Category: Interviews

  • Mixed Ethnicity, Hidden Identity The New York Times 2013-05-24 Kathryn Shattuck With his long-lashed chocolate eyes and inviting lips, used to seductive effect in “Rescue Me,” “Grey’s Anatomy” and “The Devil Wears Prada,” Daniel Sunjata has the kind of face not easily forgotten, or so you’d think “If I’m exposed to crowds repeatedly, I could…

  • Aisha Sabatini Sloan Trop 2013-05-14 Zoe Ruiz, Saturday Editor for The Rumpus and staff member of FOUND In The Fluency of Light, Aisha Sabatini Sloan’s essays read like meditations on themes of identity, race, and family. Her writing is sharp—one might say spare—and her descriptions, clear and beautiful. Her essays are a guide that help…

  • The Joys and Challenges of Becoming a Transracial Family Through Adoption Your Adoption Coach with Kelly Ellison 2013-04-20 Kelly Ellison, Host If you are considering adopting a child of a different culture or race than your family, or you are already a transracial family formed through adoption, don’t miss this show. Our host this week…

  • A Conversation with Lawrence Hill Callaloo Volume 36, Number 1, Winter 2013 pages 5-26 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2013.0072 Winfried Siemerling, Professor of English University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada When Paul Gilroy in The Black Atlantic offered an alternative account of modernity that placed transnational, black transatlantic lives and cultures at the center, Canada was not on his…

  • The Place in Between: An Interview with Esi Edugyan Callaloo Volume 36, Number 1, Winter 2013 pages 46-51 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2013.0070 Maaza Mengiste Esi Edugyan’s 2011 Man Booker Prize finalist, Half-Blood Blues, opens with the lines, “Chip told us not to go out. Said, don’t you boys tempt the devil.” It is 1940 in Nazi-occupied Paris…

  • Dr. Ralina Joseph and Transcending Blackness: From the New Millennium Mulatta to the Exceptional Multiracial I Mix What I Like 2013-01-11 Jared A. Ball, Host and Associate Professor of Communication Studies Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland This is part one of our discussion with Dr. Ralina Joseph about her book, Transcending Blackness: From the New…

  • Soledad O’Brien: ‘OK, white person, this is a conversation you clearly are uncomfortable with’ The Washington Examiner 2013-05-13 Paul Bedard Soledad O’Brien, recently yanked from her morning show “Starting Point” on CNN, plans to continue her focus on racial issues and is charging that whites are afraid of dealing with the nation’s black-white division. O’Brien,…

  • Slaves In The Family with Edward Ball Research at the National Archives and Beyond BlogTalk Radio Thursday, 2013-05-16, 21:00-22:00 EDT, (Friday, 2013-05-17, 01:00-02:00Z) Bernice Bennett, Host Edward Ball, Lecturer in English Yale University If you knew that you were a descendant of a slave- owner, would you tell anyone? If you had an opportunity to…

  • ‘The River Between Us’: A story of survival and transformation The Kansas City Star 2013-04-12 Edward M. Eveld It’s the eve of the Civil War in Richard Peck’s novel “The River Between Us,” and the country is rearranging itself for the coming conflict. A prelude to the convulsion plays even in the tiny river-landing town…

  • The Reading Life: Authors Emily Clark, Bill Loehfelm And Dennis Formento The Reading Life WWNO 89.9FM University of New Orleans 2013-04-23 Susan Larson, Host Emily Clark, Clement Chambers Benenson Professor of American Colonial History; Associate Professor of History Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana Emily Clark This week on The Reading Life, Susan talks with Tulane…