Category: Literary/Artistic Criticism

  • “My life has gotten white”: Zadie Smith’s Erotics and Ethics of Upward Mobility C21 Seminar Series 2015-16 Centre for Research in Twenty-first Century Writings University of Brighton Falmer Campus 101 Mayfield House Brighton, United Kingdom 2015-11-09, 17:00-18:30Z Sarah Brophy, Professor of English and Cultural Studies McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada In a 2011 Guardian article…

  • Why Germany’s latest Nazi satire ‘Heil’ isn’t brave enough Deutsche Welle 2015-07-16 Sarah Hofmann An unlikely spokesman Neo-Nazi boss Sven (left, played by Beno Fürmann) celebrates a victory. He kidnapped Afro-German author Sebastian Klein (played by Jerry Hoffmann), who suffers from amnesia after behind hit on the head. Klein starts mimicking everything the neo-Nazis say.…

  • Black Magic Woman and Narrative Film: Race, Sex and Afro-Religiosity Palgrave Macmillan July 2015 216 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9781137454171 Ebook (EPUB) ISBN: 9781137454195 Ebook (PDF) ISBN: 9781137454188 Montré Aza Missouri, Associate Professor in Film Howard University, Washington, D.C. Contributing to emerging scholarship on representations of race, gender, sexuality and religion in film and media, Black…

  • AfroLatin@s in Action: Making a Difference through Research, Education & the Arts Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute 20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor New York, New York 10012 Thursday, 2015-10-15, 18:30-20:30 EDT (Local Time) Join us for a discussion led by AfroCuban author, bibliographer, and activist Tomás Fernandez Robaína on the crucial role of books in…

  • 12 British Poets Share Their Favourite Poems For #NationalPoetryDay BuzzFeed 2015-10-08 Fiona Rutherford, BuzzFeed News Reporter London, England …3. Rachel Long Amaal Said Age: 26 Themes in your work: Sexuality, growing up, hurt, mixed parentage, love, eating disorders, death, dreams. Favourite poem: Impossible to choose. I’ve sat here for a half hour with fingers over…

  • ‘One Drop of Love’ The Sophian: The Independent Newspaper of Smith College Northampton, Massachusetts 2015-09-24 Eliza Going, Contributing Writer Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni performed her well-known one-woman play challenging the construct of race, “One Drop of Love,” on Sept. 18 and 19 in the Hallie Flanagan Studio Theatre. In this show, she not only tells the…

  • Obama and hip-hop: a breakup song The Washington Post 2015-09-25 Erik Nielson, Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts University of Richmond Travis L. Gosa, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Erik Nielson is an assistant professor of liberal arts at the University of Richmond. Travis L. Gosa is an assistant professor of…

  • For most of the history of the United States, the racial categorization of mixed black/white persons was illogical and often contradictory (Sollors, “Introduction” 6). Generally speaking, people with any percentage of black ancestry were most commonly classified simply as black (according to the “one-drop rule” imposed by whites), and, at times, recognized as a separate…

  • Between the World and Me: Empathy Is a Privilege The Atlantic 2015-09-28 John Paul Rollert, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science University of Chicago Booth School of Business Barack Obama and Ta-Nehisi Coates have made race and empathy central to their writing, but their conclusions point in radically different directions. Don’t despair. According to Ta-Nehisi…

  • The Passing Paradox: Writing, identity & publishing while black Fusion 2015-02-13 Stacia L. Brown A wife lives in constant fear that her husband will discover she’s not who she claims to be. A black aspiring architect is mistaken for an ethnicity other than his own and is offered a job he never would’ve accessed had…