Category: United States

  • With ‘Keanu,’ Key & Peele Break Into Feature Films — With Kittens in Tow The New York Times 2016-04-20 Dave Itzkoff, Culture Reporter There is no longer “Key & Peele,” the razor-sharp Comedy Central sketch series that ended in September. There are only Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, the comic actors and writers who used…

  • Growing up in San Antonio, [Adriana] Brown said she struggled to find other representations of herself — an Afro-Latina woman from a working class family — both in her community and literature.

  • About Latino Whiteness… The NiLP Report on Latino Politics & Policy The National Institute for Latino Policy 2016-04-10 CONTENTS “A Response to Linda Martín Alcoff’s ‘Latinos and the Category of Whiteness’” By Manuel Pastor (April 10, 2016) “Reply to Manuel Pastor” by Linda Martín Alcoff (April 10, 2016) Manuel Pastor, Professor of Sociology and American…

  • Mexican-Punjabis relation through dance NewsGram 2016-04-17 Megha Sharma the performance held on 10th and 11th april credits: kalw.org Mexican-Punjabi is a vanishing tribe The United States had always been an open land to possibilities. It is visited by a huge number of immigrants every year. California which is not only a land of renowned universities,…

  • #BlackLivesMatter in Latin America: Race, Space and Consciousness New York University Department of Social & Cultural Analysis 20 Cooper Square New York, New York 10003 Monday, 2016-04-18 18:30-20:00 EDT (Local Time) The hashtag turned social movement, #blacklivesmatter, has thrust police brutality and institutionalized racism into the American consciousness. African descendants in Latin America are concurrently…

  • Race isn’t just black or white The Beacon: The Student Voice of the University of Portland Since 1935 Portland, Oregon 2016-04-13 Rebekah Markillie, Design Editor I couldn’t have been more than seven or eight years old, on the way to the park with my dad, when a neighborhood kid asked me if I was adopted.…

  • Michele Elam: “The Souls of Mixed Folk” (NBAAS, 31/10/12) YouTube Race & Ethnicity Archive 2016-03-19 “What are you?” The question can often comes out of nowhere One can be going about her quotidian activities, or she might have just finished a meeting at work. “What are you?” The question is disorienting for most, but for…

  • Antiracism in Cuba: The Unfinished Revolution University of North Carolina Press April 2016 332 pages 6.125 x 9.25 24 halftones, notes, bibl., index Paper ISBN: 978-1-4696-2672-7 Devyn Spence Benson, Assistant Professor of History and African and African American Studies Louisiana State University Analyzing the ideology and rhetoric around race in Cuba and south Florida during…

  • Negotiating Identities: Mixed Race Individuals in China, Japan, and Korea University of San Francisco McLaren Complex – MC 250 2130 Fulton Street San Francisco, California 94117-1080 2016-04-14 through 2016-04-15 The University of San Francisco Center for Asia Pacific Studies is pleased to announce its spring symposium Negotiating Identities: Mixed-Race Individuals in China, Japan, and Korea,…

  • The PBS NewsHour Launches Year Long Conversation on Race, Diversity and Intolerance PBS NewsHour 2015-08-31 Media Relations Contacts: Nick Massella, Director of Audience Engagement and Communications James Blue, Senior Content and Special Projects Producer WASHINGTON, DC (August 31, 2015) – Michael Brown. Freddie Gray. Eric Garner. These are just three names that have dominated news…