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  • More Than “Black-ish”: Examining Representations of Biracial People

    More Than “Black-ish”: Examining Representations of Biracial People For Harriet 2014-11-08 Aphrodite Kocieda Being biracial can be an uncomfortable subject to talk about, especially because it highlights a sensitive history of colorism, racism, and favoritism within the Black community. The unapologetic presence of biracial people in contemporary media culture is beginning to spark questions about…

  • Barack Obama and the Myth of a Post-Racial America

    Barack Obama and the Myth of a Post-Racial America Routledge 2013-10-04 240 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-81394-5 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-81393-8 eBook ISBN: 978-0-203-06779-6 Edited by: Mark Ledwidge, Senior Lecturer of History and American Studies Canterbury Christ Church University Kevern Verney, Professor of American History Edge Hill University Inderjeet Parmar, Professor of Government University of Manchester The…

  • 241F Performances of Passing, Performances of Resistance

    241F Performances of Passing, Performances of Resistance Hamilton College, Clinton, New York Spring 2014 Yumi Pak, Ph.D., Visiting Assistant Professor of Africana Studies An examination of the historical practice of passing in the United States. While the practice has most commonly referred to the history of racial passing for light-skinned African Americans in the early…

  • Episode Six: A More Perfect Union

    Episode Six: A More Perfect Union The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross (with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.) Public Broadcasting Service Tuesdays, 2013-10-22 through 2013-11-26, 20:00-21:00 ET From Black Power to Black President By 1968, the Civil Rights movement had achieved stunning victories, in the courts and in the Congress. But would African Americans finally…

  • Regina Anderson Andrews, Harlem Renaissance Librarian

    The life of a groundbreaking librarian and Harlem Renaissance figure

  • Jean Toomer: Race, Repression, and Revolution

    Jean Toomer: Race, Repression, and Revolution University of Illinois Press July 2014 336 pages 6.125 x 9.25 in. 10 black & white photographs, 1 chart Cloth ISBN: 978-0-252-03844-0 Barbara Foley, Professor of English Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark Political and personal repression and its effect on the work of a Harlem Renaissance…

  • The Colonel’s Dream

    The Colonel’s Dream West Virginia University Press October 2014 (originally published in 1905) 352 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-935978-91-6 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-940425-23-8 ePub ISBN: 978-1-935978-93-0 PDF ISBN: 978-1-935978-92-3 Charles W. Chesnutt Edited by: R. J. Ellis, Professor of American Studies University of Birmingham, United Kingdom Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932) was an African American writer, essayist, Civil…

  • Notes from a Colored Girl: The Civil War Pocket Diaries of Emilie Frances Davis

    A rare glimpse into the thoughts and experiences of a free black American woman in the nineteenth century

  • The Post-Racial Mystique: Media and Race in the Twenty-First Century

    The Post-Racial Mystique: Media and Race in the Twenty-First Century New York University Press April 2014 256 pages 9 halftones and 7 tables Cloth ISBN: 9780814762899 Paper ISBN: 9780814770603 Catherine R. Squires, Associate Professor of Communication Studies University of Minnesota Despite claims from pundits and politicians that we now live in a post-racial America, people…

  • Historically Black: Imagining Community in a Black Historic District

    Historically Black: Imagining Community in a Black Historic District New York University Press July 2014 208 pages 10 halftones Cloth ISBN: 9780814762882 Paper ISBN: 9780814763483 Mieka Brand Polanco, Assistant Professor of Anthropology James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia In Historically Black, Mieka Brand Polanco examines the concept of community in the United States: how communities are…