Category: United States

  • Lib at Large: Documentary tells odd story of Korla Pandit, ‘godfather of exotica’ Marin Independent Journal San Rafael, California 2015-10-29 Paul Liberatore Marin has been home to some fascinating characters over the decades, but probably no one has been as mysterious and exotic as Korla Pandit, an organ-playing, turban-wearing sex symbol of 1950s daytime TV.…

  • The Color of Love Lecture & Book Signing University of South Florida Tampa Library Grace Allen Room, 4th Floor 4202 E. Fowler Ave. LIB122 Tampa, Florida Monday, 2015-11-16, 11:00-13:00 EST (Local Time) Dr. Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman, Assistant Professor in Sociology and ISLAC Examining race and gender, Hordge-Freeman illustrates [in her new book, The Color of Love:…

  • The Sweet (and Sour) Enchantment of Racism in Post-Racial America University of South Florida Patel Center for Global Solutions Auditorium 4202 E Fowler Ave, CGS101 Tampa, Florida 33620 Friday, 2015-11-13, 12:30-13:30 EST (Local Time) Dr. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva will be on campus on November 13, 2015, for the purpose of discussing his recent works relating to…

  • More Than Just Party Music: New Book ‘Remixing Reggaetón’ Mines the Complicated Racial Politics of the Genre Remezcla 2015-10-21 Walter Thompson-Hernández Los Angeles, California For centuries, the complexities of racism in Latin America have been overshadowed by the false perception that high rates of racial mixture have created a racially democratic Latin American society. In…

  • Discovering my blackness Blavity 2015-10-27 Juan Robles Brooklyn, New York “Oh, you’re Latino. I thought you were black.” For most of my life, I’ve had people pose some variant of that statement to me. In our society, the prevalent idea is that a person can either be Latino or black but not both. As a…

  • Activist, journalist and scholar Rosa Clemente sat down with Jared Ball for this extended 3-part interview about her life, work and politics.

  • Halloween Costume Emails Stokes Debate At Yale All Things Considered National Public Radio 2015-11-09 Audie Cornish, Host Yale University is in turmoil after a series of emails about culturally insensitive Halloween costumes. Some students there are protesting what they say is a hostile environment for students of color. Sebi Median-Tayac [Aaron Z. Lewis], one of…

  • What’s Really Going On at Yale Medium 2015-11-08 Aaron Z. Lewis, Senior Yale University Dean Jonathan Holloway; Photo credit: Yale Daily News By now, you’ve probably seen the video of a Yale student yelling at a professor, the Facebook post about a “white girls only” party, or the email about offensive Halloween costumes. Unfortunately, the…

  • Why I teach about Whiteness. Race and Reflection 2015-11-08 Lee Bebout, Associate Professor of English Arizona State University I will be teaching “the whiteness class” in a few weeks, and it seems like a good time to reflect on where I’ve been and where we’re going. Last spring was simultaneously a headache and a joy.…

  • W. E. B. Du Bois and The Souls of Black Folk University of North Carolina Press August 2015 288 pages 6.125 x 9.25, notes, index Paper ISBN: 978-1-4696-2643-7 Stephanie J. Shaw, Professor of History Ohio State University In this book, Stephanie J. Shaw brings a new understanding to one of the great documents of American…