Category: Articles

  • UNC professor studies race, drug abuse The Daily Tar Heel University of North Carolina 2014-01-13 Erin Davis Growing up in rural North Carolina, Trenette Clark watched as some loved ones went to jail at young ages and others lost their children to the Child Welfare System. She came to wonder why some drug users’ behavior…

  • Concubinage Law Reaches Negro Only Lafayette Adviser Lafayette, Louisiana Friday, 1910-04-29 page 1, columns 3-4 Source: Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (Library of Congress) By Vote of 3 to 2 Supreme Court Upholds Decision of the Lower Court. LOUISIANA STATUTE HELD TO BE OF LIMITED SCOPE. Mulattoes, Quadroons and Octaroons Not  included—Opinion Read by Justice…

  • Challenging a Pan-African Identity: The Autobiographical Writings of Maya Angelou, Barack Obama, and Caryl Phillips Journal of American Studies Volume 45, Issue 3 (August 2011) pages 483-502 DOI: 10.1017/S0021875810002410 Gregory D. Smithers, Visiting Associate Professor of History Virginia Commonwealth University In her 1986 book All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes, Maya Angelou reflected on the…

  • The Black Irish Onscreen: Representing Black and Mixed-Race Identities on Irish Film and Television [Galvin Review] Film Ireland Temple Bar, Dublin, Ireland 2014-01-13 Steven Galvin, Editor Dr Zélie Asava introduces her book The Black Irish Onscreen: Representing Black and Mixed-Race Identities on Irish Film and Television, a critical investigation of race in contemporary Irish visual…

  • A Daughter Discovers Branches of the Family Tree Pruned by Her Father The New York Times 2007-11-07 Mimi Read NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 6 — In a white-box living room in an apartment on lower St. Charles Avenue here, the dining table was set for a family party: plastic bowls of chips, dip and salsa; a…

  • The Bots Are Taking Over The New York Times Magazine 2013-12-20 Julie Bosman Photographs by Rebecca Smeyne Mikaiah and Anaiah Lei, the brothers from Los Angeles who make up the band the Bots, have been writing and playing rock songs together for seven years. Now 20 and 17, they are on the cusp of stardom…

  • “The Average Man”—Did You Ever Size Him Up?—The Human Melting Pot The Day Book Chicago, Illinois 1914-04-04 pages 3-4 Source: Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (Library of Congress) Herbert Quick No phrase is more abused and overworked than the expression. “the average man.” Whenever a person uses it, he refers to a being in which…

  • The Mixed Marriage The New York Times 2014-01-11 Interview by Lise Funderburg Lise Funderburg, a journalist, interviewed Yael Ben-Zion, a photographer raised in Israel, about her new book, “Intermarried,” published by Kehrer, which features families from the Washington Heights neighborhood where she lives with her French husband and 5-year-old twins. Q. What inspired this project?…

  • Afro-Vietnamese Orphans Tell Their Stories in ‘Indochina: Traces of a Mother’ Black Film Center/Archive Indiana University, Bloomington 2012-04-25 A new(er) documentary film by Idrissou Mora-Kpai follows the stories of Afro-Vietnamese orphans born of Vietnamese mothers and West African fathers – tirailleurs sénégalais – brought by the French to fight la sale guerre, mostly in today’s…

  • Overturning Anti-Miscegenation Laws: News Media Coverage of the Lovings’ Legal Case Against the State of Virginia Journal of Black Studies Volume 43, Number 4 (May 2012) pages 427-443 DOI: 10.1177/0021934711428070 Jennifer Hoewe College of Communications Pennsylvania State University, University Park Geri Alumit Zeldes, Associate Professor School of Journalism Michigan State University This study fills a…