Category: United States

  • 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…

  • An Emerging Entry In America’s Multiracial Vocabulary: ‘Blaxican’ Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2016-03-08 Adrian Florido When Melissa Adams and her sister were growing up in Lynwood, near Compton, Calif., their black father and Mexican mother taught them to be proud of all aspects of their identity: They were…

  • Afro-Latin America State University of New York, Albany Summer 2016 Course Info: ALCS 203 Luis Paredes Analysis of blackness in Latin America with a focus on the representations of peoples of African descent in national identities and discourses. The course examines some of the “myths of foundation” of Latin American nations (e.g. The “cosmic race”…

  • Variations on racial tension The Harvard Gazette 2016-02-26 John Laidler, Harvard Correspondent For every nation, a different set of challenges, panelists say A panel discussion Wednesday highlighted striking contrasts in how nations perceive and grapple with racial inequality. Tracing evolving attitudes toward race and discrimination in Latin America, Europe, and the United States, a trio…

  • “Mulatto: It’s Not a Cool Word” The Atlantic 2016-03-04 Nadine Ajaka, Associate Producer for Video Evoking the Mulatto is a multimedia project examining black mixed identity in the 21st century, through the lens of the history of racial classification in the United States. It was created by the filmmaker Lindsay Catherine Harris, and features compelling…

  • White People Can Be President, Too The Daily Show with Trevor Noah 2016-03-08 After interviewing kids who have grown up under President Obama, Jordan Klepper explains that even white people can hold the nation’s highest office. (5:10).

  • Why Zoe Saldana was the wrong black woman to play Nina Simone The Telegraph 2016-03-04 Emma Dabiri With her long silky hair and brown tan skin, Zoe Saldana may well be black. But is she “black enough” to play Nina Simone? Some people seem to think not. Ms Simone’s surviving family have asked Saldana, who…

  • Meet Yaba Blay WUNC 91.5 North Carolina Public Radio 2016-03-07 Charlie Shelton, Digital News Producer Frank Stasio, Host “The State of Things” Yaba Blay is the Dan Blue Endowed Chair in Political Science at N.C. Central University Sabriya Simon Growing up in New Orleans, Yaba Blay saw firsthand the different roles one navigates as an…

  • The Curious Presidency of Barack Obama Political Insight Volume 7, Number 1 (April 2016) pages 8-11 DOI: 10.1177/2041905816637452 James D. Boys, Associate Professor of International Political Studies Richmond University, London, United Kingdom After two terms in the White House, Barack Obama’s Presidency has entered its final year. James D. Boys assesses his record in office…

  • Colored Perceptions: Racially Distinctive Names and Assessments of Skin Color American Behavioral Scientist Volume 60, Number 4 (April 2016) pages 420-441 DOI: 10.1177/0002764215613395 Denia Garcia Department of Sociology Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey Maria Abascal Department of Sociology Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey Scholars are increasingly employing skin color measures to investigate racial stratification beyond…