Category: Articles

  • We MUST Understand: Where is the ‘One-Drop Rule’ When We Need It Most? African-American News&Issues Houston, Texas 2016-03-04 Roy Douglas Malonson, Publisher In regards to ‘race matters’ I remember a much simpler time when we knew who was Black. Now I am aware that we have always had a few of us that have ‘passed’…

  • Film tells real-life story of Negroes “passing” as whites

  • White America’s Obama-era freakout: What research can tell us about racial animus since 2008 Salon 2016-04-17 Sean McElwee The election of America’s first black president somehow led even more conservative whites to change parties Racism may be the single most important feature of contemporary American politics and the key to understanding the Obama Presidency. This…

  • With ‘Keanu,’ Key & Peele Break Into Feature Films — With Kittens in Tow The New York Times 2016-04-20 Dave Itzkoff, Culture Reporter There is no longer “Key & Peele,” the razor-sharp Comedy Central sketch series that ended in September. There are only Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, the comic actors and writers who used…

  • Growing up in San Antonio, [Adriana] Brown said she struggled to find other representations of herself — an Afro-Latina woman from a working class family — both in her community and literature.

  • Our love was colour blind… but our families weren’t The Daily Mail London, United Kingdom 2016-02-05 Diana Appleyard and Clare Goldwin Deeply moving, and exposing tensions that still blight Britain today, mixed-race couples from four generations tell their stories ‘MY FATHER THREW ME OUT OF THE HOUSE’: 1940s MARY AND JAKE JACOBS Mary, 81, is…

  • The Psychosis of Whiteness: The Celluloid Hallucinations of Amazing Grace and Belle Journal of Black Studies Published online before print 2016-03-21 DOI: 10.1177/0021934716638802 Kehinde Andrews, Associate Professor in Sociology Birmingham City University, Birmingham, United Kingdom Critical Whiteness studies has emerged as an academic discipline that has produced a lot of work and garnered attention in…

  • About Latino Whiteness… The NiLP Report on Latino Politics & Policy The National Institute for Latino Policy 2016-04-10 CONTENTS “A Response to Linda Martín Alcoff’s ‘Latinos and the Category of Whiteness’” By Manuel Pastor (April 10, 2016) “Reply to Manuel Pastor” by Linda Martín Alcoff (April 10, 2016) Manuel Pastor, Professor of Sociology and American…

  • Perception and the Mulatto Body in Inquisitorial Spain: A Neurohistory* Past and Present First published online: 2016-04-16 DOI: 10.1093/pastj/gtw001 Cristian Berco, Associate Professor of History Bishop’s University, Quebec On 1 July 1625, their hands issuing from Dominican cloaks as black as night, inquisitors in Madrid voted to arrest Luisa Nuñez on suspicion of practising love…

  • “A Escrava Isaura,” the 1875 novel by Bernardo Guimarães, was one of a number of late 19th century works of fiction in Brazil that focused on abolitionism.