Category: Biography

  • Acclaimed author reveals secret Scottish roots in moving tribute Daily Record Glasgow, Scotland 2011-05-08 Maggie Barry Sunday Mail Writer Aminatta Forna has been called many things in her life but never Scottish—until today. The African author’s fearless books exposing betrayal and treachery in Sierra Leone have brought critical acclaim and awards. But only now has…

  • Melville Jean Herskovits American Anthropologist Volume 66, Issue 1 (February 1964) pages 83-109 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1964.66.1.02a00080 Alan P. Merriam Melville Jean Herskovits (1895-1963) Melville Jean Herskovits was born in Bellefontaine, Ohio, September 10, 1895, and spent his childhood there and in Texas. In 1920 he took his Ph.B. at the University of Chicago, and later came…

  • Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge University of Nebraska Press 2004 357 pages ISBN: 978-0-8032-2187-1 Jerry Gershenhorn, Professor of History North Carolina Central University Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge is the first full-scale biography of the trailblazing anthropologist of African and African American cultures. Born into a world…

  • Standing on Both Feet: Voices of Older Mixed-Race Americans Paradigm Publishers December 2011 208 pages 6×9 ISBN: 978-1-59451-982-6 Cathy J. Tashiro, PhD, RN, Associate Professor of Nursing University of Washington, Tacoma In the first book to focus on the experiences of older American of mixed race identity, Cathy Tashiro explores questions of identity and the…

  • The Black-and-White World of Walter Ashby Plecker The Virginian-Pilot 2004-08-18 Warren Fiske Lacy Branham Hearl closes her eyes and travels eight decades back to what began as a sweet childhood. There was family everywhere: her parents, five siblings, nine sets of adoring aunts and uncles and more cousins than she could count. They all lived…

  • Interview with Zara Paul: A Future Leader London School of Economics 2011-10-26 Zara Paul recently graduated from LSE. She has been listed among the top 100 black graduates of the UK in the Future Leaders magazine 2011-12. In this interview she talks about her time at LSE, her passion for music, what being mixed race…

  • Black devils, white saints and mixedrace femme fatales: Philippa Schuyler and the winds of change Critical Arts Volume 25, Issue 3 (2011) Special Issue: The Afropessimism Phenomenon pages 360-376 DOI: 10.1080/02560046.2011.615140 Daniel R. McNeil, Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies Newcastle University, United Kingdom This article sheds new light on abstract definitions of Afropessimism by analysing…

  • Barack Obama in Hawai’i and Indonesia: The Making of a Global President ABC-CLIO Praeger September 2011 276 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-313-38533-9 Electronic ISBN: 978-0-313-38534-6 Dinesh Sharma, Senior Fellow Institute for International and Cross-Cultural Research St. Francis College, New York Distinguishing itself from the mass of political biographies of Barack Obama,…

  • To Make a New Race: Gurdjieff, Toomer, and the Harlem Renaissance University Press of Mississippi 1999 202 pages Cloth: 157806130X (9781578061303) Paper: 1578061318 (9781578061310) Jon Woodson, Professor of English Howard University, Washington, D.C. Jean Toomer’s adamant stance against racism and his call for a raceless society were far more complex than the average reader of…

  • Voorhees author addresses growing up biracial South Jersery Sunne.ws 2011-10-17 Sean Patrick Murphy A Voorhees woman has written a book that she hopes will help parents of biracial children deal with unique challenges.   “Color Blind” is life coach Tiffany Rae Reid’s attempt to provide a guide for parents, caregivers, and family members raising biracial…