Category: Articles

  • Revisiting Middlebury’s Racial History The Middlebury Campus Middlebury College Middlebury, Vermont 2014-03-19 Conor Grant, Managing Editor Alexander Twilight Hall, a building named in honor of Alexander Twilight of the class of 1823, is just one part of the complicated legacy of America’s first black college graduate. (Courtesy/Middlebury) Alexander Twilight Hall — the austere brick building…

  • Skin tone, biracial stratification and tri-racial stratification among sperm donors Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 37,  Issue 3, 2014 (Special Issue: Race, Migration and Identity: Shifting Boundaries in the USA) pages 517-536 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2012.696666 Carol S. Walther, Assistant Professor of Sociology Northern Illinois University Conception through donor insemination is an attractive option for many couples and…

  • Professor Harris examines how whiteness, initially constructed as a form of racial identity, evolved into a form of property, historically and presently acknowledged and protected in American law. Professor Harris traces the origins of whiteness as property in the parallel systems of domination of Black and Native American peoples out of which were created racially…

  • Appointment of new Chancellor University of Salford, Manchester News 2014-10-17 The distinguished award-winning writer of fiction, poetry and plays, Jackie Kay MBE, has been appointed as our new Chancellor. Jackie, who takes up the position immediately, takes over from the University’s previous Chancellor, Dr Irene Khan who stepped down earlier this year after her five-year…

  • Mixed Race Irish group seek redress amid claims of racist abuse in industrial schools The Irish Examiner Dublin, Ireland 2014-10-22 Noel Baker, Senior Reporter Mixed Race Irish group seek redress amid claims of racist abuse in industrial schools Mixed-race Irish who spent time in industrial schools will today claim they faced physical, emotional, and sexual…

  • Award-winning author and poet Jackie Kay appointed as University of Salford’s new chancellor Manchester Evening News Manchester, England 2014-10-19 Dean Kirby Jackie Kay MBE succeeds Dr Irene Khan at the University of Salford, who stepped down earlier this year after her five-year term came to an end An award-winning writer of fiction, poetry and plays…

  • Olive Senior Olive Senior’s Gardening in the Tropics 2012 Hyacinth M. Simpson, Associate Professor of English Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Olive Marjorie Senior was born in the parish of Trelawny on the Caribbean island of Jamaica on 23 December 1941. The seventh of ten children, she grew up in the shadow of the Cockpit…

  • The many meanings of the Haitian declaration of independence OUPblog: Oxford University Press’s Academic Insights for the Thinking World 2014-01-03 Philippe R. Girard, Associate Professor of History McNeese State University, Lake Charles, Louisiana Two hundred and ten years ago, on 1 January 1804, Haiti formally declared its independence from France at the end of a…

  • Children (but not adults) judge similarity in own- and other-race faces by the color of their skin Journal of Experimental Child Psychology Volume 130, February 2015 pages 56–66 DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2014.09.009 Benjamin Balas, Assistant Professor of Psychology North Dakota State University Jessie Peissig, Associate Professor of Psychology California State University, Fullerton Margaret Moulson, Assistant Professor &…

  • Confederate officer’s wartime diary decoded The Associated Press 2014-10-13 Chris Carola SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) — A century and a half after Confederate officer James Malbone wrote his Civil War diary partly in code, a couple of Yankees have figured out why he took the precaution: He liked to gossip. Sprinkled amid entries on camp…