Category: United States

  • From Raised Eyebrows To Raised Curtains: Rachel Atkins Tackles Racial Identity KUOW.org 94.9 FM: Seattle News & Information Seattle, Washington 2014-02-27 Marcie Sillman, Arts and Culture Reporter Actresses Kia Pierce and Marquicia Dominguez in Rachel Atkins’ play, “Black Like Us.” Credit Courtesy of Annex Theatre/Shane Regan When Rachel Atkins was 7, she and her sisters…

  • Reclaiming heritage in modern America Somona State Star Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California 2016-11-08 Jahred Nunes, Staff Writer Virginia natives Mildred Loving, a black woman, and Richard Loving, a white man, were sentenced to a year in state prison after being married in the spring of 1958. The couple was arrested in their bedroom,…

  • What must it feel like to be President Obama today? Salon 2016-11-10 Sophia Tesfaye Barack Obama and Donald Trump meet in the Oval Office, Nov. 10, 2016. (Credit: AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) President Obama and Donald Trump meet for their first face-to-face meeting in the White House Thursday While at least a quarter of the country…

  • Multiracial college students’ experiences with multiracial microaggressions Race Ethnicity and Education Published online 2016-11-07 pages 1-17 DOI: 10.1080/13613324.2016.1248836 Jessica C. Harris, Multi-Term Lecturer Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies University of Kansas While research on monoracial college students’ experiences with racial microaggressions increases, minimal, if any, research focuses on multiracial college students’ experiences with…

  • Locating black mixed-raced males in the black supplementary school movement Race Ethnicity and Education Published online 2016-11-08 pages 1-14 DOI: 10.1080/13613324.2016.1248838 Remi Joseph-Salisbury School of Ethnicity and Racism Studies, School of Sociology and Social Policy University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom Kehinde Andrews, Associate Professor of Sociology Birmingham City University, Birmingham, United Kingdom This article…

  • The New Biopolitics of Race, Health, and Justice Center For Health and Wellbeing Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs 001 Robertson Hall Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey Friday, 2016-11-11, 12:00-13:30 EST (Local Time) Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander…

  • Artist, surfer Kip Fulbeck to exhibit work at MSU Times Record News Wichita Falls, Texas 2016-11-03 Richard Carter, Special to the Times Record News Kip Fulbeck Kip Fulbeck grew up in Hawaii as the child of a Chinese mother and a white American father. In elementary school, children would come up to him and ask, “Who…

  • When will Rachel Dolezal stop trying to get in formation? gal-dem 2016-06-23 Paula Akpan and Ella Wilks-Harper When the story of Rachel Dolezal first broke – the NAACP president who has been misrepresenting herself as black – I snorted derisively. When she was interviewed by VICE’s Broadly and mused over how “it’s so hard to explain this to people: I don’t feel white,” I rolled my…

  • In An Election Defined By Race, How Do We Define Race? FiveThirtyEight 2016-11-06 Farai Chideya, Senior Writer When I was younger, I had an idea for a satire in which a group of rogue genealogists would get blood samples from racially incendiary white politicians. They’d run DNA tests on them to see if they were…

  • ‘Barry’ Is An Introspection On President Obama’s Collegiate Years Black Girl Nerds 2016-11-06 Jamie Broadnax An Uneventful Origin Story Of Our First Black President The most profound experiences of our lives happen during those tumultuous years before we have achieved our own level of success.  The moment before we meet the love of our life, start…