Category: United States

  • “There is nothing ‘black’ about rioting”: Actor Jesse Williams unloads on Baltimore critics in passionate Twitter essay Salon 2015-04-28 Joanna Rothkopf, Assistant Editor (Credit: DFree via Shutterstock) The “Grey’s Anatomy” actor wrote about the prevelance of rioting throughout history On Monday evening, as Baltimore was rocked by violent and nonviolent protests alike, actor Jesse Williams,…

  • Brian Bantum on Redeeming Mulatto Homebrewed Christianity 2014-08-17 Bo Sanders Brian Bantum teaches theology at Seattle Pacific University out in the mighty Northwest. This spring when he and Callid were both at the Christian Leadership Forum of FTE they sat down to talk about Brian’s book Redeeming Mulatto: A Theology of Race and Christian Hybridity.…

  • President Obama Condemns Both the Baltimore Riots and the Nation’s ‘Slow-Rolling Crisis’ The New York Times 2015-04-28 Julie Hirschfeld Davis, White House Correspondent Matt Apuzzo WASHINGTON — President Obama responded with passion and frustration on Tuesday to the violence that has rocked Baltimore and other cities after the deaths of young black men in confrontations…

  • “A Chosen Exile” by History Professor Allyson Hobbs, has won two prizes from the Organization of American Historians Stanford University Department of History Palo Alto, California 2015-04-20 “A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life” by History Professor Allyson Hobbs has won two prizes from the Organization of American Historians: the Frederick Jackson…

  • Will Police Killings of Blacks be the Defining Crisis of the Obama Presidency? NewBlackMan (in Exile) 2015-04-24 Mark Anthony Neal, Host and Professor of African & African American Studies Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Duke University University Sociologist Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, author of the classic Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality…

  • Ticking the box: Finding a place for mixed race The Cambridge Student University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom 2015-04-25 Chase Caldwell Smith In my life, I have been told many things – that I “look like a bit of a foreigner” or that “I couldn’t tell you were part-Asian before – I can definitely see…

  • Genes Don’t Cause Racial-Health Disparities, Society Does The Atlantic 2015-04-13 Jason Silverstein, Teaching Fellow in Anthropology Harvard University Researchers are looking in the wrong place: White people live longer not because of their DNA but because of inequality. On April 24, 2003, shortly after the completion of the human genome project, its director Francis Collins…

  • On Slave Ownership, Privilege and One Drop One Drop of Love: A Daughter’s Search for Her Father’s Racial Approval 2015-04-21 Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, Writer, Performer and co-Producer For just a little over two years I have traveled across the United States performing the one-woman show I wrote and produce, One Drop of Love. One Drop…

  • Don’t portray this state I love as a hotbed of racial discontent The Bangor Daily News Bangor, Maine 2015-04-20 Trish Callahan, Special to the BDN When I played high school basketball, we travelled up to The County to play a couple times. Because of the distance we would stay with host families, and we attended…

  • Fast Talking PI: A Reading by Selina Tusitala Marsh Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU 8 Washington Mews New York, New York 10003 Monday, 2015-04-27, 16:00-18:00 EDT (Local Time) Auckland-based poet and scholar Selina Tusitala Marsh reads from her award-winning collection, Fast Talking PI. NYU Performance Studies Graduate student and Indigeneous artist, facilitator, and organizer si dåko’ta…