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  • Crossed Lines in the Racialization Process: Race as a Border Concept

    Crossed Lines in the Racialization Process: Race as a Border Concept Research in Phenomenology Volume 42, Issue 2 (2012) pages 206-228 DOI: 10.1163/156916412X651201 Robert Bernasconi, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy and African American Studies Pennsylvania State University The phenomenological approach to racialization needs to be supplemented by a hermeneutics that examines the history of…

  • Voice of the voiceless? Multiethnic student voices in critical approaches to race, pedagogy, literacy and agency

    Voice of the voiceless? Multiethnic student voices in critical approaches to race, pedagogy, literacy and agency Linguistics and Education Volume 24, Issue 3, September 2013 pages 348–360 DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2013.03.005 Benji Chang, Adjunct Assistant Professor and Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Curriculum & Teaching Teachers College, Columbia University, New York In this article, the author utilizes critical…

  • ‘Belle’ breaks through the aristocratic color barrier

    ‘Belle’ breaks through the aristocratic color barrier USA Today 2013-07-21 Bryan Alexander British actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw used to envy her classmates from the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London as they moved on to perform in lavish English period dramas. But as an actress of color, she found it difficult to land such…

  • Trayvon Martin, Race and Anthropology

    Trayvon Martin, Race and Anthropology Anthropology News American Anthropological Association 2013-07-19 Leith Mullings, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology City University of New York (and President of the American Anthropological Association) On February 26, 2012, 28-year-old George Zimmerman shot and killed an unarmed 17-year-old African American teenager who, after buying Skittles and iced tea at the local…

  • Trayvon Martin and Making Whiteness Visible

    If there’s one good thing to come out of the George Zimmerman verdict, it’s the acknowledgement of white privilege

  • Obama on Trayvon Martin: The first black president speaks out first as a black American

    Obama on Trayvon Martin: The first black president speaks out first as a black American The Washington Post 2013-07-20 David Maraniss Trayvon Martin, the president said, could have been him 35 years ago. That would have been Barack Obama at age 17, then known as Barry and living in Honolulu. He had a bushy Afro.…

  • Weeding Out the Riffraff

    Weeding Out the Riffraff The New York Times Home & Garden 2013-07-17 Penelope Green, Editor At Home With Sheila Bridges Sheila Bridges played the cancer card only once, when a state trooper stopped her for speeding on the Taconic Parkway. At the time, Ms. Bridges, the interior designer Time magazine once celebrated as one of…

  • Race Remixed? — Probationary Whites and a Racism Reality Check

    Race Remixed? — Probationary Whites and a Racism Reality Check Living Anthropologically: Anthropology – Understanding – Possibility 2011-30-28 (Updated July 2013) Jason Antrosio, Associate Professor of Anthropology Hartwick College, Oneonta, New York This is an update to the original article, “Race Remixed?” from March 28, 2011. Update July 2013: In the wake of Trayvon Martin…

  • Obama, from Rev. Wright to Trayvon Martin

    Obama, from Rev. Wright to Trayvon Martin The Washington Post 2013-07-20 Dan Balz, Chief Correspondent President Obama’s comments on Friday about the killing of Trayvon Martin were remarkable in many respects, but not least because of the distance he has traveled since the equally notable speech he delivered in 2008 during the controversy about his…

  • Barack and Trayvon

    Barack and Trayvon The New York Times 2013-07-19 Charles M. Blow, Visual Op-Ed Columnist On Friday President Obama picked at America’s racial wound, and it bled a bit. Despite persistent attempts by some to divest the Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman tragedy of its racial resonance, the president refused to allow it. During a press briefing, Mr.…