Category: Articles

  • “Most Fitting Companions”: Making Mixed-Race Bodies Visible in Antebellum Public Spaces Theatre Survey Volume 56, Issue 2, May 2015 pages 138-165 DOI: 10.1017/S0040557415000046 Lisa Merrill, Professor of Speech Communication, Rhetoric, Performance Studies Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York In the years leading up to the U.S. Civil War, free and fugitive persons of color were aware…

  • President Obama & Marilynne Robinson: A Conversation in Iowa The New York Review of Books 2015-11-05 President Barack Obama Marilynne Robinson President Obama and Marilynne Robinson at the Iowa State Library, Des Moines, September 2015 (Pete Souza/White House) The following conversation between President Obama and Marilynne Robinson was conducted in Des Moines, Iowa, on September…

  • A Change Has Come: Race, Politics, and the Path to the Obama Presidency Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race Volume 6, Issue 01, Spring 2009 pages 1-14 DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X09090018 Lawrence D. Bobo, W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences Harvard University Michael C. Dawson, John D. MacArthur Professor of Political…

  • Dolly Fernandez: Growing up in a love-filled, mixed-race family in the anti-miscegenation era The FilAm: A Magazine for Filipino Americans in New York 2015-11-20 Cristina DC Pastor, Founding Editor “It was a scandal, but it was also a happy marriage. They just had so much fun together.” Dolores ‘Dolly’ Fernandez, the daughter of a Filipino…

  • This Week in Civil Rights History New York State United Teachers 2015-09-20 September 20th – Maryland Passes First Miscegenation Law On this day in 1664, Maryland passed the first Miscegenation Law, banning inter-racial marriage in the United States. As African slavery became more widespread, both laws and customs became more restrictive. The impetus for the…

  • The Black Female Mathematicians Who Sent Astronauts to Space Mental Floss 2015-11-24 A. K. Whitney Katherine Johnson at NASA Langley Research Center in 1971. (Source NASA) Today, November 24, President Barack Obama awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom, considered the nation’s highest civilian honor, to 17 men and women. Among them is 97-year-old retired African-American…

  • Academia hasn’t “radicalized” me, it’s woken me up. Andrew Joseph Pegoda, A.B.D. 2015-11-25 Andrew Joseph Pegoda Society regularly miss-labels academics “radicals in the ivory tower,” especially those who work in the Liberal Arts, as they tend to be very aware of everyday culture and life. This wrath from society targets people, regardless of degrees or…

  • President Obama Names Recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom Office of the Press Secretary The White House Washington, D.C. 2015-11-16 WASHINGTON, DC – Today, President Barack Obama named seventeen recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the Nation’s highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially…

  • You may not know it — but if you speak Spanish, you speak some Arabic too PRI’s The World Public Radio International 2015-10-15 Joy Diaz, Reporter Rihab Massif, originally from Lebanon, was my daughter’s preschool teacher in Austin. As a little girl, Camila, my daughter, spoke mostly in Spanish. And Massif remembers a day when…

  • What Woodrow Wilson Cost My Grandfather The New York Times 2015-11-25 Gordon J. Davis, Partner Venable, LLP,  New York, New York John Abraham Davis, center, and his family at their farm in the early 1900s. Credit Courtesy of the Davis Family OVER the last week, a growing number of students at Princeton have demanded that…