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  • Let’s Talk About Race (in Latin@ Communities)

    Let’s Talk About Race (in Latin@ Communities) NACLA Report on the Americas New York, New York 2014-10-16 Melissa M. Valle, Ph.D. candidate Columbia University, New York, New York While many trivialize race in Latin@ communities as abstract and irrelevant, Afro-Latin@s are still fighting a definitive racial hierarchy. They say that the Devil’s greatest trick is…

  • AN OCTOROON: THE OCTOROON an essay by James Leverett

    AN OCTOROON: THE OCTOROON an essay by James Leverett The Soho Repository New York, New York 2014-04-01 James Leverett, Professor (Adjunct) of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism Yale School of Drama There is melodrama in every tragedy, just as there is a child in every adult.” –Eric Bentley, Life of the Drama A Suggested Walk I…

  • ‘Did Somebody Say “Mulatto”?’ Speaking Critically on Mixed Heritage

    ‘Did Somebody Say “Mulatto”?’ Speaking Critically on Mixed Heritage The Huffington Post The Blog 2014-11-21 A. B. Wilkinson, Assistant Professor of History University of Nevada, Las Vegas Photograph: Ken Tanabe One of the main characters in the award-winning film Dear White People is a mixed “black and white” college student who works to make sense…

  • Returning to an ‘Impossible’ Role

    Amber Gray on ‘An Octoroon,’ at Soho Rep

  • Racial divide: It’s a social concept, not a scientific one

    Racial divide: It’s a social concept, not a scientific one The Washington Post 2014-11-03 Nancy Szokan Most scientists agree that race is not a biological concept. As Wikipedia defines it, in an extremely lengthy and extravagantly footnoted entry that surely has been edited and re-edited many times, “Race is a social concept used to categorize…

  • Old Times There Are Not Forgotten

    Old Times There Are Not Forgotten The New York Times 2014-05-04 Ben Brantley, Chief Theater Critic ‘An Octoroon,’ a Slave-Era Tale at Soho Rep Some people are paralyzed by self-consciousness. The playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is inspired, energized and perhaps even set free by it. You could say that he transforms self-consciousness into art, except then…

  • ‘A Chosen Exile,’ by Allyson Hobbs [Senna Review]

    ‘A Chosen Exile,’ by Allyson Hobbs [Senna Review] The New York Times Sunday Book Review 2014-11-21 Danzy Senna A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life By Allyson Hobbs; Illustrated. 382 pp. Harvard University Press. $29.95. One of the best birthday presents anybody ever gave me was a “calling card” by the…

  • “Global Mixed Race,” the 3rd biennial Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference, was held at DePaul University in Chicago Nov 13-15, 2014.

    “Global Mixed Race,” the 3rd biennial Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference, was held at DePaul University in Chicago Nov 13-15, 2014. News from the Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference 2014-11-18 Camilla Fojas, Vincent de Paul Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies DePaul University Photograph by Ken Tanabe A big thank you to the over…

  • How a biracial woman grew up thinking she was white

    How a biracial woman grew up thinking she was white Vox 2014-11-19 Jenée Desmond-Harris When Lacey Schwartz was accepted to Georgetown University, the school saw her photo and passed her name along to the black student association. The organization contacted her. The only issue: Schwartz had grown up in a Jewish household in Woodstock New…

  • Who You Really Are

    Who You Really Are GeneWatch Council for Responsible Genetics Volume 27, Issue 2 (May-July 2014) Robert Pollack, Professor of Biological Sciences, Earth Institute Professor, Adjunct Professor of Religion, Lecturer in Psychiatry Columbia University, New York, New York Patricia Williams, James L. Dohr Professor of Law Columbia University, New York, New York “International Biosciences offer a broad…