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  • White people, don’t tell me what Martin Luther King would think of Black Lives Matter

    White people, don’t tell me what Martin Luther King would think of Black Lives Matter Vox 2016-07-08 Jon Crowley Toronto, Ontario, Canada I woke up Thursday morning and accidentally watched a video of Alton Sterling being killed by the police. In a world of social feeds and autoplaying video, I’m far from the only person…

  • MSU faculty contribute to book on white privilege

    MSU faculty contribute to book on white privilege Mississippi State University 2016-07-01 Contact: Allison Matthews STARKVILLE, Miss.—Two Mississippi State faculty members helped lead a literary effort examining the basis and scope of racial identity as an American social structure. Stephen Middleton, professor of history and director for African American Studies at MSU, along with associate…

  • #BlackLivesMatter

    #BlackLivesMatter The Cairo Review of Global Affairs Spring 2015 Reverend Charles Williams II, Senior Pastor King Solomon Baptist Church, Detroit, Michigan Demonstrator protesting the police killing of teenager Michael Brown, Ferguson, Aug. 18, 2014. Charlie Riedel/Associated Press. Conservative backlash against Barack Obama and continuing police brutality against blacks indicates the country’s legacy of slavery has…

  • The Best “Worst President”: What the Right Gets Wrong About Barack Obama

    The Best “Worst President”: What the Right Gets Wrong About Barack Obama Dey Street Books (an imprint of HarperCollins) 2016-06-28 336 pages Trimsize: 5.75 in (w) x 8.25 in (h) x 1.274 in (d) Hardcover ISBN: 9780062443052 E-book ISBN: 9780062443090 Mark Hannah Illustrated by Bob Staake Political analyst and Democratic campaign veteran Mark Hannah and…

  • Picking Sides: An Exploratory Documentary on Multiraciality

    Picking Sides: An Exploratory Documentary on Multiraciality Arizona State University December 2015 Amanda Catherine Cavazos Multiracial individuals are the fastest growing demographic group in the United States. In order to explore and gain insight into how mixed-race individuals understand and negotiate their identity, this project includes a documentary of compiled interviews with multiracial individuals. These…

  • The Common Cause: Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution

    The Common Cause: Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution University of North Carolina Press June 2016 Approx. 640 pages 21 halftones, 1 figs., 7 maps, 33 tables, notes, index 6.125 x 9.25 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-4696-2663-5 Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia Robert G. Parkinson, Assistant Professor…

  • A DNA Test Won’t Explain Elizabeth Warren’s Ancestry

    A DNA Test Won’t Explain Elizabeth Warren’s Ancestry Slate 2016-06-29 Matt Miller You’re not 28 percent Finnish, either. Our genes dictate certain things about us, but ethnicity is not derived from a single gene. Scott Brown, the former Massachusetts senator who lost to Elizabeth Warren in the 2012 election, has decided to dredge up old…

  • The Pain of Passing

    The Pain of Passing Reviews in American History Volume 44, Number 2, June 2016 pages 264-269 DOI: 10.1353/rah.2016.0028 Renee Romano, Professor of History, Africana Studies, and Comparative American Studies Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio Allyson Hobbs. A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014. 382 pp. Figures,…

  • Drawing Black History

    Drawing Black History Bostonia Fall 2015 Rich Barlow, Staff Writer Artwork by Joel Christian Gill Graphic novels bring forgotten stories to life Home to about 50 mixed-race descendants of a freed slave, Malaga Island off the coast of Maine seemed an oasis of racial harmony in 1912. But then the state, lobbied by ostensible “reformers”…

  • Strange Fruit: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History

    Strange Fruit: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History Fulcrum Publishing May 2014 176 pages 8 X 10 Paperback ISBN: 9781938486296 Joel Christian Gill Strange Fruit Volume I is a collection of stories from early African American history that represent the oddity of success in the face of great adversity. Each of the nine illustrated chapters chronicles…