Category: Articles

  • The Ambiguous and the Mundane: Racial Performance and Asian Americans Contemporary Literature Volume 57, Number 2, Summer 2016 pages 292-300 Josephine D. Lee, Professor of English and Asian American University of Minnesota Jennifer Ann Ho, Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture. New Brunswick, NJ, and London: Rutgers University Press, 2015. xi + 215 pp. $90.00…

  • Obama: African-American museum helps tell fuller story of America Cable News Network (CNN) 2016-09-24 Eugene Scott, Politics Reporter Suzanne Malveaux, National correspondent Kevin Bohn, Supervising Producer Washington (CNN) President Barack Obama said Saturday that the new Smithsonian museum devoted to African-American history elevates the often-overlooked impact of black Americans and will help others better understand…

  • The untold stories of Japanese war brides The Washington Post 2016-09-22 Kathryn Tolbert, Deputy Editor Hiroko and Bill with Kathy, left, Sam and Susan. The video is the trailer to a short documentary film, “Fall Seven Times, Get Up Eight: The Japanese War Brides,” which features Hiroko and two other war brides. They married the…

  • Becoming Creole, Becoming Black: Migration, Diasporic Self-Making, and the Many Lives of Madame Maymie Leona Turpeau de Mena Women, Gender, and Families of Color Volume 4, Number 2 (Fall 2016) pages 171-195 DOI: 10.5406/womgenfamcol.4.2.0171 Courtney Desiree Morris, Assistant Professor of African American Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Pennsylvania State University This article examines…

  • Elizabeth Warren and Tracee Ellis Ross on the Road to Activism The New York Times 2016-09-17 Philip Galanes Senator Elizabeth Warren, left, and the actress Tracee Ellis Ross having dinner at the Hay-Adams Hotel in Washington. Credit Justin T. Gellerson for The New York Times Tracee Ellis Ross may be working 14 hours a day…

  • Damien Shen: On the Fabric of the Ngarrindjeri Body Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia 400 Worrell Drive Peter Jefferson Place Charlottesville, Virginia 22911 September 2016 Damien Shen The only museum in the United States dedicated to the exhibition and study of Australian Aboriginal Art September 9 – December 18, 2016 On the…

  • Emotional Obama Tearfully Thanks Trump for Granting Him Citizenship Borowitz Report The New Yorker 2016-09-16 Andy Borowitz WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Calling this “the greatest day of my life,” a visibly moved Barack Obama held a news conference on Friday to thank Donald Trump for granting him U.S. citizenship. “The issue of whether or not I…

  • Meet the Man Who Proved That Discrimination Can Make You Physically Sick Colorlines 2016-09-13 Miriam Zoila Pérez Dr. David Williams pioneered three ways to prove the links between discrimination and poor health. An ever-growing body of research in the fields of public health, sociology and medicine is presenting a strong case for something you may personally know…

  • Virginia’s Indian tribes clear another hurdle toward federal recognition The Washington Post 2016-09-15 Jenna Portnoy, Reporter A House committee has advanced a bill that would give federal recognition to six Indian tribes in Virginia, bringing them one step closer to the end of a multi-year fight for acknowledgment of their place in the nation’s history.…

  • Historic recognition: Washington’s family tree is biracial U.S. News & World Report 2016-09-17 Matthew Barakat, Northern Virginia Correspondent The Associated Press ZSun-nee Miller-Matema poses for a portrait at Mount Vernon, the plantation home of former U.S. President George Washington, in Alexandria, Va., on Monday, July 18, 2016. Miller-Matema is a descendent of Caroline Branham, one…