Category: Articles

  • Fordham Law Professor Tanya Hernandez shared excerpts from her upcoming book on multiracialism and civil rights in talk sponsored by the Center on Race, Law & Justice’s Colloquium on Race and Ethnicity on November 17, not quite seven months shy of the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in Loving v. Virginia, which…

  • Loop of Jade: Sarah Howe visits Manchester Literature Festival Humanity Hallows 2016-11-04 Leigh Jones 2015 T.S. Eliot prize winner and author of A Certain Chinese Encyclopaedia, Sarah Howe made an appearance at the Manchester Literature Festival recently to discuss her novel Loop of Jade. Within her work, Howe takes her audience on a personal journey…

  • Watch The Trailer For Barry, Netflix’s Barack Obama Biopic TIME 2016-11-22 Nash Jenkins There are just under two months until Donald Trump is inaugurated, but a sentimental nostalgia for Barack Obama’s presidency has been building for quite some time. The new trailer for Barry, a biographical film about Obama’s days as a student at Columbia…

  • Black U.K. beauty magazine accidentally put a white model on its cover. Apologies followed. The Washington Post 2016-11-22 Travis M. Andrews, Staff Writer Emily Bador is a white woman. She is not, therefore, a black woman. Normally, that wouldn’t be news worth reporting, mostly because it isn’t news. But her race came into play recently…

  • David Olusoga: ‘There’s a dark side to British history, and we saw a flash of it this summer’ The Guardian 2016-11-04 Arifa Akbar ‘People used to shout “Go back to Africa” at us’ … David Olusoga. Photograph: Martin Godwin for the Guardian The writer and broadcaster on reassessing black history and the fallout from the…

  • Attitudes toward interracial marriages and the role of interracial contacts in Sweden Ethnicities Volume 16, Number 4, August 2016 pages 568-588 DOI: 10.1177/1468796816638400 Sayaka Osanami Törngren Malmo University, Sweden; Sophia University, Japan This paper examines attitudes toward interracial marriages and the relationship between the amount of prior interracial contact and attitudes in Sweden. The analysis…

  • This week, Britain’s ITV showed a programme on Mary Seacole entitled “In the Shadow of Mary Seacole.” In some ways, the programme could have been titled, “Mary Seacole in the Shadow of British Racism.” Many people who initially celebrated the fact that ITV was telling the story of the woman labeled “The Greatest Black Briton”…

  • Two halves, one American whole The Columbia Spectator 2016-11-16 Luciana Siracusano Halfie. That’s the endearing term I use to explain my ethnic and cultural heritage when people don’t know what to make of my facial features. My father is a third-generation Italian-Irish-American, and my mother is Korean and immigrated here in her 20s, so I’m…

  • Zadie Smith’s Rhythmic Play in Shadow and Light Los Angeles Review of Books 2016-11-17 Walton Muyumba, Associate Professor Assistant Director of Creative Writing Indiana University Zadie Smith, Swing Time (New York: Penguin Press, 2016). I FINISHED READING SWING TIME, Zadie Smith’s new novel, her fifth, around the time the Swedish Academy announced that Bob Dylan…

  • White Model Apologizes After Her Photo Shows Up On Blackhair Magazine The Huffington Post 2016-11-21 Zeba Blay “I’m very sorry this cover was taken away from a black woman,” she wrote. Blackhair magazine had some explaining to do after mistakenly featuring a white model rocking afro-textured hair on the cover of its latest issue. The publication, known…