Category: Articles

  • The Policing of Race Mixing: The Place of Biopower within the History of Racisms Journal of Bioethical Inquiry Volume 7, Number 2 (2010) pages 205-216 DOI: 10.1007/s11673-010-9224-8 Robert Bernasconi, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy and African American Studies Pennsylvania State University In this paper I investigate a largely untold chapter in the history of…

  • U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey coming to campus East Carolina University Greenville, North Carolina 2012-10-24 through 2012-10-25 United States Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey will be on campus Oct. 24-25 as part of the Contemporary Writers Series. A native of Gulfport, Miss., Trethewey was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 2006. She is professor of…

  • Black Like Obama: What the Junior Illinois Senator’s Appearance on the National Scene Reveals About Race in America, and Where We Should Go from Here Thurgood Marshall Law Review Volume 31 (2005) pages 79-100 Amos N. Jones, Professor of Law Campbell University, Raleigh, North Carolina Given Americans’ warm bipartisan response to Senator Barack Obama’s keynote…

  • “May she read liberty in your eyes?” Beecher, Boucicault and the Representation and Display of Antebellum Women’s Racially Indeterminate Bodies Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism Volume 26, Number 2, Spring 2012 pages. 127-144 DOI: 10.1353/dtc.2012.0007 Lisa Merrill, Professor of Speech Communication, Rhetoric, Performance Studies Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York Prelude In 1856 Reverend Henry…

  • Becoming black, becoming president Patterns of Prejudice Volume 45, Issue 1-2, 2011 pages 62-85 DOI: 10.1080/0031322X.2011.563145 Richard H. King, Professor Emeritus of American and Canadian Studies University of Nottingham Speculation about the relationship between Barack Obama’s election to the presidency and race in the United States was rife prior to, during and after his successful…

  • Olympic Swimmer Neal Built Her Dream in Brooklyn The New York Times 2012-07-15 William C. Rhoden, Sports Columnist Lia Neal (Al Bello/Getty Images) Rome and Siu Neal with their grandson Rome Jin, their son Rome Kyn and his wife Ziggy (Victor J. Blue for The New York Times) Rome Neal walked up to the microphone…

  • Black-Yellow Fences: Multicultural Boundaries and Whiteness in the Rush Hour Franchise Critical Studies in Media Communication Published Online: 2012-07-06 DOI: 10.1080/15295036.2012.697634 David C. Oh, Visiting Professor of Communications Villanova University The Rush Hour films disrupt the interracial buddy cop formula largely by erasing whites from the films. Despite the unconventional casting, the franchise has achieved…

  • Two Classes, Divided by ‘I Do’ The New York Times 2012-07-15 Jason Deparle          Also see the video, “Single and Unequal” by Shayla Harris here. ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Jessica Schairer has so much in common with her boss, Chris Faulkner, that a visitor to the day care center they run might get them confused.…

  • Destiny’s Child: Obama and Election ’08 boundary 2: an international journal of literature and culture Volume 39, Number 2 (Summer 2012) pages 3-32 DOI: 10.1215/01903659-1597871 Hortense Spillers, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English Vanderbilt University “Destiny’s Child: Obama and Election ’08” interrogates the election of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States as…

  • Fostering Mixed-Race Children in Ukraine: ‘Family Portrait in Black and White’ The New York Times 2012-07-13 Neil Genzlinger, Television Critic Olga Nenya and her foster and adopted children in 2008, in front of their house in Ukraine, as seen in the documentary directed by Julia Ivanova. First Pond Entertainment “Family Portrait in Black and White,”…