Category: Articles

  • ‘Belle’: Romance, Race And Slavery With Jane Austen Style National Public Radio Tell Me More 2014-05-29 Michel Martin, Host British actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw was brought up on Jane Austen adaptations. “You know, the Pride and Prejudice with Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle was something I watched on a weekly basis with my mum at home…

  • China’s economic engagement in Africa can be measured in dollars — for instance, the $71 million airport expansion contract in Mali, funded by American foreign aid, that went to a Chinese construction firm. More remarkably, it can be measured in people: More than a million Chinese citizens have permanently moved to Africa, buying land, starting…

  • “You Just Said ‘We’”: The complexity of not being White and not being a person of color. Nick Franco May 2014 Nick Franco, Coordinator for the Student Affairs/SOLES Collaborative University of San Diego This past Tuesday night, I did a mock presentation of my dissertation proposal for my dissertation seminar course. It went fairly well,…

  • The Color Of Health: Skin Color, Ethnoracial Classification, And Discrimination In The Health Of Latin Americans Social Science & Medicine Available online: 2014-06-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.05.054 Krista M. Perreira, Professor of Public Policy and Associate Dean Office for Undergraduate Research University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Edward E. Telles, Professor of Sociology Princeton University, Princeton, New…

  • Mo Asumang: Confronting racism face-to-face BBC News Magazine 2014-05-13 Mo Asumang is the daughter of a black Ghanaian father and a white German mother. As a well-known TV presenter in Germany she became the target of racist extreme right-wingers and neo-Nazis, who based their attacks on Asumang’s “non-Aryan” background. So she decided to look into…

  • What is Luring a Million Chinese to Africa? OZY 2014-05-15 Jacob Kushner Like immigrants the world over, the million Chinese who’ve landed in Africa are plucky, hugely ambitious and have an eye for opportunity. They’re also helping make China a big player on a continent once dominated by the West. You’ve seen the headlines: China…

  • Almost Free: A Story about Family and Race in Antebellum Virginia by Eva Sheppard Wolf (reweiw) [Watkins] Journal of the Early Republic Volume 33, Number 3, Fall 2013 pages 575-577 DOI: 10.1353/jer.2013.0062 Andrea S. Watkins Wolf, Eva Sheppard, Almost Free: A Story about Family and Race in Antebellum Virginia (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012)…

  • Mixed Remixed Festival Reveals 2014 Schedule Mixed Remixed Festival March 2014 Heidi Durrow (Los Angeles, CA) The Mixed Remixed Festival will take place at the Japanese American National Museum in downtown Los Angeles (100 N. Central Avenue), June 14, 2014. The Festival celebrates stories of the Mixed experience and stories of multiracial Americans, the fastest…

  • Herb Jeffries cheerfully pays the price of choosing his race

  • A Verboten Topic: Elliot Rodger, ‘Mixed Race’ Identity, Internalized Racism, and Mental Health We Are Respectable Negroes: Happy Non-Threatening Coloured Folks, Even the Age of Obama Wednesday, 2014-05-28 Chauncey Devega, Editor and Founder The 24/7 news cycle is not interested in finding the truth about a given matter, and then subsequently offering up useful information…