Category: Articles

  • Interview with Kym Ragusa: (Passing) Reel New York: Season 2 thirteen: WNET New York From Week Four (May 1997) Kathy High, Series Curator Series curator Kathy High conducted this telephone interview with Kym Ragusa in May, 1997. Q: The first question I’d like to ask you, Kym, is what prompted you to make the piece?…

  • Documenting Race and Gender: Kym Ragusa Discusses “Passing” and “Fuori/Outside” Women’s Studies Quarterly Volume 30, Numbers 1/2, Looking Across the Lens: Women’s Studies and Film (Spring – Summer, 2002) pages 213-220 Livia Tenzer, Managing Editor Social Text In her two award-winning short documentaries Passing (1996) and Fuori/Outside (1997), New York-based filmmaker Kym Ragusa explores the…

  • Conference Keynote: White Privilege and the Biopolitics of Race Understanding and Dismantling Privilege Volume 1, Number 1 (2010) 16 pages Online ISSN: 2152-1875 10th Annual White Privilege Conference Keynote Address Saturday, April 4, 2009 Memphis, Tennessee Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology; Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of…

  • The Realities of Races Is Race “Real”? A web forum organized by the Social Science Research Council 2006-06-07 Jonathan Marks, Professor of Anthropology University of North Carolina, Charlotte Introduction Anthropologists have been studying race for over 200 years now, and contrary to what seems to be conventional wisdom (at least as articulated in Leroi’s New…

  • Afro-Latino forum fosters dialogue on colorism, lived experiences The Tufts Daily The independent student newspaper of Tufts University 2011-12-01 Brionna Jimerson Gabrielle Hernandez Academic study and lived experience converged last night at the Afro−Latino Roundtable Forum, where an assembly of over 50 students, faculty and visiting speakers participated in a dialogue about the Afro−Latino experience…

  • Fifty years after Frantz Fanon: beyond diversity Advances in Psychiatric Treatment Volume 18, Number 1 (January 2012) pages 25-31 DOI: 10.1192/apt.bp.110.008847 Adedapo Sikuade Frantz Fanon (1925–1961), a West Indian of mixed race, was a French colonial psychiatrist trained in Lyon, France, who worked mainly in colonial North Africa between 1953 and 1957. He was one…

  • Black, White, Other: Racial categories are cultural constructs masquerading as biology Natural History Volume 103, Number 12 (December 1994) pages 32-35 Jonathan Marks, Professor of Anthropology University of North Carolina, Charlotte While reading the Sunday edition of the New York Times one morning last February, my attention was drawn by an editorial inconsistency. The article…

  • Negra & Beautiful: The Unique Challenges Faced By Afro-Latinas Latina 2011-11-29 Damarys Ocaña, Freelance Journalist The frustrating ironies of being Afro-Latina hit Yuly Marshall with stunning regularity: At work at a Miami hospital, Hispanic patients of the Cuban-born radiology technician usually assume she’s African American, asking her, “Where did you learn to speak Spanish like…

  • “White Slaves” and the “Arrogant Mestiza”: Reconfiguring Whiteness in The Squatter and the Don and Ramona American Literature Volume 69, Number 4 (December, 1997) pages 813-839 David Luis-Brown, Associate Professor of Cultural Studies and English Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California In Helen Hunt Jackson’s Ramona (1884) and The Squatter and the Don (1885) by Maria…

  • Marley class inspires UM students South Florida Times 2009-09-08 Juliana Accioly CORAL GABLES — On a recent weekday, students at the University of Miami watched a screen in front of a blackboard ignite with lively performances of music legend Bob Marley. Then, suddenly, those images were juxtaposed with graphic footage of segregation and violence. When…