Category: Articles

  • It is fitting then, that we kick off our week-long discussion of the Black Atlantic with a post by Marley-Vincent Lindsey, which explores considerations of race in the Iberian Atlantic. Subsequent posts will consider Black responses to freedom (and unfreedom), historical narrative, race, and of course, power.

  • Uganda is worried about the number of Chinese men marrying their women Quartz Africa 2016-12-09 Lily Kuo Contractors, petty traders, investors, and entrepreneurs from China have been pouring into Uganda for the past decade. China is a top investor in the east African country, accounting for as much as half of total foreign investment between…

  • ‘Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?’: Fiction by an Author Who Died Young Book Review The New York Times 2016-12-09 Morgan Jerkins WHATEVER HAPPENED TO INTERRACIAL LOVE? Stories By Kathleen Collins 175 pp. Ecco/HarperCollins Publishers. Paper, $15.99. Kathleen Collins Credit Douglas Collins Kathleen Collins’s short story collection, “Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?” opens with a monologue.…

  • How Kathleen Collins’s Daughter Kept Her Late Mother’s Career Alive Vogue 2016-09-05 Nina Lorez Collins Nina Collins in a Karen Walker dress. Photographed by Ryan Pfluger, Vogue, September 2016 A struggling filmmaker whose life was cut short by illness, Kathleen Collins has a soaring career since her daughter reopened her archive. Ten years ago, in…

  • It was a policy was born of good intentions but has stirred up perplexing, often painful, questions: What makes a person black, or white? Is it facial features? Hair? Family? Or an experience of racism? And who gets to decide?

  • Black-ish Recap: The Bunny Magnet Vulture 2016-12-01 Nichole Perkins It’s been a while since we’ve had such a perfect episode of Black-ish, but “Being Bow-racial” was worth the wait. Junior’s [Marcus Scribner]white girlfriend sends Bow [Tracee Ellis Ross] on the sort of identity crisis she hasn’t had since college. She narrates, giving us a much-needed…

  • Kathleen Collins’s ‘Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?’ Books of The Times The New York Times 2016-11-29 Dwight Garner Kathleen Collins, Elizabeth Alexander (fore.), Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? (New York: Ecco, 2016) When the filmmaker, playwright and fiction writer Kathleen Collins died of breast cancer in 1988, at 46, she left behind a wide body…

  • What was the source of Krazy Kat’s comic genius? The Washington Post 2016-12-06 Glen David Gold Michael Tisserand, Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White (New York: HarperCollins, 2016) Genius is simplicity. A dog, who is a policeman, loves a cat, who loves a mouse. The mouse throws bricks at the cat, and…

  • What I Found in Standing Rock The Players’ Tribune 2016-12-01 Bronson Koenig, Guard Wisconsin Badgers Photos by Alexandra Hootnick/The Players’ Tribune Near the edge of the Standing Rock camp in North Dakota, about 50 yards from a tributary of the Missouri River, there’s a basketball hoop. It’s one of those worn-out outdoor hoops that leans…

  • Event Review: Salena Godden’s #LIVEwire Album Launch Welcome to the MA in Black British Writing The world-first Masters programme in Black British literature at Goldsmiths, University of London 2016-12-09 Heather Marks Soho holds many secrets, and last night revealed one of them to be Salena Godden’s spoken word album launch at Carnesky’s Finishing School. Descending the…