Author: Steven

  • Yaba Blay’s (1)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race (2014) is a beautiful, first-hand look at the true complexities surrounding the ways in which societies and peoples racialize one another and the ways in which these are institutionalized.

  • Whiteness, History, and Comments about George Zimmerman Andrew Joseph Pegoda, A.B.D. 2013-07-17 Andrew Joseph Pegoda Department of History University of Houston Events and things in history frequently involve what I call the “realms of illogic.” It’s not gonna make sense. “Race” is one of these. This posting is an attempt to address how people are…

  • Race and Medicine Princeton University AAS 403 / ANT 403 (EM) Spring 2013-2014 Carolyn M. Rouse, Professor of Anthropology In 1998, then-President Clinton set a national goal that by the year 2010 race, ethnic, and gender disparities in six disease categories would be eliminated. While the agenda, called Healthy People 2010, was a noble effort,…

  • The Martinican concept of “creoleness”: A multiracial redefinition of culture. Mots Pluriels Number 7, (July 1998): Third Space and Cross-Cultural Identities—Mestissage – Tiers Espace – Identite Beverley Ormerod, Associate Professor of French University of Western Australia In the 1930s, black and coloured intellectuals from the French Caribbean colonies of Martinique, Guadeloupe and Guyane sought for…

  • All in the Family: Interracial Intimacy, Racial Fictions, and the Law California Law Review Circuit Volume 4 (November 2013) pages 179-186 D. Wendy Greene, Professor of Law Cumberland School of Law, Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama Professor Wendy Greene highlights the continued importance of analyzing interracial relationships in the framework of the law in her review…

  • The spectre of race in American medicine Medical Humanities Volume 32, Issue 2 (2013) pages 137-141 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2013-010374 Mariam O. Fofana Department of Epidemiology; Medical Scientist Training Program Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health / Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Controversies and debates surrounding race have long been a fixture in American medicine. In the…

  • One Big Mixed Race Classroom: New Models for Digital, Transnational, and Cross-Disciplinary Pedagogy Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association Beyond the Logic of Debt, Toward an Ethics of Collective Dissent 2013-11-21 through 2013-11-24 Washington Hilton 1919 Connecticut Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. Washington Hilton, Columbia Hall 9 (T) Friday, 2013-11-22, 12:00-13:45 EST (Local Time) CHAIR:…

  • Where “Old” and “New” World Color Meet in Multiracial Asian America Racism Review 2013-11-18 Sharon Chang, Guest blogger Multiracial Asian Families Rare indeed is the Asian American who has not heard an aunt or grandmother say something like; ‘Don’t go out in the sun. You’ll get too dark’…[Asian countries have] had long-standing preferences for light…

  • For Key And Peele, Biracial Roots Bestow Special Comedic ‘Power’ Fresh Air National Public Radio 2013-11-20 Terry Gross, Host Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele are the duo behind the Comedy Central sketch comedy show Key & Peele. Each has a white mother and black father, and a lot of their comedy is about race: Perhaps…

  • The Women Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1996 160 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches Paperback ISBN: 9780374525293; ISBN10: 0374525293 Hilton Als, Staff Writer The New Yorker A New York Times Notable Book Daring and fiercely original, The Women is at once a memoir, a psychological study, a sociopolitical manifesto, and an incisive adventure in…