Category: Articles

  • Taye Diggs wants son to embrace being mixed, not choose black or white The Grio 2015-11-13 Chris Witherspoon, Entertainment Editor Last month, Taye Diggs released his second children’s book, Mixed Me, inspired by his biracial 6-year-old son, Walker. His mother is actress and singer Indina Menzel. In a society in which it is sometimes hard…

  • UPDATE: Mike Middleton is named interim UM System president The Columbia Missourian Columiba, Missouri 2015-11-12 Emma VanDelinder and Alexa Ahern Interim UM System President Michael Middleton speaks at his introductory news conference Thursday at University Hall. Middleton was the first black professor in the MU School of Law. More recently, he served as deputy chancellor…

  • A course originally called ‘The Problem of Whiteness’ returns to Arizona State The Washington Post 2015-11-12 Yanan Wang Freedom of speech. Racial inequality. Student activism. Safe spaces. These are the phrases that have been lobbied about over the past week, in tones both fervent and contemptuous, as University of Missouri students successfully campaigned for the…

  • People talked of a ‘post-racial’ US when I arrived in 2008. That seems ludicrous now The Guardian 2015-11-13 Hari Kunzru I arrived in New York in 2008, in the midst of a bitterly fought election campaign. When Barack Obama declared victory, I was standing at the corner of 125th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Jr…

  • The police committed more than 1 in every 6 of Rio de Janeiro’s homicides between 2010 and 2013.

  • Racial Microaggressions Among Asian American and Latino/a Students at a Historically Black University Journal of College Student Development Volume 56, Number 7, October 2015 pages 705-722 DOI: 10.1353/csd.2015.0076 Robert T. Palmer, Associate Professor Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Howard University, Washington, D.C. Dina C. Maramba, Assistant Professor of Student Affairs Administration Binghampton University,…

  • Clarion University forced to cancel play over actors’ race Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2015-11-12 Bill Schackner, Higher Education Writer Student actors and the stage crew at Clarion University arrived Tuesday evening for one of the final rehearsals before next week’s campus opening of “Jesus in India” only to learn the off-Broadway production they had spent…

  • Intermarriage and Integration Revisited: International Experiences and Cross-Disciplinary Approaches The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Volume 662, November 2015 Guest Edited by: Dan Rodríguez-García, Associate Professor Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Intermarriage has been a subject of study in the social sciences for…

  • Revisiting Palmares: Maroon Communities in Brazil (Celeste Henery) African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) 2015-11-09 Celeste Henery, Postdoctoral Fellow University of Texas, Austin This is a guest post by Celeste Henery, a Research Associate at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies. She completed a PhD…

  • Lib at Large: Documentary tells odd story of Korla Pandit, ‘godfather of exotica’ Marin Independent Journal San Rafael, California 2015-10-29 Paul Liberatore Marin has been home to some fascinating characters over the decades, but probably no one has been as mysterious and exotic as Korla Pandit, an organ-playing, turban-wearing sex symbol of 1950s daytime TV.…