Author: Steven

  • The Colonel’s Dream West Virginia University Press October 2014 (originally published in 1905) 352 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-935978-91-6 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-940425-23-8 ePub ISBN: 978-1-935978-93-0 PDF ISBN: 978-1-935978-92-3 Charles W. Chesnutt Edited by: R. J. Ellis, Professor of American Studies University of Birmingham, United Kingdom Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932) was an African American writer, essayist, Civil…

  • A rare glimpse into the thoughts and experiences of a free black American woman in the nineteenth century

  • The Post-Racial Mystique: Media and Race in the Twenty-First Century New York University Press April 2014 256 pages 9 halftones and 7 tables Cloth ISBN: 9780814762899 Paper ISBN: 9780814770603 Catherine R. Squires, Associate Professor of Communication Studies University of Minnesota Despite claims from pundits and politicians that we now live in a post-racial America, people…

  • Historically Black: Imagining Community in a Black Historic District New York University Press July 2014 208 pages 10 halftones Cloth ISBN: 9780814762882 Paper ISBN: 9780814763483 Mieka Brand Polanco, Assistant Professor of Anthropology James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia In Historically Black, Mieka Brand Polanco examines the concept of community in the United States: how communities are…

  • Race, Sex, and the Freedom to Marry tells the story of this couple and the case that forever changed the law of race and marriage in America.

  • Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America University of North Carolina Press October 2014 320 pages 59 figs., 4 maps, 23 tables, notes, bibl., index 6.125 x 9.25 Paper ISBN: 978-1-4696-1783-1 Edward E. Telles, Professor of Sociology Princeton University and The Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America (PERLA) Princeton University Pigmentocracies—the fruit…

  • One Drop of Love at the Straz Center Straz Center for the Performing Arts Jaeb Theater 1010 N. W.C. MacInnes Place Tampa, Florida 33602 Saturday, 2014-11-08, 19:30 EST (Local Time) Produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, this extraordinary one-woman show by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni incorporates filmed images, photographs and animation to tell the story…

  • ‘A Chosen Exile,’ by Allyson Hobbs: review San Francisco Chronicle 2014-11-01 Imani Perry, Professor, Center for African American Studies Princeton University Allyson Hobbs, A Chosen Exile: History of Racial Passing in American Life (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014) Family across the color line: It is now a popular enough theme that it qualifies as a…

  • Marni Soupcoff: A law that bans ‘mixed race’ couples? Yes. In 2014. In Canada National Post Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2014-11-06 Marni Soupcoff, Deputy Comment Editor A Canadian woman falls in love and joins her life with that of a man of a different race. As a direct result of this union, she is harassed, receives…

  • ‘The abuse we suffered due to our skin colour is being airbrushed from Irish history’ TheJournal.ie Dublin, Ireland 2014-10-22 Nicky Ryan, Staff Reporter Members of Mixed Race Irish before the committee today. Source: Oireachtas.ie Mixed Race Irish is asking for the Government to recognise the abuse they suffered in State-run institutions. IN A EMOTIONAL appearance…