Category: United States

  • The One They’ve Been Waiting for: White Fear and the Rise of Donald Trump Politics of Color: commentary & reflections on race, ethnicity, and politics 2016-11-27 Linda Alvarez, Assistant Professor California State University, Northridge Ivy A. Melgar Cargile, Assistant Professor California State University, Bakersfield Natasha Altema McNeely, Assistant Professor University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley…

  • Where Has All the Loving Gone? A Review of the New Film, ‘Loving’ African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) 2016-11-27 Peter Cole, Professor of History Western Illinois University A new film about the Southern working class couple whose love and dedication broke the back of anti-miscegenation laws across the nation arrives just in time. Released…

  • Beacon Goes to the Movies: “Loving” and the History of White Supremacy Beacon Broadside: A Project of Beacon Press 2016-12-15 Ayla Zuraw-Friedland, Editorial Assistant When publicity assistant Perpetua Charles and senior editor Joanna Green first began planning a staff trip to see the film Loving in celebration of Beacon’s forthcoming book on the same topic…

  • A Comic’s Secret Southern Story Below The Line Garden & Gun 2016-12-13 CJ Lotz A panel from “Krazy Kat.” Courtesy Krazy Before “The Far Side,” “Calvin and Hobbes,” or even Mickey Mouse, one cartoon stole the show. From 1913 to 1944, a panel called “Krazy Kat” ran in newspapers across the country and counted “Peanuts” creator…

  • Obama Leaves Office on High Note, But Public Has Mixed Views of Accomplishments Pew Research Center 2016-12-14 72% have favorable opinion of Michelle Obama With just a few weeks left in Barack Obama’s presidency, Americans’ early judgments of his place in history are more positive than negative. Obama is poised to leave office on a…

  • Feeling Cosmopolitan: Strategic Empathy in Charles W. Chesnutt’s Paul Marchand, F.M.C. MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States) Published online: 2016-12-10 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlw046 Alexa Weik von Mossner, Assistant Professor University of Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria “By modern research the unity of the human race has been proved,” asserts Charles W. Chesnutt in “The Future American” (122).…

  • The Prism of Race: W. E. B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, and the Colored World of Cedric Dover [Silkey Review] Journal of American History Volume 103, Issue 3, December 2016 pages 822-823 DOI: 10.1093/jahist/jaw452 Sarah L. Silkey, Associate Professor of History Lycoming College, Williamsport, Pennsylvania The Prism of Race: W. E. B. Du…

  • Good riddance to RU’s Powell Hall The Roanoke Times Roanoke, Virginia 2010-09-21 Christina Nuckols, Editorial Page Editor One can, if optimistically predisposed to believe in the inherent honesty and good-natured character of people, accept the story of why Radford University’s arts and music building still bore the name of John Powell until last week. One…

  • That the Blood Stay Pure: African Americans, Native Americans, and the Predicament of Race and Identity in Virginia [Smithers Review] Journal of American History Volume 103, Issue 3, December 2016 pages 742-743 DOI: 10.1093/jahist/jaw364 That the Blood Stay Pure: African Americans, Native Americans, and the Predicament of Race and Identity in Virginia By Arica L.…

  • Look: Co-Parenting Mixed-Race Kids Requires More Than Racial Tolerance Black Entertainment Television (BET) 2016-12-15 Ashley Simpo What happens when fetishizing Black bodies results in having to raise one? An interview with Nick Harris. It’s far from unique to see an interracial couple these days. The millennial generation is the most racially mixed to date and the…