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  • ‘The Beautiful Faces of my Black People’: race, ethnicity and the politics of Colombia’s 2005 census

    ‘The Beautiful Faces of my Black People’: race, ethnicity and the politics of Colombia’s 2005 census Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 36, 2013 – Issue 10: Rethinking Race, Racism, Identity, and Ideology in Latin America Pages 1544-1563 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2013.791398 Tianna S. Paschel, Assistant Professor of African American Studies University of California, Berkeley The recent multicultural…

  • Guest DJ Xenia Rubinos Spins Music From Solange To Ravel

    Guest DJ Xenia Rubinos Spins Music From Solange To Ravel alt.Latino: Latinx Arts and Culture National Public Radio 2017-01-04 Felix Contreras, Host Xenia Rubinos plays Guest DJ on this week’s episode of Alt.Latino. Courtesy of the artist Vocalist Xenia Rubinos ended 2016 with a bang: Her album Black Terry Cat was singled out in best-of-the-year…

  • The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race [Review]

    The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race [Review] Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Volume 3, Issue 1, (January 2017) pages 145-146 DOI: 10.1177/2332649216676788 Emily Walton, Assistant Professor of Sociology Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire Anthony Christian Ocampo, The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race. Stanford,…

  • National Colors: Racial Classification and the State in Latin America [Review]

    National Colors: Racial Classification and the State in Latin America [Review] Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Volume 3, Issue 1, (January 2017) pages 141-145 DOI: 10.1177/2332649216676789 Mark Q. Sawyer, Associate Professor of Political Science University of California, Los Angeles Mara Loveman, National Colors: Racial Classification and the State in Latin America. Oxford, UK: Oxford University…

  • Ruth Negga: ‘Stories about race and identity pique my interest… I have always felt like a fish out of water’

    Ruth Negga: ‘Stories about race and identity pique my interest… I have always felt like a fish out of water’ The Belfast Telegraph 2016-12-31 Patricia Danaher Starring role: Ruth Negga’s career is going from strength to strength Nominated for a Golden Globe, tipped for an Oscar and on the cover of Vogue, Ruth Negga is…

  • Kamala Harris sworn in as first Indian American senator and California’s first black senator

    Kamala Harris sworn in as first Indian American senator and California’s first black senator The Los Angeles Times 2017-01-03 Sara D. Wire, Congressional Delegation Reporter Before friends and family in a packed chamber, Kamala Harris was sworn in as California’s newest U.S. senator Tuesday morning. She became the first black woman the Golden State has…

  • Author Joseph Boyden defends indigenous heritage after investigation

    Author Joseph Boyden defends indigenous heritage after investigation The Toronto Star 2016-12-26 Nicole Thompson The Canadian Press Author responds after investigation by Aboriginal Peoples Television Network into his background. A celebrated Canadian author who writes about First Nations heritage and culture is defending himself on Twitter after his ancestry was questioned. In a statement posted…

  • Chan by Hannah Lowe

    Hannah Lowe’s latest collection of poetry “Chan” (Bloodaxe, 2016) revisits the characters and stories from her first collection, “Chick” (Bloodaxe, 2013), which won the Michaels Murphy memorial Award for Best First Collection, and was short-listed for the Forward, Aldeburgh and Seamus Heaney Best First Collection Prizes.

  • Still ‘Krazy’ after all these years: A life of George Herriman, pioneering comic writer and N.O. exile

    Still ‘Krazy’ after all these years: A life of George Herriman, pioneering comic writer and N.O. exile The New Orleans Advocate 2016-12-05 Susan Larson, Host, The Reading Life WWNO-FM, New Orleans George Herriman, from Michael Tisserand’s Krazy Kat bio of George Herriman For Michael Tisserand, as for most of us, the love of comics came…

  • A reflection on Barack Obama’s presidency

    Barack Obama’s presidency lurched between idealism and acrimony but some of his accomplishments will endure