Category: Articles

  • Black Is, Black Ain’t: Biracials, Middle-Class Blacks, and the Social Construction of Blackness Sociological Spectrum Volume 30,  Issue 6, 2010 pages 639-670 DOI: 10.1080/02732173.2010.510057 Cherise A. Harris, Associate Professor of Sociology Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut Nikki Khanna, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Vermont Several scholars claim that group cohesion among black Americans is…

  • Are Biracial Children Damaged? HERS Magazine November/December 2014 page 36 Cherrye S. Vasquez Approximately seven years ago, I was engaged in what I thought was a friendly conversation with a group of ladies at my work. As mothers, we often talked about our daily activities our children were engaged in. Our conversations were personal, easy…

  • Negro? Prieto? Moreno? A Question of Identity for Black Mexicans The New York Times 2014-10-25 Randal C. Archibold, Bureau Chief for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean JOSÉ MARÍA MORELOS, Mexico — Hernán Reyes calls himself “negro” — black — plain and simple. After some thought, Elda Mayren decides she is “Afromexicana,” or African-Mexican. Candido…

  • Portlander Damaris Webb explores racial gray areas in ‘The Box Marked Black’ The Oregonian Portland, Oregon 2013-02-16 Marty Hughley When it came time for Damaris Webb to apply for college, her father encouraged her to check the box on application forms indicating “black” as her racial origin. For long enough in his family’s history, being…

  • William Makepeace Thackeray: Racist? OUPblog: Oxford University Press’s Academic Insights for the Thinking World 2011-07-18 John Sutherland, Lord Northcliffe Professor Emeritus of Modern English Literature University College, London We can never know the Victorians as well as they knew themselves. Nor–however well we annotate our texts–can we read Victorian novels as responsively as Victorians read…

  • Maryland’s Never Elected A Black Governor, But Neither Have 47 Other States WYPR 88.1 FM Baltimore Maryland 2014-10-24 Christopher Connelly, Political Reporter Before President Barack Obama joined Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown on stage at a get out the vote rally in Prince George’s County Sunday, Dr. Grainger Browning of Ebenezer A.M.E. Church in Fort Washington…

  • Discussing Race and Education in Brazil HASTAC: Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory 2014-09-12 Christina Davidson Department of History Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Yesterday at lunch, Maria Lúcia and I sat with a graduate of UFRRJ and an Educação a Distancia tutor for the university, who was headed to the Universidade Federal…

  • One Drop: Drexel professor’s new book explores what determines blackness The Philadelphia Inquirer 2013-11-26 UNLESS YOU want an earful, don’t get Drexel University professor Yaba Blay talking about colorism. She sees examples of discrimination based on skin color everywhere – from drug stores that stock skin-bleaching creams to the online chatter that erupts when photos…

  • “The Box Marked Black” is coming to Willamette University Oct. 24-25 Willamette University News Salem, Oregon 2014-10-02 What does it mean to be black? Is it the shade of your skin or the kink in your hair? Is it learned? These questions are explored in “The Box Marked Black: Tales from a Halfrican American growing…

  • Performance added for one-woman play at Willamette U. The Salem Statesman-Journal Salem, Oregon 2014-10-13 Tom Mayhall Rastrelli, Fine Arts & Culture Writer Damaris Webb will debut her one-woman play “The Box Marked Black: Tales from a Halfrican American growing up Mulatto. With sock puppets!” at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 24 and 25 at M. Lee Pelton Theatre,…