Category: United States

  • China Dolls by Lisa See Discover Nikkei 2015-01-15 Leslie Yamaguchi Fans of best-selling author Lisa See will not be surprised by her diverse background, the source of the unique perspective readers inevitably find in each of her novels. Born in Paris but raised and residing in Los Angeles for most of her life, she is…

  • Slavery before Race: Europeans, Africans, and Indians at Long Island’s Sylvester Manor Plantation, 1651-1884 New York University Press 238 pages April 2013 Hardback ISBN: 9780814785775 Paperback ISBN: 9781479802227 Katherine Howlett Hayes, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Minnesota The study of slavery in the Americas generally assumes a basic racial hierarchy: Africans or those of…

  • Implicit Attitude Generalization From Black to Black–White Biracial Group Members Social Psychological and Personality Published online before print: 2015-01-13 DOI: 10.1177/1948550614567686 Jacqueline M. Chen, Post-doctoral Scholar Department of Psychology University of California, Davis Kate A. Ratliff, Assistant Professor of Psychology University of Florida We investigated whether Black–White biracial individuals are perceived as Black in the…

  • Living Color: Fathers Talk to Their Bi-Racial Sons NBC News 2015-01-14 Photographs by André Chung Teaching lessons they never had to learn, fathers speak to their bi-racial sons about identity, perception, and dealing with law enforcement. Mark Johnson-Lewis, 48, and his son, Tyler Lewis, 22, of Columbia, MD (André Chung/NBC News) …Mark: You’re black in…

  • What If Everything You Know About Race Is Wrong? Texas Public Radio San Antonio, Texas 2015-01-15 Jack Morgan, Arts and Culture Reporter Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni A one-woman show is coming to the Tobin Center and it’s probably unlike anything you’ve ever seen. It’s called “One Drop of Love.” starring Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, produced by Ben…

  • One Drop of Love Tobin Center for the Performing Arts Carlos Alvarez Studio Theater 100 Auditorium Circle San Antonio, Texas 78205 2015-01-17, 14:00 CST and 20:00 CST (Local Time) BMW OF SAN ANTONIO SIGNATURE SERIES “Amazing performance, staging, autobiography and artistry, and an amazing meditation on race and examination of America.” – Ben Affleck, 2013…

  • Hawaii As ‘Racial Paradise’? Bid For Obama Library Invokes A Complex Past Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2015-01-15 Ellen Wu, Associate Professor of History Indiana University Sometime in March, President Obama is expected to announce his choice of the institution that will hold his presidential archive. Vying for the…

  • Plaçage and the Performance of Whiteness: The Trial of Eulalie Mandeville, Free Colored Woman, of Antebellum New Orleans American Nineteenth Century History Volume 15, Issue 2, 2014 pages 187-209 DOI: 10.1080/14664658.2014.959818 Carol Wilson, Arthur A. and Elizabeth R. Knapp Professor of American History Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland Depictions of plaçage, a type of concubinage found…

  • 53 Historians Weigh In on Barack Obama’s Legacy New York 2015-01-11 “It’s a fool’s errand you’re involved in,” warned Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon Wood when approached recently by this magazine to predict Barack Obama’s historical legacy. “We live in a fog, and historians decades from now will tell their society what was happening in 2014.…

  • The myth of race, debunked in 3 minutes Vox 2015-01-13 Jenée Desmond Harris You may know exactly what race you are, but how would you prove it if somebody disagreed with you? Jenée Desmond Harris explains. And for more on how race is a social construct, click here.