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  • Color film was built for white people. Here’s what it did to dark skin Vox 2015-09-18 Estelle Caswell The biased film was fixed in the 1990s, so why do so many photos still distort darker skin? For decades, the color film available to consumers was built for white people. The chemicals coating the film simply…

  • Looking at Shirley, the Ultimate Norm: Colour Balance, Image Technologies, and Cognitive Equity Canadian Journal of Communication Volume 34, Number 1 (2009) pages 111-136 Lorna Roth, Professor of Communication Studies Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Until recently, due to a light-skin bias embedded in colour film stock emulsions and digital camera design, the rendering of…

  • Raising a Biracial Child as a Mother of Color The Atlantic 2015-09-19 Lara N. Dotson-Renta A mother’s reflection on her own childhood and that of her biracial child—and the inevitable differences of the two. A few months ago, I was walking home from the bus stop with my eldest daughter during the last week of…

  • ‘Remnants of Slavery’ column shows racial ignorance Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 2015-09-20 Rebecca Keller O’Hara Township, Pennsylvania I’m greatly troubled by Jack Kelly’s historically flawed column “Remnants of Slavery” (Sept. 13) because it falsely enables an often unhearing percentage of the white majority to tell people of color that our modern-day experiences with racism are an illusion.…

  • Whiteness Fractured Ashgate Publishing November 2013 256 pages Includes 1 b&w illustration 234 x 156 mm Hardback ISBN: 978-1-4094-6357-3 Cynthia Levine-Rasky, Associate Professor of Sociology Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada Whiteness Fractured examines the many ways in which whiteness is conceptualized today and how it is understood to operate and to effect social relationships. Exploring…

  • Difference of a Different Kind: Jewish Constructions of Race During the Long Eighteenth Century University of Pennsylvania Press 2014 280 pages 6 x 9 12 illus. Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8122-4609-4 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-8122-0970-9 Iris Idelson-Shein, Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow Martin Buber Professur für Jüdische Religionsphilosophie Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main European Jews, argues Iris Idelson-Shein,…

  • What does race do? Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 38, Issue 8, 2015 Special Issue: Ethnic and Racial Studies Review pages 1401-1406 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2015.1016064 Alana Lentin, Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Social Analysis University of Western Sydney, Australia In writing on ‘John Rex’s Main Mistake’, Michael Banton reveals more about Banton than he does about…

  • “Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White” is an arresting and moving personal story about childhood, race, and identity in the American South, rendered in stunning illustrations by the author, Lila Quintero Weaver.

  • The Science Behind ‘They All Look Alike to Me’ The New York Times 2015-09-20 Rachel L. Swarns The outcry was immediate and ferocious when a white New York City police officer tackled James Blake, the retired biracial tennis star, while arresting him this month in a case of mistaken identity. The officer mistook Mr. Blake…

  • One Drop of Love at Smith College Smith College Hallie Flanagan Theater, Theatre Green Room 122 Green Street Northampton, Massachusetts 01063 Friday, 2015-09-18 and Saturday, 2015-09-19 (Two Performances!) 19:00-21:00 EDT (Local Time) One Drop of Love is a multimedia solo performance by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, incorporating filmed images, photographs and animation to tell the story of…