Category: United States

  • The “Dear White People” syndrome: Why movies are obsessed with light-skinned black characters Salon 2014-10-23 Morgan Jerkins This isn’t the first film to relegate dark-skinned actors to the sidelines — but it may be the most frustrating For Princeton University’s recent Black Alumni Conference, an advance screening of “Dear White People” took place at the…

  • A Letter and the Legacy of “Not White” in the USA Nursing Clio: Because the Personal is Historical 2014-11-04 Adam Turner, Co-founder and Technical Editor With the events of the past months, and as Austin McCoy discussed here on Nursing Clio last week, it should be clear that white privilege is still alive and well…

  • Cincy in 2060: 1 in 7 of us will be biracial The Cincinnati Enquirer 2014-10-21 Mark Curnutte, Social Justice/Minority Affairs Reporter Photos and video by: Cara Owsley, Staff Photojournalist A new index suggests many of our communities will look less like they do today and more like Austin or Washington, D.C. EAST PRICE HILL – …

  • Seahawks’ Russell Wilson Controversy Shows Dangers of Racial Authenticity Tests The American Prospect 2014-11-01 Kevin Cokley, Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology; Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies University of Texas, Austin The ‘are you black enough?’ question is perilously close to the racist one-drop rule of yore—whether called by blacks or whites. Whether…

  • Bet You Didn’t Know: Secrets Behind The Making Of “Imitation Of Life” Madame Noire 2014-07-21 Veronica Wells, Associate Editor Everybody knows Imitation of Life. It’s the movie plenty of Black families reference when they speak about the original tearjerkers. When you think about it, it’s amazing that a movie that handled subjects such as race…

  • Blacks, Obama and the Election The New York Times 2014-11-02 Charles M. Blow, Visual Op-Ed columnist President Obama’s name won’t be on any ballots Tuesday, but he will most certainly be on them in spirit — a fact that many Republicans are trumpeting and some Democrats are hoping to downplay. The president is not particularly…

  • Allyson Hobbs – “A Chosen Exile” The Tavis Smiley Show 2014-10-31 Between the 18th and mid-20th centuries, countless fair-skinned African Americans abandoned families, friends and communities to forge new lives as white people. In her new book, “A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life”, Stanford University historian Allyson Hobbs explores the…

  • Growing Up On Burritos and Black-Eyed Peas: An Autoethnography of Multiracial Identity Development Georgia State University 2014-05-16 210 pages Marie Castro Bruner A Dissertation Presented in Partial Fulfillment of Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Teaching and Learning in the Department of Middle-Secondary Education in the College of Education Georgia State University…

  • Do Mixed-Race (Black/White) People have an Ethical Obligation to Identify as Black? The Center for the Study of Biracial Children 2014-08-15 Francis Wardle, PhD. So says Thomas Chatterton Williams, in a March, 2012 article published in the New York Times. This article joins an increasing number of vocal voices published in progressive publications and in…

  • Shows: One Drop of Love Mesa Arts Center Nesbitt/Elliott Playhouse One East Main Street Mesa, Arizona 85201 Box Office: (480) 644.6500 Performing Live Series Saturday, 2014-11-01, 15:00 & 19:30 MT (Local Time) Produced by Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and the show’s writer/performer Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, One Drop of Love is a multimedia one woman show. It…