Category: United States

  • Still ‘Krazy’ after all these years: A life of George Herriman, pioneering comic writer and N.O. exile The New Orleans Advocate 2016-12-05 Susan Larson, Host, The Reading Life WWNO-FM, New Orleans George Herriman, from Michael Tisserand’s Krazy Kat bio of George Herriman For Michael Tisserand, as for most of us, the love of comics came…

  • Call For Papers: Spaniards, Natives, Africans, and Gypsies: Transatlantic Malagueñas and Zapateados in Music, Song, and Dance 2016-10-16 K. Meira Goldberg, Visiting Research Scholar Foundation for Iberian Music The Graduate Center The City University of New York 365 Fifth Avenue New York, New York 10016 Prof. Walter Clark, Director The Center for Iberian and Latin…

  • Barack Obama’s presidency lurched between idealism and acrimony but some of his accomplishments will endure

  • Leona Amosah, the Founder of SWIRL, Talks Diversity and Identity Study Breaks 2016-12-28 Molly Flynn University of North Carolina, Charlotte Celebrating Students with Interracial Legacies (SWIRL) Amosah, a high-achieving senior at UNC Chapel Hill, created the organization to provide a community for students with multiracial and mixed-race identities. While many college students occupy their time…

  • Descendants Of Native American Slaves In New Mexico Emerge From Obscurity All Things Considered National Public Radio 2016-12-29 John Burnett, Southwest Correspondent, National Desk Santo Tomas Catholic church in Abiquiu, N.M., is the site of an annual saint’s day celebration in late November that includes cultural elements of the genizaros, the descendants of Native American…

  • The Rumpus Interview with Emily Raboteau The Rumpus 2016-12-28 Gina Prescott The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race is a collection of essays and poetry that takes its name from James Baldwin’s classic, The Fire Next Time. Jesmyn Ward, the collection’s editor and author of the National Book Award-winning novel, Salvage the Bones,…

  • The Blackwashing of President Obama’s Legacy The Root 2016-12-27 Daniel Johnson There is a deeply embedded danger in the collective black American consciousness to defend the cultural and political blackness of President Barack Obama. On the surface, his very presence  in the Oval Office is an act of political revolution, an unprecedented response to this…

  • Special Relationships: mixed-race couples in post-war Britain and the United States Women’s History Review Volume 26, 2017 – Issue 1: Revisioning the History of Girls and Women in Britain in the Long 1950s pages 110-129 DOI: 10.1080/09612025.2015.1123027 Clive Webb, Professor of Modern American History University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom This article uses a transatlantic…

  • When the Serendipitously Named Lovings Fell in Love, Their World Fell Apart Smithsonian.com 2016-12-23 Christopher Wilson, Director of the African American History Program and Experience and Program Design Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C. The new film captures the quiet essence of the couples’ powerful story, says Smithsonian scholar Christopher Wilson “My theory…

  • My President Is Biracial Multiracial Media: Voice of the Multiracial Community 2016-12-27 TaRessa Stovall Atlanta, Georgia Remember that 2008 post-election rap anthem? “My President is Black; in fact, he’s half White So even in a racist mind he’s half right —Jay-Z and Young Jeezy’s “My President” That’s what runs through my mind as I read…