Category: Articles

  • Obama hails Mandela ‘inspiration’ in South Africa visit BBC News 2013-06-29 US President Barack Obama has praised Nelson Mandela as “an inspiration to the world” while visiting South Africa. The US leader, who was speaking in Pretoria after talks with President Jacob Zuma, does not intend to visit the 94-year-old, who has been critically ill…

  • ‘Soy Yo!’: Play explores being multi-racial in a world where race matters St. Louis Beacon 2013-06-26 Nancy Fowler Parents, can you even imagine being accused of kidnapping your own children? It happened to Shari LeKane-Yentumi of University City. The reason was race. She’s white, her husband’s black. Their three children are both; and in our…

  • Solo Show at 2013 Hollywood Fringe Festival Examines Notions of Racial Identity Contact: Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni Email: onedropoflove@gmail.com Website: http://www.onedropoflove.com/ May 2013 (Los Angeles, Calif.) — When actress and playwright Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni married the love of her life in 2006, her father did not walk her down the aisle. In fact, he declined to…

  • Rare Visit Underscores Tangles in Obama’s Ties to Africa The New York Times 2013-06-26 Michael D. Shear, Nicholas Kulish and Lydia Polgreen DAKAR, Senegal — As a freshman senator from Illinois, Barack Obama told a packed auditorium in Kenya’s capital, “I want you all to know that as your ally, your friend and your brother,…

  • Gilberto Freyre: The Reassessment Continues Latin American Research Review Volume 43, Number 1, 2008 pages 208-218 DOI: 10.1353/lar.2008.0002 David Lehmann, Reader in Social Science University of Cambridge Gilberto Freyre e os estudos latino-americanos. Edited by Joshua Lund and Malcolm McNee. Pittsburgh: Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, Universidad de Pittsburgh, 2006. Pp. 399. Casa-grande e senzala.…

  • Podcast interview with Paisley Rekdal, poet and 2013 UNT Rilke Prize winner University of North Texas, Denton, Texas 2013-04-29 Julie K. West, Publications Specialist Office of Research and Economic Development Poet Paisley Rekdal is the 2013 recipient of the University of North Texas Rilke Prize. The $10,000 award, named for the great German poet, Rainer…

  • Some Thoughts on Biracialism and Poetry Boston Review 2013-06-13 Paisley Rekdal, Associate Professor of English University of Utah To be a biracial and female writer might suggest one of two things: first, that my gender and race are the subject matter of my work or, second, that the forms of my writing reflect my identity.…

  • Census Bureau Names Ann Morning to National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic and Other Populations Newsroom, News Release: CB13-R.30 United States Census Bureau 2013-06-26 Public Information Office, Phone: 301-763-3030 Note from Steven F. Riley: Ann Morning is the author of book The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach about Human Difference (University of California Press,…

  • Cherokee Phoenix: Remarks on the Report of the Committee on Indian Affairs in the House of Representatives Cherokee Phoenix and Indians’ Advocate New Echota, Georgia Wednesday, 1830-03-30 Volume II, Number 50 Page 1, column 1b; Page 2, column 2b Source: Hunter Library, Western Carolina University and Georgia Historic Newspapers We have read that part of…

  • Guest: The fury over a Cheerios ad and an interracial family The Seattle Times 2013-06-24 Ralina Joseph, Associate Professor of Communication University of Washington The response to a Cheerios TV ad exposes American discomfort with interracial families, writes guest columnist Ralina Joseph A RECENT Cheerios television ad has all of the elements that viewers usually…