Category: United States

  • Rutgers Takes a Yearlong Look at Race, Place and Space in the Americas Rutgers Today Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 2011-10-21 Carrie Stetler History professors Ann Fabian, left, and Mia Bay have been awarded a $175,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to explore how place has impacted the role of race…

  • Douglas Todd: Mixed unions applauded by some, but dismissed by others as brownwashing The Vancouver Sun Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 2015-07-24 Douglass Todd, Vancouver Sun columnist Ethnically mixed couples — involving whites, blacks, Japanese, Hispanics, Chinese, South Asians or others — were heralded not long ago as the wave of a tolerant, open, non-racist future.…

  • Thinking ‘Post-Racial’ Ideology Transnationally: The Contemporary Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Americas Critical Sociology Published online before print 2015-07-03 DOI: 10.1177/0896920515591175 Alexandre Emboaba Da Costa, Assistant Professor, Theoretical, Cultural and International Studies in Education University of Alberta, Canada This article introduces the special issue on post-racial ideologies and politics in the Americas. It…

  • Oreo: A Comeback Story On The Media WNYC FM New York, New York Friday, 2015-07-17 Mythili Rao, Host and Producer Guests: Mat Johnson, Harryette Mullen, Mark Anthony Neal and Danzy Senna In 1974, Fran Ross published her first and only novel, “Oreo.” The satirical tale of a biracial teenager’s Theseus-style quest to find her father…

  • Layers of Meaning in Mr. Obama’s Kenya Trip The New York Times 2015-07-23 The Editorial Board Nairobi, Kenya (Credit: Ben Curtis/Associated Press) There often comes a time in the lives of Americans when they feel drawn to explore their roots, a quest that might take them on a pilgrimage to the “old country,” whether County…

  • Review: ‘Oreo,’ a Sandwich-Cookie of a Feminist Comic Novel The New York Times 2015-07-14 Dwight Garner Fran Ross’s first and only novel, “Oreo,” was published in 1974, four years after Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye” and two years before Alex Haley’s “Roots.” It wasn’t reviewed in The New York Times; it was hardly reviewed anywhere.…

  • Preparing counselors for America’s multiracial population boom Counseling Today: A Publication of the American Counseling Association 2015-07-15 Bethany Bray, Staff Writer Preparing counselors for America’s multiracial population boom The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that the nation’s multiracial population will triple by 2060. That prognostication only heightens the long-standing need for counselors to better understand this…

  • Newton Knight– abolitionist guerrilla leader in Mississippi Workers World 2015-07-22 Paul Wilcox A hidden history of the Civil War Ever hear of the First Alabama Cavalry, or the name Newton Knight? Not likely. The capitalist media have always promoted stories of “former Confederate soldiers” who loyally served the Confederacy, loved Gen. Robert E. Lee, had…

  • Q&A “Blaxicans of L.A.”: capturing two cultures in one The Los Angeles Times 2015-07-21 Ebony Bailey When race in this country is often discussed in black and white, where do those who don’t quite fit the dime fall?. Walter Thompson-Hernandez, a researcher with the Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration at USC, is attempting…

  • First African-American woman novelist revisited Harvard University Gazette Cambridge, Massachusetts 2005-03-24 Ken Gewertz, Harvard News Office Harriet Wilson was a survivor. Now we have proof. Wilson wrote “Our Nig; or Sketches From the Life of A Free Black,” the earliest known novel by an African-American woman. It tells the story of Frado, a young biracial…