Author: Steven

  • White Negroes Guy Foster, Assistant Professor of English Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine Africana Studies/Gender and Women’s Studies Spring 2013 Close readings of literary and filmic texts that interrogate widespread beliefs in the fixity of racial categories and the broad assumptions these beliefs often engender. Investigates “whiteness” and “blackness” as unstable and fractured ideological constructs. These…

  • Interracial Narratives Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine Africana Studies Fall 2012 Guy Foster, Assistant Professor of English Examines the stories that Americans have told about intimate relationships that cross the color line in twentieth- and twenty-first-century imaginative and theoretical texts. Considers how these stories have differed according to whether the participants are heterosexual or homosexual, men…

  • Afro-Asian Encounters: Reading Comparative American Racial Experiences Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine Africana Studies/Asian Studies Spring 2013 Wendy Thompson Taiwo, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Africana Studies Surveys a breadth of historical and contemporary encounters between African Americans and Asian Americans in the United States. Begins with the earliest waves of Asian immigration in the…

  • Faces In Between Daniels Spectrum 585 Dundas Street East Toronto, Ontario Friday, 2013-02-01, 19:00-21:00 EST (Local Time) A 3MW Collective art Exhibit at Regent Park Arts and Cultural Centre during Black History Month exploring mixed race identity through painting and photography. Join us to celebrate our first show as a collective! Cash bar and amazing…

  • Study Links Highly Segregated Counties and Lung Cancer Deaths in Blacks The New York Times 2013-01-16 Sabrina Tavernise African-Americans who live in highly segregated counties are considerably more likely to die from lung cancer than those in counties that are less segregated, a new study has found. The study was the first to look at…

  • We Need to Learn More About Our Colorful Past The New York Times 2004-07-31 Maurice A. Barboza, Founder Black Patriots Foundation Gary B. Nash, Professor Emeritus of History University of California, Los Angeles Back in 1925, American society tended not to advise young white males about the consequences of intimacy with the black maid. Even…

  • Peggy Pascoe’s What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America and the Use of Legal History to Police Social Boundaries Michigan State Law Review Volume 2011, Issue 1 (2011) pages 255-261 Kristin Hass, Associate Professor of American Studies University of Michigan “‘Being black is not the only reason why some people…

  • African Americans Reflect on Obama 2nd Inauguration Voice of America 2013-01-15 Chris Simkins WASHINGTON — Americans from across the nation will converge on Washington, DC, next  Monday (January 21) for the second inauguration of President Barack Obama. The moment will be especially meaningful for millions of African Americans who will again witness history as the…

  • “Am I Black? Hell Yeah!” (1)ne Drop Project Journal 2013-01-16 Billy Calloway “You make sure to keep a bonnet on that boy’s head. We don’t need to tip off the sales agent that a Black family is moving in.” This was the first story I remember being told to me by my dad. My father…

  • I’m Not Black, I’m Hispanic! Born Bicultural USA 2009-12-29 Alberto Padron The first time I heard that statement coming out of a family member’s mouth, I was confused. In my mind, a violation of logic had occurred. After all, the person making this statement was blacker than the black hair on their head. I mean,…