Category: United States

  • Rivas awarded NEH Summer Stipends award to work on book News From Marshall University Huntington, West Virginia 2015-03-25 Dave Wellman, Director of Communications Telephone: (304) 696-7153 HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Dr. Zelideth Maria Rivas, an assistant professor of Japanese in Marshall University’s Department of Modern Languages, has been awarded a “very competitive” National Endowment for the…

  • Homestory Deutschland: Black Biographies in Historical and Present Times Canisius College, Buffalo, New York 2015-03-04 Buffalo, NY – Canisius College will exhibit “Homestory Deutschland: Black Biographies in Historical and Present Times” from Tuesday, March 24 – Sunday, April 12. The exhibit will be on display in Alumni Hall, located between the Andrew L. Bouwhuis Library…

  • Blood Work: Imagining Race in American Literature, 1890-1940 Louisiana State University Press January 2015 240 pages 5.50 x 8.50 inches Hardcover ISBN: 9780807157848 Shawn Salvant, Assistant Professor of English and African American University of Connecticut The invocation of blood—as both an image and a concept—has long been critical in the formation of American racism. In…

  • The Rock Obama Cold Open – SNL Saturday Night Live National Broadcasting Company (NBC) 2015-03-28 After the actions of Rep. John Boehner (Taran Killam), Sen. Ted Cruz (Bobby Moynihan) and Sen. Tom Cotton (Kyle Mooney) make him lose his cool, President Obama (Jay Pharoah) turns into The Rock Obama (Dwayne Johnson).

  • Lives of Afro-German men and women are focus of Canisius College exhibit The Buffalo News Buffalo, New York 2015-03-12 An exhibit that provides a look at the lives of Afro-German men and women living in Germany during the past three centuries will open March 24 in Alumni Hall, between the Andrew L. Bouwhuis Library and…

  • Amherst Together asking for poems about identity, presenting 1-woman performance on notion of race MassLive 2015-03-24 Diane Lederman, Reporter The Springfield Republican Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni is bringing her one-woman show “One Drop of Love” to Amherst Middle School April 15 as part of the Amherst Together initiative. (Submitted) AMHERST, [Massachusetts] – Since July, Carol Ross has…

  • “I was living in a racial closet”: Black filmmaker Lacey Schwartz on growing up white Salon Sunday, 2015-03-22 Marissa Charles A photo of Lacey Schwartz and her mother, in “Little White Lie” (Credit: PBS) Schwartz talks to Salon about race, privilege, family secrets and her new PBS documentary “Little White Lie” For the first 18…

  • When Change Doesn’t Matter: Racial Identity (In)consistency and Adolescent Well-being Sociology of Race & Ethnicity Volume 1, Number 2 (April 2015) pages 270-286 DOI: 10.1177/2332649214552730 Rory Kramer, Assistant Professor Department of Sociology and Criminology Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania Ruth Burke Department of Sociology University of Pennsylvania Camille Z. Charles, Professor of Sociology University of Pennsylvania…

  • I’m a White Mom With Biracial Children, and What I Do With Their Hair Is No One’s Business The Root 2015-03-24 Maria Guido, Associate Editor Mommyish Being the mother of two biracial children, I’m noticing that both races feel a sense of community when offering boundary-invading, unsolicited hair-care advice. Maybe I’m just not the type…

  • Independent Lens | Little White Lie | I Identify: What Forces Determine Your Identity? Independent Lens Public Broadcasting Service 2015-03-23 In conjunction with Lacey Schwartz’s “Little White Lie,” in which the filmmaker discovers an identity-altering family secret, Independent Lens presents “I Identify” — a digital short featuring nine San Francisco Bay Area residents exploring the…