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  • President, Not Preacher, but Speaking More on Race

    President, Not Preacher, but Speaking More on Race The New York Times 2013-08-27 Peter Baker WASHINGTON — Sitting in the Roosevelt Room with prominent African-American religious leaders, President Obama on Monday mused about how far the nation had come in the 50 years since the March on Washington led by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther…

  • Anti-Essentialism and Intersectionality: Tools to Dismantle the Master’s House

    I want to begin my talk with a quote from the late poet Audre Lorde: “The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” was asked to speak today about anti-essentialism and intersectionality. I am glad to do so, for I believe both concepts are indispensable tools for dismantling the master’s house.

  • We Should all Be Terrified

    We Should all Be Terrified brianbantum: theology, culture, teaching and life in-between 2013-07-14 Brian Bantum, Assistant Professor of Theology Seattle Pacific University Today, do not speak to me of peace. Do not speak to me of reconciliation or “turn the other cheek.” Today we must confess. We must confess to what our nation was and…

  • Race on the Menu: Cheerios, Paula Deen, with Some Supreme Court for Dessert

    Race on the Menu: Cheerios, Paula Deen, with Some Supreme Court for Dessert brianbantum: theology, culture, teaching and life in-between 2012-06-26 Brian Bantum, Assistant Professor of Theology Seattle Pacific University It’s been a bad month. For some reason incidents and issues of race seems to appear like death, in groups of three. They clump together,…

  • A Blunt Chief Justice Unafraid to Upset Brazil’s Status

    A Blunt Chief Justice Unafraid to Upset Brazil’s Status The New York Times 2013-08-23 Simon Romero, Brazil Bureau Chief BRASÍLIA — Brazil’s highest court has long viewed itself as a bastion of manners and formality. Justices call one another “Your Excellency,” dress in billowing robes and wrap each utterance in grandiloquence, as if little had…

  • Who is an Indian?: Race, Place, and the Politics of Indigeneity in the Americas

    Who is an Indian?: Race, Place, and the Politics of Indigeneity in the Americas University of Toronto Press August 2013 272 pages Paper ISBN: 9780802095527 Cloth ISBN: 9780802098184 Edited by: Maximilian C. Forte, Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Who is an Indian? This is possibly the oldest question facing…

  • Plessy v. Ferguson: Race and Inequality in Jim Crow America

    Plessy v. Ferguson: Race and Inequality in Jim Crow America University Press of Kansas April 2012 224 pages 5-1⁄2 x 8-1⁄2 Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-1846-0 Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-1847-7 Williamjames Hull Hoffer, Associate Professor of History Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey Six decades before Rosa Parks boarded her fateful bus, another traveler in the Deep…

  • What Do I Tell My Blond Son About Being Black?

    What Do I Tell My Blond Son About Being Black? Gawker 2013-08-17 Anita DeRouen, Assistant Professor of English and Director of Writing and Teaching Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi “I think we should teach him to use his privilege to his advantage.” It’s Sunday morning, July 14, 2013. My husband and I are talking, have been…

  • Frizzly Studies: Negotiating the Invisible Lines of Race

    Frizzly Studies: Negotiating the Invisible Lines of Race Common Knowledge Volume 19, Number 3 (Fall 2013) pages 518-529 DOI: 10.1215/0961754X-2281810 Daniel J. Sharfstein, Professor of Law Vanderbilt University Beginning with the assumption that race is a conceptual blur, this contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Fuzzy Studies” argues that race conflates what is plain to…

  • Our Zip Code May Be More Important Than Our Genetic Code: Social Determinants of Health, Law and Policy

    Our Zip Code May Be More Important Than Our Genetic Code: Social Determinants of Health, Law and Policy Social Determinants of Health Rhode Island Medical Journal Volume 96, Number 7 (July 2013) Dannie Ritchie, MD, MPH, Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine Lead, Transcultural Community Health Initiative Brown University Center for Primary Care and Prevention…