Category: United States

  • Interracial Marriage and the Civil Rights Revolution: A Personal Journey The University of Pennsylvania Provost presents The Inaugural Provost’s Lecture on Diversity University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School Room 110 2013-11-13, 17:00-19:00 EST (Local Time) Dorothy E. Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology; Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of…

  • Uncovering records that link the slaveholder and enslaved Examiner.com 2013-12-02 Robin Foster In “Untangling the slaveholder and enslaved relationships,” several questions were raised about a possible link between Anderson Chick and Pettus Chick after it was discovered that Anderson and his mother, Eliza, lived next door to the Chick family for decades. If you are…

  • Scripts of Blackness and the Racial Dynamics of Nationalism in Puerto Rico Papers of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research University of Puerto Rico, Cayey Volume 6 (2009) 38 pages Dr. Isar P. Godreau Institute of Interdisciplinary Research University of Puerto Rico, Cayey National identity, no matter how differently defined, is often constructed through claims to…

  • UCLA receiver Thomas Duarte proud of biracial heritage Los Angeles Daily News 2013-11-25 Jack Wang, Staff Reporter The smell hits him three or four blocks away. Thomas Duarte is coming back from a run around his Orange County neighborhood, and the day is hot enough that the windows of his house have been cracked open.…

  • Changing Space, Making Race: Distance, Nostalgia, and the Folklorization of Blackness in Puerto Rico Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power Volume 9,  Issue 3, 2002 pages 281-304 DOI: 10.1080/10702890213969 Isar Godreau Institute of Interdisciplinary Research University of Puerto Rico, Cayey In this article, I critique some of the discursive terms in which blackness is…

  • American Identity in the Age of Obama Routledge 2013-11-28 250 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-72201-8 Edited by: Amílcar Antonio Barreto, Associate Professor of Political Science Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts Richard L. O’Bryant, Assistant Professor of Political Science; Director of the John D. O’Bryant African American Institute Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts The election of Barack Obama as…

  • Carlton Mackey: Conversations beyond color Emory Profile Emory News Center 2013-11-22 Kimber Williams As director of Emory’s Ethics and the Arts program — and a lifelong photographer and filmmaker — Carlton Mackey is used to exploring the questions that intrigue him through an artist’s lens.  So as he prepared to become a father for the…

  • Many Rivers to Cross: From Black Power to the Black President The Root 2013-11-26 Peniel E. Joseph, Professor of History Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts In the sixth and final installment of his PBS series, Henry Louis Gates Jr. leads us from the black power movement to the historic election of Barack Obama. Americans have notoriously…

  • Hello World: How Nike Sold Tiger Woods The Margins (After 1989) Asian American Writer’s Workshop 2012-08-02 Hiram Perez, Assistant Professor of English Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York How did a multinational corporation like Nike appeal to diverse markets without violating the principle of colorblindness that became increasingly and insidiously sacrosanct in the U.S. in the…

  • How to Rehabilitate a Mulatto: The Iconography of Tiger Woods Chapter in East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture (pages 222-245) New York University Press May 2005 382 pages 29 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 9780814719626 Paperback ISBN: 9780814719633 Edited By: Shilpa Davé, Assistant Dean, College of Arts and Sciences; Assistant Professor of Media Studies and American Studies…