Category: Articles

  • Pao by Kerry Young – review The Guardian 2011-07-03 Ian Thomson Young, Kerry, Pao: A Novel (London, Oxford, New York, New Delhi, Sydney: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011) Kerry Young’s mesmerising first novel celebrates Jamaica’s ethnic melting pot, and the lost world of Kingston’s Chinatown Jamaica, where Kerry Young was born in 1955, is an island of…

  • Britain’s first black female High Court judge opens up about racism at the bar Legal Cheek London, United Kingdom 2016-03-30 Katie King, Reporter Clerks would Tippex out her name on briefs and write in the name of male pupil they wanted to be the tenant Dame Linda Dobbs has exposed shameful incidents of racism and…

  • 6 Afro-Latinos Open Up About What It Means To Be Black And Latino Latino Voices The Huffington Post 2016-03-23 Carolina Moreno, Editor Watch them explain why they’re both and they’re proud! Too black to be Latino and too Latino to be black is a feeling many Afro-Latinos know too well — but the reality is…

  • What Does my Body Mean? Mixed Roots Stories 2016-03-30 Carly Bates Carly Bates (Photo by: Bethany Brown) As a student of jazz at my university, I often occupy white male dominated spaces. I am the only woman of color (a black/white biracial woman) in a jazz history class, “Jazz Musicians as Composers,” a course that…

  • Trevor Noah: ‘It’s easier to be an angry white man than an angry black man’ The Guardian 2016-04-02 Lanre Bakare, Deputy Arts Editor Trevor Noah photographed at the Daily Show offices. Photograph: Christopher Lane Six months ago the South African comic took on the trickiest task in comedy; replacing Jon Stewart as host of the…

  • AmbryShare Restores Genes to the Public Domain The Huffington Post 2016-03-29 Amal Cheema, Biochemistry and Political Science Student Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts “As a stage four cancer survivor, I find it shocking that public and private laboratories routinely lock away vital genomic information. That practice is delaying medical progress, causing real human suffering, and it…

  • Among A Race Of Others: An Overview Of Western Racial Classification And Colourism Media Diversified 2016-04-01 Anthony Anaxagorou Recently, a friend asked what makes someone a ‘person of colour’. For many White people and for many people of colour too, the term can seem strangely ambiguous. The ongoing refugee crisis has seen thousands of displaced…

  • Synagogues Need to Welcome and Celebrate Jewish Diversity Tablet 2016-03-31 MaNishtana MaNishtana is the psuedonym of Shais Rishon, an Orthodox African-American Jewish blogger, editor-at-large at JN Magazine, and author of Thoughts From A Unicorn and Fine, thanks. How are YOU, Jewish? Follow him on Twitter @MaNishtana. Thoughts on the importance of the updated list of…

  • Blanket Fort Chats: Game Making With Meagan Byrne FemHype: the safe space for women & nonbinary gamers 2016-04-01 Miss N (Nicole Pacampara) “Blanket Fort Chats” is a weekly column featuring women and nonbinary game makers talking about the craft of making games. In this week’s post, we feature Meagan Byrne, a Toronto-based Game Design student…

  • Whiteness and Miscegenation: Ethnographic Notes, Social Classifications and Silences in the Brazilian Context Studi Culturali Volume VII, Number 1, April 2010 pages 87-102 DOI: 10.1405/31883 Valeria Ribeiro Corossacz Dipartimento di studi linguistici e culturali Università degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia This article presents some reflections from ongoing research on white upper-middle class men…