Category: Articles

  • For minorities in France, Obama still casts a spell France 24: International News 2012-08-09 Jon Frosch Though his reputation among blacks and Arabs in France is showing ever-so-slight signs of wear and tear, US President Barack Obama remains a powerful symbol for French citizens of colour. France24.com takes a closer look. When Barack Obama was…

  • Argentina: Land of the Vanishing Blacks Ebony Magazine October 1973 pages 74-85 Era Bell Thompson Once outnumbering whites five to one, blacks were absorbed and inundated by massive immigration “If you are looking for black people, why,” they asked helpfully, “did you come to Argentina? Why don’t you go to Brazil?” Well, I had been…

  • Afroargentines The Argentina Independent 2007-03-23 Laura Balfour As a descendant of two slaves, Maria Lamadrid has a hard time biting her tongue when airport officials think her Argentine passport is not real because ‘there are no blacks in Argentina’.   And that was in 2002.   The 25th of March marks the landmark 200th anniversary…

  • The reawakening of Afro-Argentine culture Global Post 2009-08-30 Anil Mundra Descendants of slaves are starting to assert their identity but it’s not easy in South America’s whitest country. BUENOS AIRES — “Liberty has no color” read the signs held outside a Buenos Aires city courthouse. “Arrested for having the wrong face,” and “Suspected of an…

  • Rutgers Group Brings Students Together to Explore the Complexities of Being Multiracial Focus Rutgers University News September 2012 Carrie Stetler By 2050, one in five Americans is likely to be multiracial It’s a question Joan Gan hears a lot: “What are you?” She instantly knows what it means. Her father is Chinese and her mother…

  • Mixed-race teen in the middle: who will she choose? Tampa Bay Times St. Petersburg, Florida 2012-09-23 Leonora LaPeter Anton, Times Staff Writer Her dark eyes scanned the fluorescent-lit lunchroom, locking onto her friends in the center of the chaos. Her thoughts sprayed in many directions: the upcoming eighth-grade formal, a surprisingly bad grade she recently…

  • Poet to discuss biracialism during UHV/ABR Fall Reading Series University of Houston-Victoria Newswire Victoria, Texas 2012-09-20 Born to a Chinese mother and a Norwegian father, award-winning author Paisley Rekdal’s mixed heritage often influences her poetry and essay writing. She will share her insights about biracialism on Sept. 27 as the second speaker in the University…

  • ‘The Black Count,’ A Hero On The Field, And The Page Weekend Edition Saturday National Public Radio 2012-09-15 Scott Simon, Host Tom Reiss, Author The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal,and the Real Count of Monte Cristo. By Tom Reiss, 432 pp. Crown Publishers. Hardback ISBN: 978-0-307-38246-7. Gen. Thomas-Alexandre Dumas was one of the heroes of the…

  • Theater; On Hearing Her Sing, Gershwin Made ‘Porgy’ ‘Porgy and Bess’ The New York Times 1998-03-29 Barry Singer In his tragically short life, George Gershwin knew only one Bess, and this bittersweet fact has framed Anne Wiggins Brown’s life. She was that Bess in the original production of Gershwin’s operatic masterwork based on Dorothy and…

  • Indian Lords, Hispanic Gentlemen: The Salazars of Colonial Tlaxcala The Americas Volume 69, Number 1, July 2012 pages 1-36 DOI: 10.1353/tam.2012.0060 Peter B. Villella, Assistant Professor of History University of North Carolina, Greensboro In 1773, a Mexico City expert in gold embroidery named don José Mariano Sánchez de Salazar Zitlalpopoca petitioned for a license to…