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  • Halle Berry and the Myth of the Black Man-Eating Bitch

    Halle Berry and the Myth of the Black Man-Eating Bitch For Harriet 2015-11-06 Kelly Davis Brookyln, New York I have a complicated relationship with Halle Berry. I have admired her work, mainly Losing Isaiah and Introducing Dorothy Dandridge. She inspired my haircut senior year of college, not long after she won her history-making Academy Award.…

  • Slavery’s Hidden History: An interview with historian Eric Foner

    Slavery’s Hidden History: An interview with historian Eric Foner American Libraries 2015-10-27 George M. Eberhart, Editor Eric Foner—Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, author of Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad (W. W. Norton, 2015), Columbia University professor, and author of more than 20 history texts—spoke to American Libraries about his latest book and…

  • ‘Monstress’: Inside The Fantasy Comic About Race, Feminism And The Monster Within

    ‘Monstress’: Inside The Fantasy Comic About Race, Feminism And The Monster Within The Hollywood Reporter 2015-11-03 Graeme McMillan “I didn’t realize how massive it was until I started writing it,” creator Marjorie Liu tells THR. Monstress, a new comic book series from Image Comics which launches this week, is all about hidden depths. Not only…

  • Probing Change in Racial Self-identification: A Focus on Children of Immigrants

    Probing Change in Racial Self-identification: A Focus on Children of Immigrants Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Published online before print 2015-10-26 DOI: 10.1177/2332649215611685 Thomas J. Mowen, Assistant Professor Department of Criminal Justice University of Wyoming Richard Stansfield, Assistant Professor Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice Rutgers the State University of New Jersey, Camden Recent…

  • Valuing Blackness vs. Claiming “Mixedness”

    Valuing Blackness vs. Claiming “Mixedness” For Harriet 2014-10-30 Tamara Williams I remember being in 7th grade, and writing on the back of my folder all the things I was told by an older cousin I was “mixed” with. I had a desire to claim all I thought I was, but what was more interesting is…

  • Who Is Multiracial? Depends on How You Ask

    Who Is Multiracial? Depends on How You Ask Pew Research Center 2015-11-06 Eileen Patten, Research Analyst In 2014, as Pew Research Center prepared to conduct the first major study of the views of multiracial Americans—a group that, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, is poised to triple by 2060—we faced a fundamental and unavoidable methodological…

  • Interesting description of a group of people called Cajans around Mobile Alabama written before 1940

    Interesting description of a group of people called Cajans around Mobile Alabama written before 1940 Alabama Pioneers 2015-11-06 Donna R. Causey THE CAJANS OF SOUTH ALABAMA Occupying the pine and oak woods of Mobile County in southern Alabama are a group of people of mixed racial blood known in that section as Indian Cajans. Living…

  • Colored Perceptions: Racially Distinctive Names and Assessments of Skin Color

    Colored Perceptions: Racially Distinctive Names and Assessments of Skin Color American Behavioral Scientist Published online before print 2015-10-28 DOI: 10.1177/0002764215613395 Denia Garcia Department of Sociology Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey Maria Abascal Department of Sociology Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey Scholars are increasingly employing skin color measures to investigate racial stratification beyond the dimensions of…

  • I See Color and You Should Too

    I See Color and You Should Too Alex Barnett: Stand-up Comedian and Multiracial Family Man 2015-10-13 Alex Barnett As a comic and member of a multiracial family, I deal frequently with issues of race in my act and debunk myths. For example, it is not true that all biracial toddlers can move objects with their…

  • Every term the Census has used to describe America’s racial and ethnic groups since 1790

    Every term the Census has used to describe America’s racial and ethnic groups since 1790 The Washington Post 2015-11-04 Laris Karklis, Deputy Graphics Director Emily Badger, Urban Policy Writer This chart is based on an interactive the Census Bureau published this week tracing the history of these changes, from the proliferation of new racial and…