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  • Commodification of the Black Body, Sexual Objectification and Social Hierarchies during Slavery

    Commodification of the Black Body, Sexual Objectification and Social Hierarchies during Slavery The Earlham Historical Journal: An Undergraduate Journal of Historical Inquiry Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana Volume VII: Issue II (Spring 2015) pages 21-43 Iman Cooper The horror of the institution of slavery during the late eighteenth century was not that it displaced millions of…

  • Crucifying the White Savior (Film)

    Crucifying the White Savior (Film) Shadow and Act 2016-06-29 Andre Seewood We no longer have to forgive them, for they know exactly what they are doing. The new film by Gary Ross, “The Free State of Jones” is uncontestably a White savior film. Laid bare, “The Free State of Jones” is a simplistically constructed tale…

  • “Daddy, I wish there weren’t any Black people.”

    “Daddy, I wish there weren’t any Black people.” Medium 2016-05-05 Abe Lateiner Taking a deep breath, I respond to my daughter with a wish of my own. I’ve begun to see that it’s not about having the “right” answers when kids ask about race. Don’t get me wrong: I think there are better and worse…

  • Meet Anthony Ocampo, the Professor Who Wrote a Book on Why Latinos and Filipinos are Primos

    Meet Anthony Ocampo, the Professor Who Wrote a Book on Why Latinos and Filipinos are Primos Remezcla 2016-07-12 Kevin Nadal Anthony Ocampo As one of the few Filipino American psychology professors in the US, it can get lonely. I am the only Filipino American professor on my campus and one of the few tenured Filipino…

  • FACING FORWARD: A Panel Discussion on Mixed-Race/Ethnic Japanese Americans and Community

    FACING FORWARD: A Panel Discussion on Mixed-Race/Ethnic Japanese Americans and Community Japanese American Service Committee of Chicago 4427 N. Clark Street Chicago, Illinois 60640 2016-07-19, 18:30-20:00 CDT (Local Time) The Japanese American Service Committee Legacy Center Presents A “Memories of Now” Seminar Series Presentation Co-sponsored by the Chicago Japanese American Historical Society (CJAHS) and the…

  • Barack Obama and the Rhetoric of Hope by Mark S. Ferrara (review) [Ellis]

    Barack Obama and the Rhetoric of Hope by Mark S. Ferrara (review) [Ellis] Utopian Studies Volume 27, Number 2, 2016 pages 382-386 Cameron Ellis Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada Mark S. Ferrara. Barack Obama and the Rhetoric of Hope, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2013. 204 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-0-7864-6793-8 Mark S. Ferrara’s principle scholarly interests…

  • The Danger Of Unchallenged Racism In Interracial Relationships

    The Danger Of Unchallenged Racism In Interracial Relationships The Establishment 2016-07-18 TaLynn Kel It shouldn’t surprise me that interracial relationships are here to stay, considering that I’m in one. Still, I worry about the people in them. When I started dating “Kevin,” I was concerned about the demographics of the relationship. I worried about how…

  • Barack Obama and the Rhetoric of Hope

    Barack Obama and the Rhetoric of Hope McFarland 2013 204 pages softcover (6 x 9) Print ISBN: 978-0-7864-6793-8 Ebook ISBN: 978-1-4766-0339-1 Mark S. Ferrara, Assistant Professor of English State University of New York, Oneonta The historical and literary antecedents of the President’s campaign rhetoric can be traced to the utopian traditions of the Western world.…

  • Racial Mixedness in the Contemporary United States and South Africa: On the Politics of Impurity and Antiracist Praxis

    This article is motivated by a concern about the increasing embrace of apolitical and ahistorical notions of racial “mixedness” and “impurity.” It draws on recent examples from the United States and South Africa in order to direct attention to the difficulties of identifying logics that, on the face of it, seem to evade conventional claims…

  • Leslie Barlow’s mixed-race identity inspires her to paint underrepresented people

    Leslie Barlow’s mixed-race identity inspires her to paint underrepresented people City Pages Minneapolis, Minnesota 2016-07-18 Erica Rivera There are plenty of portrait painters in Minnesota, but few have captured such a wide range of diverse faces in the tender and beautiful way Leslie Barlow does. The recent MCAD MFA grad focuses on the underrepresented faces…