Category: United States

  • Race and the Making of Family in the Atlantic World University of North Carolina, Wilmington Burney Center 601 S. College Road Wilmington, North Carolina Thursday, 2014-10-23, 19:30 EDT (Local Time) Daniel Livesay, Assistant Professor of History Drury University, Springfield, Missouri In the eighteenth-century world of slavery and the slave trade, racial prejudices were often stark…

  • Children (but not adults) judge similarity in own- and other-race faces by the color of their skin Journal of Experimental Child Psychology Volume 130, February 2015 pages 56–66 DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2014.09.009 Benjamin Balas, Assistant Professor of Psychology North Dakota State University Jessie Peissig, Associate Professor of Psychology California State University, Fullerton Margaret Moulson, Assistant Professor &…

  • Confederate officer’s wartime diary decoded The Associated Press 2014-10-13 Chris Carola SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) — A century and a half after Confederate officer James Malbone wrote his Civil War diary partly in code, a couple of Yankees have figured out why he took the precaution: He liked to gossip. Sprinkled amid entries on camp…

  • Who Here Is A Negro? Michigan Quarterly Review Volume 53, Issue 1 (Winter 2014) Martha S. Jones, Arthur F Thurnau Professor, Associate Professor of History and Afroamerican and African Studies University of Michigan Last fall I made a migration south. The promise of a year’s sabbatical and an escape from the demands of teaching and…

  • Albert Chong: “The Photomosaics: Works on Paper, Wood, and Stone”, on view through November 1, 2014 Counterpath 613 22nd Street Denver, Colorado 80205 (303) 953-2692 2014-10-03 through 2014-11-01 “Angela” (2011) by Albert Chong Opening Friday, October 3, 2014, at 7 p.m., and on view through November 1, 2014, Counterpath is excited to host an exhibit…

  • I raised my sons to be racially neutral Salon 2014-10-18 Terry Baker Mulligan Two mixed-race boys, one lighter skinned than the other. Did I make a mistake telling them they were the same? One Saturday night in St. Louis about decade ago my younger son, then a teen, was driving around town with two white…

  • Ebola has exposed America’s fear, and Barack Obama’s vulnerability The Guardian 2014-10-19 Gary Younge The virus is a metaphor for all that conservatives loathe, and sees the president’s policies under renewed attack In a column ostensibly explaining why moderates struggle in the Republican party, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen last year wrote: “People with conventional…

  • Passing For White South Florida Sun-Sentinel Fort Lauderdale, Florida 2003-11-01 David Crary The Associated Press America is more diverse than ever and racial pride is strong, yet a new movie and book are highlighting a phenomenon that seems like a relic of the segregationist past — black people passing as white. The film, The Human…

  • The Whiteness Project will make you wince. Because white people can be rather awful The Guardian 2014-10-15 Steven W. Thrasher, Weekly Columnist You’ve never seen privilege quite like this: ‘You can’t even talk about fried chicken or Kool-Aid without wondering if someone’s going to get offended’ White and black Americans see race from radically different…

  • Does Diversity Breed Intolerance? BU Today Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 2014-09-25 Rich Barlow, Staff Writer Telephone: 617-358-3877 Some whites fear impending minority status, research says “Diversity” is said to be the sun of our civic solar system, shining bright harmony everywhere from society at large to university campuses. Katherine Levine Einstein is certainly an apostle…