Author: Steven

  • “It is important to begin by talking about what race is not. Regardless of what our senses seem to tell us, race is not a biologically coherent story about human variation simply because the races we recognize and name are not biologically coherent populations. There is as much genetic variation within racial groups as there…

  • Scholars are sometimes (inappropriately) criticized for being activist at the same time they are scholars. More and more often it is accepted and embraced they not only can we be both but that we should be both: that being passionate about what we write about makes for better scholarship. [Yaba] Blay’s work is also an…

  • Revolutionizing Romance: Interracial Couples in Contemporary Cuba [Williams Review] Association for Feminist Anthropology Book Reviews 2012-12-21 Erica Lorraine Williams, Assistant Professor of Anthropology Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia Nadine T. Fernandez, Revolutionizing Romance: Interracial Couples in Contemporary Cuba (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2010) In this insightful and well-written ethnography, Nadine Fernandez explores a central paradox:…

  • A Racial Paradise? Race and Race Mixture in Henry Louis Gates’ Brazil Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies Volume 8,  Issue 1, 2013 pages 88-91 DOI: 10.1080/17442222.2013.768464 Chinyere Osuji, Assistant Professor of Sociology Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Camden In this documentary, Henry Louis Gates explores the extent to which the notion of…

  • Carlton Mackey: Conversations beyond color Emory Profile Emory News Center 2013-11-22 Kimber Williams As director of Emory’s Ethics and the Arts program — and a lifelong photographer and filmmaker — Carlton Mackey is used to exploring the questions that intrigue him through an artist’s lens.  So as he prepared to become a father for the…

  • Many Rivers to Cross: From Black Power to the Black President The Root 2013-11-26 Peniel E. Joseph, Professor of History Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts In the sixth and final installment of his PBS series, Henry Louis Gates Jr. leads us from the black power movement to the historic election of Barack Obama. Americans have notoriously…

  • Hello World: How Nike Sold Tiger Woods The Margins (After 1989) Asian American Writer’s Workshop 2012-08-02 Hiram Perez, Assistant Professor of English Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York How did a multinational corporation like Nike appeal to diverse markets without violating the principle of colorblindness that became increasingly and insidiously sacrosanct in the U.S. in the…

  • How to Rehabilitate a Mulatto: The Iconography of Tiger Woods Chapter in East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture (pages 222-245) New York University Press May 2005 382 pages 29 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 9780814719626 Paperback ISBN: 9780814719633 Edited By: Shilpa Davé, Assistant Dean, College of Arts and Sciences; Assistant Professor of Media Studies and American Studies…

  • Who gets the last laugh, again? Africa is a Country 2013-11-18 Jessica Blatt, Assistant Professor of Political Science Marymount Manhattan College, New York, New York I enjoy seeing a smug, bearded white supremacist get his comeuppance as much as the next guy. (Though the joy of the exuberant lady sitting next to this one is…

  • Families The New York Times 2013-11-25 Natalie Angier American households have never been more diverse, more surprising, more baffling. In this special issue of Science Times, NATALIE ANGIER takes stock of our changing definition of family. Read the entire article here.