Category: United States

  • Connecting the Dots in Suicide Prevention Vassar Alumnae/i Quarterly Poughkeepsie, New York Spring/Summer 2014 Eric Marcus ’80 Rebecca Hyde ’92 According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP), suicide is the 10th leading cause of death for Americans. Christine Yu Moutier ’90 wants to do something about that. Last fall, following two decades of…

  • A History of Loss The Chronicle Review The Chronicle of Higher Education 2015-02-09 Allyson Hobbs, Assistant Professor of History Stanford University Alexander L. Manly could have been the first victim of the bloody race riot that exploded in Wilmington, N.C., in early November 1898. Manly, publisher of the Daily Record, North Carolina’s only African-American newspaper,…

  • Association for Critical Race Art History: Building a Multiracial American Past CAA 103rd Annual Conference College Art Association New York, New York 2015-02-11 through 2015-02-14 Session Location/Time: New York Hilton Midtown 2nd Floor, Sutton Parlor Center 1335 Avenue of the Americas New York, New York 10019 2015-02-11, 12:30-14:00 EST (Local Time) Charles Paxson, Learning is…

  • Ideas of blackness, whiteness, and racial mixture in a Puerto Rican barrio

  • While the name Archibald Motley brings instant recognition only to specialized scholars, two of Motley’s paintings are so well known that they have become, for many, visual embodiments of the Harlem Renaissance. Motley’s “The Octoroon Girl” (1925) and “Blues” (1929) have served as cover art for several editions of Harlem Renaissance literature, anthologies, and literary…

  • My Biracial Life: A Memoir Philadelphia [Magazine] 2015-02-08 Originally published as “My Wild, Chaotic, Complex, Crazy, Ambiguous (Biracial) Hair” in the February 2015 issue of Philadelphia magazine. Malcolm Burnley What 25 years with wild, chaotic, complex, crazy, ambiguous hair has taught me. It’s 1:30 a.m. on a Saturday night at the barren 24-hour Melrose Diner…

  • Arturo O’Farrill: Afro-Latino Heritage Is ‘One Big Culture That We All Share’ The Huffington Post Latino Voices 2015-02-06 Roque Planas, Editor Arturo O’Farrill wants Africa to get the credit it deserves. The New York-based pianist, composer and educator traveled Friday to Los Angeles to attend the Grammys, where his Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra’s “The Offense…

  • When you say you ‘don’t see race’, you’re ignoring racism, not helping to solve it The Guardian 2015-01-26 Zach Stafford Race is such an ingrained social construct that even blind people can ‘see’ it. To pretend it doesn’t exist to you erases the experiences of black people People love to tell me that they often…

  • Racial Passing in the U.S. and Mexico in the Early Twentieth Century RSF Review: Research from the Russell Sage Foundation Russell Sage Foundation New York, New York 2015-01-22 This feature is part of an ongoing RSF blog series, Work in Progress, which highlights some of the ongoing research of our current class of Visiting Scholars.…

  • First Black Elected to Head Harvard’s Law Review The New York Times 1990-02-06 Fox Butterfield BOSTON, Feb. 5—  The Harvard Law Review, generally considered the most prestigious in the country, elected the first black president in its 104-year history today. The job is considered the highest student position at Harvard Law School. The new president…