Category: Articles

  • Long Time Passing Sunday Book Review The New York Times 2009-01-23 Amy Finnerty Baz Dreisinger, Near Black: White-to-Black Passing in American Culture (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008). How black is Eminem? How white is our president? We can’t help asking these awkward questions as we digest “Near Black,” by Baz Dreisinger. A freelance journalist…

  • ‘Ladivine,’ by Marie NDiaye Book Review The New York Times 2016-05-05 Patrick McGrath LADIVINE By Marie NDiaye Translated by Jordan Stump 276 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $26.95. Marie NDiaye is the author of more than a dozen plays and works of fiction. Currently living in Berlin, having left France in 2009, by her own account…

  • Jump at de Sun The Nation 2003-01-30 Kristal Brent Zook Anthropologist, novelist, folklorist, essayist and luminary of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston dazzled her peers and patrons almost immediately upon her arrival in New York City in 1925, when she made a show-stopping grand entrance at a formal literary affair, flinging a red scarf…

  • The “Highly Important Matter of Clothes”: Apparel and Identity in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand Fringe: The Noun That Verbs Your World Issue 19, Summer 2009 (2009-07-19) Kaley Joyes Nella Larsen’s novel Quicksand (1928) is saturated with clothing. This essay examines the ways in which Larsen uses fashionable apparel to map connections between racial identity and aesthetic…

  • Jews of Color Get Personal and Political at First-Ever National Gathering Forward 2016-05-04 Sigal Samuel, Opinion Editor If you want to get black Jews, Mizrahi Jews and a Palestinian-American Muslim to burst into tears at the same time, invite Yavilah McCoy to talk about hair. Speaking at the opening plenary of the Jews of Color…

  • Jewish/Afro-Caribbean artist, performer and playwright Sarah Waisvisz, 34, will be presenting her one-woman show, Monstrous, which explores the often ignored mixed race identity based on her own personal experiences, and her work on her PhD thesis research about Francophone/Anglophone literature specifically by Afro/Caribbean women

  • What Obama’s Trip To Havana Revealed About Race In Cuba And The U.S. African American Intellectual History Society 2016-05-04 Devyn Spence Benson, Assistant Professor of History and African and African American Studies Louisiana State University During his groundbreaking visit to Havana last month, President Barack Obama suggested that the embrace of U.S.-style democracy and capitalism…

  • Race & Racisms: A Critical Approach [Gabriel Review] Tanya Maria Golash-Boza, Race and Racisms: A Critical Approach (New York, London: Oxford University Press, 2014) Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Published online before print 2016-04-22 DOI: 10.1177/2332649216645801 Ricardo Gabriel The Graduate Center City University of New York Explaining to students that race is a social construction…

  • Why does the Misty Copeland Barbie doll look so … white? The Washington Post 2016-05-03 Sara L. Kaufman, Dance Critic The new Misty Copeland Barbie doll. Photographer Dennis Di Laura Stylist Sheryl Fetrick On Monday, Mattel rolled out a Barbie doll modeled on ballerina Misty Copeland, who broke the color barrier at American Ballet Theatre…

  • Coloring Outside The Lines With Interracial Marriage The Stony Brook Independent Stony Brook, New York 2016-05-02 Kayla Frazier, Staff Writer For Stony Brook student Shage Price, being the daughter of parents of different races led her to have questions about her looks early on. “I would always ask my mother why she married daddy and…