Category: United States

  • Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? Ecco (an imprint of HarperCollins) 2016-12-06 192 pages 5.313 in (w) x 8 in (h) x 0.432 in (d) Paperback ISBN: 9780062484154 E-book ISBN: 9780062484161 Kathleen Collins (1942-1988) Foreword by: Elizabeth Alexander Named one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of the Year, and named one of the most anticipated books of…

  • Lionel Richie’s Daughter Sofia Says People Say Racist Stuff Around Her Not Knowing She’s Black The Root 2016-12-06 Yesha Callahan, Senior Editor Sofia Richie during New York Fashion Week on Feb. 11, 2016 Gustavo Caballero/Getty Images The model spoke about the racism she’s subjected to because people don’t see her as a black woman. Lionel…

  • For Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews, Whiteness Was a Fragile Identity Long Before Trump Forward 2016-12-06 Sigal Samuel, Opinion Editor Nikki Casey I have lived for 26 years under the illusion that I am unconditionally white…. Recently I have started looking at my face and going, ‘Oh man, do I look too Jewish?’” Sydney Brownstone, the…

  • The life and times of Lucy Parsons, early American radical and labor organizer, told definitively here.

  • Afro-Latinos: a vision of Houston’s mixed-race future The Houtson Chronicle Houston, Texas 2016-11-19 Olivia P. Tallet, Reporter Afro-Latinos embody Texas’ mixed-race future It happens all the time. At the taco truck, Raul Orlando Edwards placed his fajita order: “Señorita, por favor, póngale la cebolla bien cocida” (“I’d like the onions well-done.”) “Man,” said the African-American…

  • Artist Explodes Racial Stereotypes In Shape-Shifting Photographs The Huffington Post 2016-10-20 Priscilla Frank, Arts & Culture Writer Shulamit Nazarian “My experience as a person of color is different than others’. I have something to say.” Artist Genevieve Gaignard grew up in the town of Orange, Massachusetts. Her mother was white, her father black ― one…

  • Would-Be Bridegroom Takes Oath He Is Negro The San Francisco Call Volume 104, Number 70 (1908-08-09) Page 31, Column 4 (Source: California Digital Newspaper Collection) Cannot Get License to Wed Mulatto Until He Proves His Race ST. LOUIS, Aug. 8.— “You can’t get a marriage license here,” said Leon G. Smith of East St. Louis…

  • A young playwright’s quest to ask difficult questions about race, class and gender The Los Angeles Times 2016-12-02 Margaret Gray Leah Nanako Winkler’s new play “Kentucky” is a comedy about a Japanese American woman raised in the South. Like her protagonist Hiro, Winkler is half-Japanese and grew up in Kentucky. Like Hiro, she left  for New York…

  • A Picture of Her ‘Kentucky’ Home The Rafu Shimpo: Los Angeles Japanese Daily News 2016-11-27 Mikey Hirano Culross Leah Nanako Winkler was born in Japan, raised in Lexington, Kentucky, and now lives in New York City. Leah Nanako Winkler arrived more than flustered, bounding into a dressing room at East West Players after having endured…

  • This Black-ish review is late. It’s incredibly late because this was a complex episode to approach. As soon as the cold open ended with Bow’s disdainful expression as she saw Junior’s white girlfriend, my phone started going off. My mom texted, “Wow, they’re really gonna do this?” From a distance, “Being Bow-racial” may seem like…