Author: Steven

  • “The Day Beyoncé Turned Black” – SNL Saturday Night Live (NBC) 2016-02-13

  • Puerto Rican schoolchildren are taught that regardless of physical appearance they all individually derive from the same aforementioned roots. Regardless of whether this is true or not hasn’t eradicated in Puerto Rico structural or personal racism. Belief in mestizaje silences conversations about white supremacy and doesn’t force those with privilege to take responsibility for it.

  • Social justice advocate and law scholar Dorothy Roberts has a precise and powerful message: Race-based medicine is bad medicine. Even today, many doctors still use race as a medical shortcut; they make important decisions about things like pain tolerance based on a patient’s skin color instead of medical observation and measurement. In this searing talk,…

  • TEDx USF with Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman TEDx USF University of South Florida Tampa, Florida 2016-02-08 From November 2015, Assistant Professor of Sociology Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman discusses her new book, The Color of Love: Racial Features, Stigma, and Socialization in Black Brazilian Families.

  • Is Obama a black man? The Independent: You Buy the Truth, We Pay the Price Kololo, Kampala, Uganda 2016-02-08 Andrew M. Mwenda, Founder and Owner How he has accepted the categorisation imposed upon him by a racial system that subjugated black people US President Barak Obama calls himself a black man. Indeed, America and the…

  • Identifying as Mixed Race vs Identifying as Black: I Choose Both Mixed Race Feminist Blog 2016-02-10 Nicola Codner Leeds, Yorkshire, United Kingdom I recently watched an interview with the UK rapper, writer and academic Akala. I usually really enjoy hearing him speak and generally find him to be quite faultless in his views on racial…

  • A call for end of the “Globeleza Mulata”: A Manifesto Black Women of Brazil: The site dedicated to Brazilian women of African descent 2016-02-08 Stephanie Ribeiro and Djamila Ribeiro Originally, “A Mulata Globeleza: Um Manifesto” from Agora é que são elas (2016-01-29). The Globeleza Mulata is not a natural cultural event, but a performance that…

  • The Brazilian carnival queen deemed ‘too black’ – video The Guardian 2016-02-09 Barney Lankester-Owen, Bruce Douglas, Charlie Phillips and Juliet Riddell Nayara Justino thought her dreams had come true when she was selected as the Globeleza carnival queen in 2013 after a public vote on one of Brazil’s biggest TV shows. But some regarded her…

  • Based upon trends in racial self-classification, one has to be skeptical about the emergence of “majority-minority” America.

  • I Heart Obama University Press of New England 2016-02-09 256 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/2″ Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-61168-536-7 Ebook IBSN: 978-1-61168-967-9 Erin Aubry Kaplan A personal and cultural exploration of Barack Obama as black president, black icon, and black folk hero In his nearly two terms as president, Barack Obama has solidified his status…