Category: Articles

  • Author Q&A: Jessica Maria Tuccelli The Washington Independent Review of Books 2012-05-29 In the autumn of 1941, Amelia J. McGee, a young woman of Cherokee and Scotch-Irish descent, and an outspoken pamphleteer for the NAACP, hastily sends her daughter, Ella, alone on a bus home to Georgia in the middle of the night — a…

  • The future of whiteness Salon 2012-05-29 Michael Lind Both Republican and Democratic racial politics are doomed. How culture shifts will reshape American ideas on race The Census Bureau has announced that a majority of new-born infants in the U.S. now belong to categories other than what the U.S. federal government calls “non-Hispanic white.”   While…

  • Neither Fish, Flesh, nor Fowl: Race and Region in the Writings of Charles W. Chesnutt African American Review Volume 34, Number 3 (Autumn, 2000) pages 461-473 Anne Fleischmann The Supreme Court’s decision in The 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson case is notorious for having sewn racial segregation into the fabric of American society. One of the…

  • In a story that quickly went viral, The Times’s Jackie Calmes wrote last week about the photograph, which was taken three years ago when the boy, then 5, visited the White House. It has hung there ever since, left on the wall even as other pictures were swapped out, as is the custom, for newer,…

  • Obama, Zombies, and Black Male Messiahs In Media Res 2009-10-01 Elizabeth McAlister, Associate Professor of Religion, African American Studies and American Studies Wesleyan University Insofar as they occupy the symbolic place of messiah in these zombie apocalypses, it interesting that from Ben in Night, to Peter in Dawn, and John in Day, to Robert Neville…

  • Framing a Deterritorialized, Hybrid Alternative to Nationalist Essentialism in the Postcolonial Era: Tjalie Robinson and the Diasporic Eurasian “Indo” Community Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies Volume 16, Numbers 1/2, (Spring/Fall 2007) pages 1-28 DOI: 10.1353/dsp.2007.0002 Jeroen Dewulf, Queen Beatrix Professor in Dutch Studies University of California, Berkeley In her study of Transnational South Asians…

  • Slaves, Cannibals, and Infected Hyper-Whites: The Race and Religion of Zombies Anthropological Quarterly Volume 85, Number 2, Spring 2012 pages 457-486 DOI: 10.1353/anq.2012.0021 Elizabeth McAlister, Associate Professor of Religion, African American Studies and American Studies Wesleyan University The first decade of the new millennium saw renewed interest in popular culture featuring zombies. This essay shows…

  • An Estimate of Assimilation Rate of Mixed-Blood Aborigines in New South Wales Oceania Volume 32, Number 3 (March, 1962) pages 187-190 J. Le Gay Brereton Some anthropologists have suggested that the Aboriginal population of New South Wales (very largely mixed-bloods) will prefer integration to assimilation. It is therefore important to obtain some estimate of the…

  • Examining the Legacy of European Names in the Elmina-Cape Coast Area of Ghana Afroeuropa: Journal of Afroeuropean Studies Volume 1, Number 3 (2007) 22 pages Amma Kyerewaa Akrofi Texas Tech University Lawrence Owusu-Ansah Texas Tech University The prevalence of European family and place names in Fante areas of Ghana is one of the best known…

  • Does The Heritage Controversy Tell Us More About Warren Or The Media? Radio Boston WBUR 2012-05-22 Dan Mauzy, Associate Producer Hosts Meghna Chakrabarti, Co-Host Anthony Brooks, Co-Host Guests Kevin Noble Maillard, Associate Professor of Law (member of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma) Syracuse University David Catanese, National Political Reporter Politico Here’s a bit of a…