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  • Halle Berry and the Myth of the Black Man-Eating Bitch

    Halle Berry and the Myth of the Black Man-Eating Bitch For Harriet 2015-11-06 Kelly Davis Brookyln, New York I have a complicated relationship with Halle Berry. I have admired her work, mainly Losing Isaiah and Introducing Dorothy Dandridge. She inspired my haircut senior year of college, not long after she won her history-making Academy Award.…

  • The Color of Our Future: Race in the 21st Century

    In “The Color of Our Future,” young journalist Farai Chideya explores how members of the next generation deal with race in their own lives and how the decisions they make determine America’s ethnic future.

  • Slavery’s Hidden History: An interview with historian Eric Foner

    Slavery’s Hidden History: An interview with historian Eric Foner American Libraries 2015-10-27 George M. Eberhart, Editor Eric Foner—Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, author of Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad (W. W. Norton, 2015), Columbia University professor, and author of more than 20 history texts—spoke to American Libraries about his latest book and…

  • The Souls of Black Folk

    The Souls of Black Folk Yale University Press 2015-06-30 (Originally published in 1903) 240 pages 18 b/w illus. 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 Paper ISBN: 9780300195828 W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) Introduction and Chronology by: Jonathan Scott Holloway, Edmund S. Morgan Professor of African American Studies, History, and American Studies; Dean of Yale College…

  • Probing Change in Racial Self-identification: A Focus on Children of Immigrants

    Probing Change in Racial Self-identification: A Focus on Children of Immigrants Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Published online before print 2015-10-26 DOI: 10.1177/2332649215611685 Thomas J. Mowen, Assistant Professor Department of Criminal Justice University of Wyoming Richard Stansfield, Assistant Professor Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice Rutgers the State University of New Jersey, Camden Recent…

  • Valuing Blackness vs. Claiming “Mixedness”

    Valuing Blackness vs. Claiming “Mixedness” For Harriet 2014-10-30 Tamara Williams I remember being in 7th grade, and writing on the back of my folder all the things I was told by an older cousin I was “mixed” with. I had a desire to claim all I thought I was, but what was more interesting is…

  • “I’m A Biracial Person Who…” | A Snapchat Story

    “I’m A Biracial Person Who…” | A Snapchat Story Chescaleigh 2015-10-26 Franchesca Ramsey

  • Who Is Multiracial? Depends on How You Ask

    Who Is Multiracial? Depends on How You Ask Pew Research Center 2015-11-06 Eileen Patten, Research Analyst In 2014, as Pew Research Center prepared to conduct the first major study of the views of multiracial Americans—a group that, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, is poised to triple by 2060—we faced a fundamental and unavoidable methodological…

  • Race & Religions Series with Lacey Schwartz in conversation with Allyson Hobbs

    What defines our identity, our family of origin or the family that raises us? How do we come to terms with the sins and mistakes of our parents? Lacey discovers that answering those questions means understanding her parents’ own stories as well as her own. She pieces together her family history and the story of…

  • Interesting description of a group of people called Cajans around Mobile Alabama written before 1940

    Interesting description of a group of people called Cajans around Mobile Alabama written before 1940 Alabama Pioneers 2015-11-06 Donna R. Causey THE CAJANS OF SOUTH ALABAMA Occupying the pine and oak woods of Mobile County in southern Alabama are a group of people of mixed racial blood known in that section as Indian Cajans. Living…