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  • Colorblindness is not Progressive: a Review of “The Color of Water”

    Colorblindness is not Progressive: a Review of “The Color of Water” The Tempest 2016-06-11 Maya Williams We should make it clear that the concept of colorblindness isn’t just a white perspective to have or to talk about. The Color of Water: a Black Man’s Tribute to his White Mother (1995) tells the story of a…

  • 5 Steps Latinos Can Take to Combat Anti-Blackness

    5 Steps Latinos Can Take to Combat Anti-Blackness Remezcla 2016-07-09 Andrew S. Vargas We are all reeling from the events of this past week. The deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of police have become an all-too-familiar narrative in our public life, but each time we are confronted with these images it dredges…

  • Obama’s Delicate Balance on Issue of Race and Policing

    Obama’s Delicate Balance on Issue of Race and Policing The New York Times 2017-07-08 Mark Landler, White House Correspondent Michael D. Shear, White House Correspondent WARSAW — As Air Force One headed for Europe on Thursday afternoon, President Obama holed up in the plane’s office editing a Facebook post meant to express his anguish at…

  • Can Biracial Activists Speak To Black Issues?

    While my first instinct was to celebrate Jesse Williams’ recent Humanitarian Award from BET, my second instinct, which came just seconds later, was to brace myself for the backlash.

  • Paul Gilroy: Race and ‘Useful Violence’

    Paul Gilroy: Race and ‘Useful Violence’ Public Seminar 2016-07-08 McKenzie Wark, Professor of Culture and Media in Liberal Studies The New School for Social Research #BLM passes The New School. Aimé Césaire called it: the so-called west is a decaying civilization. In both the United States and Europe, where institutions are receding, a base level…

  • White people, don’t tell me what Martin Luther King would think of Black Lives Matter

    White people, don’t tell me what Martin Luther King would think of Black Lives Matter Vox 2016-07-08 Jon Crowley Toronto, Ontario, Canada I woke up Thursday morning and accidentally watched a video of Alton Sterling being killed by the police. In a world of social feeds and autoplaying video, I’m far from the only person…

  • MSU faculty contribute to book on white privilege

    MSU faculty contribute to book on white privilege Mississippi State University 2016-07-01 Contact: Allison Matthews STARKVILLE, Miss.—Two Mississippi State faculty members helped lead a literary effort examining the basis and scope of racial identity as an American social structure. Stephen Middleton, professor of history and director for African American Studies at MSU, along with associate…

  • #BlackLivesMatter

    #BlackLivesMatter The Cairo Review of Global Affairs Spring 2015 Reverend Charles Williams II, Senior Pastor King Solomon Baptist Church, Detroit, Michigan Demonstrator protesting the police killing of teenager Michael Brown, Ferguson, Aug. 18, 2014. Charlie Riedel/Associated Press. Conservative backlash against Barack Obama and continuing police brutality against blacks indicates the country’s legacy of slavery has…

  • Those Discriminated Against Are Now the Discriminators

    Those Discriminated Against Are Now the Discriminators Indian Country Today Media Network 2015-12-31 Juilanne Jennings For some odd and stupid reason many of us continue to be color struck. I really think most of us are ignorant or at the very least forgetful. Black people who look “white” is not a new phenomenon. In the…

  • Prize-winning Hong Kong-born poet Sarah Howe makes verse of city’s Basic Law

    Prize-winning Hong Kong-born poet Sarah Howe makes verse of city’s Basic Law South China Morning Post 2016-07-07 Clare Tyrrell-Morin Having played down her Chinese side while growing up and studying in the UK, Howe, now at Harvard, has turned to it again as she makes an ‘erasure poem’ out of Hong Kong’s mini-constitution We meet…