Category: Articles

  • The Gains and Losses of Passing for White – Ernest Torregano Creolegen 2015-05-31 Jari Honora, Founder and Consultant In 1912, Ernest Joseph Torregano, a thirty-year old New Orleans native, was a porter on the Southern Pacific Railroad. For about three years, Torregano had worked the run from New Orleans to San Francisco. After each successful…

  • 10 Afro-Puerto Ricans Everyone Should Know La Respuesta: A magazine to (Re)Imagine Boricua Diaspora 2015-06-03 La Respuesta magazine is dedicated to both resurrecting lost history and highlighting marginalized communities within our “gran familia puertorriqueña”. Afrodescendientes boricuas is one such community, who are, at best – forgotten or ignored – and at worst – exoticized, feared,…

  • University of Salford installs new Chancellor, Professor Jackie Kay MBE University of Salford Salford, United Kingdom Friday, 2015-05-01 The University celebrated the official installation of it’s sixth Chancellor, renowned poet Professor Jackie Kay MBE, at a grand ceremony in Peel Hall on Wednesday 29 April 2015. Jackie Kay MBE was formally initiated in a ceremony…

  • University of Salford officially appoints renowned poet Professor Jackie Kay as their new chancellor Manchester Evening News Manchester, England 2015-05-09 Charlotte Dobson, Social Affairs Reporter Prof Jackie Kay MBE appointed as the Chancellor of the University of Salford Professor Jackie Kay MBE was formally initiated at a ceremony attended by fellow celebrated writer Jeanette Winterson…

  • I had always understood my ancestry to be a tangle of African slaves, free men of color, French and Spanish immigrants, British colonists, Native Americans—but in what proportion?

  • Why You Can Kiss My Mulatto Ass BuzzFeed 2015-05-26 Mat Johnson, BuzzFeed Contributor “The recent re-emergence of mulatto identity isn’t about race, it’s about actively acknowledging a multiethnic reality in a simplistically racialized world.” Yo, I’m a mulatto. And I have to tell you, it’s great. I was black for most of my life, which…

  • “You get a cookie for being offended”: Mat Johnson on the fine art of racial satire Salon 2015-05-24 Laura Miller The author of “Pym” talks about his new novel, his love-hate relationship with Twitter and being a black nerd Mat Johnson is a little apprehensive about his new novel, “Loving Day,” a satire of race…

  • Schools for European and Eurasian children in India: Making of the official policy in colonial India and its contemporary significance Policy Futures in Education Volume 13, Number 3 (April 2015) pages 315-327 DOI: 10.1177/1478210315569040 Heeral Chhabra, M.Phil Research Scholar Department of History University of Delhi, India The history of education in India has been looked…

  • How A Latina-Asian American Ascended Amazon’s Ranks NBC News 2015-05-29 Stephen A. Nuño, Associate Professor of Politics & International Affairs Northern Arizona Univeristy If you have ever bought anything from the online retail giant, Amazon.com, you probably didn’t know that a multicultural woman is one of the managers leading the work behind the scenes with…

  • Mystery, and Discovery, on the Trail of a Creole Music Pioneer The New York Times 2015-05-28 Campbell Robertson, Southern correspondent PINEVILLE, La. — Somewhere among the thousands beneath a grassy hill here lies the body of Amédé Ardoin. He was singular in life: one of the greatest accordion players ever to come out of south…