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  • My mixed-race sons look white, but that doesn’t mean racism stays away

    My mixed-race sons look white, but that doesn’t mean racism stays away She Knows 2016-07-09 Fahmida Rashid My mixed-race sons can ‘pass’ for white, and that creates its own pile of issues The first time was when Jake was in kindergarten. He was showing off the drawing of our family: father, mother, baby brother and…

  • How Reggie Yates went from kids’ TV to confronting neo-Nazis

    How Reggie Yates went from kids’ TV to confronting neo-Nazis The Guardian 2016-06-28 Hannah J. Davies Louis Theroux 2.0: Reggie Yates in a cell at Bexar County Detention Center. He braves Russian far-right rallies and Texas prison cells for his job. Meet the man helping to reinvent the documentary for Generation Y While filming in…

  • Racism twists and distorts everything

    Racism twists and distorts everything The Washington Post 2016-07-08 Darryl Fears, National Enviromental Reporter For three straight mornings, I’ve eaten breakfast sprinkled with madness. Throughout this week that started with July 4, I’ve woken to horrible news that was tough to swallow. Like everyone else, I watched videos that captured the nation’s racial angst —…

  • NYC AfroLatino Fest Comes at an Important Time

    NYC AfroLatino Fest Comes at an Important Time Sounds and Colours 2016-07-05 Gina Vergel It seems the fourth edition of AfroLatinoFest in New York City comes at a crucial time. A survey by the Pew Research Center, released in March, points to a disconnect in how some Afro-Latinos living in the United States report their…

  • Colorblindness is not Progressive: a Review of “The Color of Water”

    Colorblindness is not Progressive: a Review of “The Color of Water” The Tempest 2016-06-11 Maya Williams We should make it clear that the concept of colorblindness isn’t just a white perspective to have or to talk about. The Color of Water: a Black Man’s Tribute to his White Mother (1995) tells the story of a…

  • 5 Steps Latinos Can Take to Combat Anti-Blackness

    5 Steps Latinos Can Take to Combat Anti-Blackness Remezcla 2016-07-09 Andrew S. Vargas We are all reeling from the events of this past week. The deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of police have become an all-too-familiar narrative in our public life, but each time we are confronted with these images it dredges…

  • “Yes We Can” Barack Obama’s Proverbial Rhetoric

    “Yes We Can” Barack Obama’s Proverbial Rhetoric Peter Lang Publishing 2009 352 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4331-0668-2 Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4331-0667 Wolfgang Mieder, Professor of German and Folklore University of Vermont As President Barack Obama outlined his promise for change during the presidential campaign, he made effective use of proverbs and proverbial phrases, and invented many quotable…

  • Obama’s Delicate Balance on Issue of Race and Policing

    Obama’s Delicate Balance on Issue of Race and Policing The New York Times 2017-07-08 Mark Landler, White House Correspondent Michael D. Shear, White House Correspondent WARSAW — As Air Force One headed for Europe on Thursday afternoon, President Obama holed up in the plane’s office editing a Facebook post meant to express his anguish at…

  • Can Biracial Activists Speak To Black Issues?

    While my first instinct was to celebrate Jesse Williams’ recent Humanitarian Award from BET, my second instinct, which came just seconds later, was to brace myself for the backlash.

  • Paul Gilroy: Race and ‘Useful Violence’

    Paul Gilroy: Race and ‘Useful Violence’ Public Seminar 2016-07-08 McKenzie Wark, Professor of Culture and Media in Liberal Studies The New School for Social Research #BLM passes The New School. Aimé Césaire called it: the so-called west is a decaying civilization. In both the United States and Europe, where institutions are receding, a base level…