000 Durham University Issue Number 4 (September 2001) Briallen Hopper, Lecturer in English Yale University Frederick Douglass has a strange way of describing what he feels like…

  • Dreams and Nightmares of a White Australia: Representing Aboriginal Assimilation in the Mid-twentieth Century Peter Lang Publishing Group 2009 257 pages Weight: 0.410 kg, 0.904 lbs Paperback ISBN:  978-3-03911-722-2 Series: Studies in Asia-Pacific “Mixed Race” (Volume 3) Catriona Elder, Professor of Sociology University of Syndney By the mid-twentieth century the various Australian states began changing their…

  • Visibly Different: Face, Place and Race in Australia Peter Lang Publishing Group 2007 186 pages Weight: 0.330 kg, 0.728 lbs Paperback ISBN: 978-3-03911-323-1 Series: Studies in Asia-Pacific “Mixed Race” (Volume 2) Edited by: Maureen Perkins, Associate Professor of History, Anthropology and Sociology Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia What does an Australian look like? Many Australians assume…

  • Revolution, Romanticism, and the Afro-Creole Protest Tradition in Louisiana Lousiana State University Press 2004-10-30 344 pages 6.00 x 9.00 inches / 8 halftones, 3 maps ISBN-10: 0807130265; ISBN-13: 978-0807130261 Caryn Cossé Bell, Professor of History University of Massachusetts, Lowell Jules and Frances Landry Award With the Federal occupation of New Orleans in 1862, Afro-Creole leaders…