Category: United States

  • Review: Matthew McConaughey Rebels Against Rebels in ‘Free State of Jones’ The New York Times 2016-06-23 A. O. Scott, Film Critic Matthew McConaughey, left, and Jacob Lofland in “Free State of Jones.” Credit Murray Close/STX Entertainment “Free State of Jones” begins on the battlefield, with a flurry of the kind of immersive combat action that…

  • Legend of the Free State of Jones University Press of Mississippi 2009-10-07 143 pages 3 maps, 7 b&w illustrations 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches Paper ISBN: 978-1-60473-571-0 Ebook ISBN: 978-1-60473-572-7 Rudy H. Leverett The original, full accounting of a rebellion in the heart of Dixie A maverick, unionist district in the heart of the…

  • Blacks & Jews Entangled The New York Review of Books 2016-07-14 Darryl Pinckney Oreo by Fran Ross, with a foreword by Danzy Senna and an afterword by Harryette Mullen, New Directions, 230 pp., $14.95 (paper) Google wasn’t around when Oreo was first published in 1974. You are hit with Greek mythology and Yiddish right away…

  • A brilliant Jamaican-American writer takes on the themes of colonialism, race, myth, and political awakening through the experiences of a light-skinned woman named Clare Savage. The story is one of discovery as Clare moves through a variety of settings – Jamaica, England, America – and encounters people who affect her search for place and self.

  • Oral history interview with Benny Andrews, 1968 June 30 Archives of American Art Smithsonian Institution Andrews, Benny, b. 1930 d. 2006 Painter Active in New York, N.Y. Size: Transcript: 29 pages Format: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformated in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hrs., 12 min. Collection Summary:…

  • The Optics of Interracial Sexuality in Adrian Tomine’s Shortcomings and Sherman Alexie’s The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven College Literature Volume 41, Number 1, Winter 2014 pages 119-148 DOI: 10.1353/lit.2014.0004 Jolie A. Sheffer, Associate Professor, English and American Culture Studies Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio This essay focuses on the racial…

  • Dwayne Johnson – “Race Shifter” in a “Post-Racial” World? Shadow and Act: On Film, Television and Web Content of Africa and Its Diaspora 2016-06-13 Sergio Mims Dwayne Johnson With “Central Intelligence” hitting theaters this weekend, starring Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart, a conversation worth having… I’m sure we’ve all privy to all the chatter about…

  • Go Off!: Amandla Stenberg on Intersectionality and the Impact of White Supremacy Colorlines 2016-06-02 Kenrya Rankin, News Editor “I cannot separate my gender from my race from my sexual orientation. If in that moment I’m speaking out about gender, then I’m also in some way speaking out about race and about feminism.” In the latest…

  • Merle Dandridge on “Blasian” Identity and Oprah Winfrey Network’s new summer original series “Greenleaf” CAAM: Center of Asian American Media 2016-06-20 Mitzi Uehara Carter Merle Dandridge started her career on Broadway with leading roles in Spamalot, Aida, Rent, Tarzan, and Jesus Christ Superstar. Not only does she have singing chops, she shines on screen. Dandridge…

  • On The Free State Of Jones The Huffington Post 2016-06-20 Steven Hahn, Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of History University of Pennsylvania Three quarters of a century ago, “Gone with the Wind,” a film that mythologized an Old South of wealthy planters and obedient slaves, premiered in Atlanta amidst great fanfare and public…