Category: United States

  • Proud of Obama’s Presidency, Blacks Are Sad to See Him Go The New York Times 2016-03-12 Yamiche Alcindor CHICAGO — In his 30s and 40s, the Rev. C.T. Vivian rode with the Freedom Riders, organized sit-ins in Nashville and worked closely with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Many years later, before the 2008…

  • Mixed-Race Politics: Bill de Blasio’s 2013 New York City Mayoral Campaign University of Michigan Haven Hall, Room 4701 505 State Street Ann Arbor, Michigan Monday, 2016-03-14, 17:30 CDT (Local Time) Michelle May-Curry American Culture Please join the Black Humanities Collective as we workshop a presentation by Michelle May-Curry, a doctoral student in American Culture. Dinner…

  • How Trump Happened Slate 2016-03-13 Jamelle Bouie, Chief Political Correspondent It’s not just anger over jobs and immigration. White voters hope Trump will restore the racial hierarchy upended by Barack Obama. “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win,” goes the line attributed to Mahatma Gandhi. Typically,…

  • Before People Called Me A Spic, They Called Me A Nigger Medium 2016-03-11 Pablo Guzmán It was a throwaway line I used. Deliberately. Speaking to mostly Latino and African-American audiences. Back in the day. “Before people called me a spic, they called me a nigger.” And it hit the mark. The hoots, applause, whistles and…

  • “Kiss me, my slave owners were Irish” Medium 2015-03-16 Liam Hogam As many of you already know, I have engaged with the “we were slaves too!” narrative on multiple forums and platforms for the past few months. Now I plan to explore some of the uncomfortable truths that this mythology tends to obscure. This Saint…

  • “A Hindu is white although he is black”: Hindu Alterity and the Performativity of Religion and Race between the United States and the Caribbean Comparative Studies in Society and History Volume 58, Issue 01, January 2016 pages 181-210 DOI: 10.1017/S0010417515000614 Alexander Rocklin Department of Religious Studies Willamette University, Salem, Oregon This essay uses the controversies…

  • A Son of the Wealthiest Planter in the South Convicted of a Great Crime. The Anderson Intellingencer Anderson Court House., South Carolina Thursday Morning, 1875-05-20 (Volume X, Number 44) page 1, column 3 Source: Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. United States Library of Congress. “William S. Calhoun, convicted of forgery on evidence of his quadroon…

  • Off the record: Wright State’s Natasha McPherson pulls histories of Creole women from obscure public documents Dialogue: Newsletter for Faculty & Staff Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio 2015-02-03 Jim Hannah, Assistant Director of Public Relations Natasha McPherson, an assistant professor of history, has spent 10 years documenting the previously untold history of Creole women. With…

  • Unpublished Black Asian History Grits and Sushi: my musings on okinawa, race, militarization, and blackness 2016-03-08 Mitzi Uehara Carter This photo captures a quiet story of a multicultural South, black philanthropy, transpacific militarism and its hauntings, the organizing strength of of Black women, and the power of Black journalism and photography. How does this one…

  • EXCLUSIVE: Misty Copeland on overcoming adversity, fighting for diversity in ballet The State Columbia, South Carolina 2016-03-09 Erin Shaw Misty Copeland Provided photo The prima ballerina talks body image and being named the first black woman principal dancer Copeland comes to Columbia for a ballet fundraiser with Elgin native Brooklyn Mack There was time when…