Category: United States

  • In “The Alexander Litany,” intersectionality collides with campus North by Northwestern 2016-02-03 Lauren Sonnenberg Roger Mason as Clarence, Eliott Sagay as Joseph, Grant Lewis as Jackson, Jeff Paschal as Max. Photo by Alexandria Woodson “Look into my eyes and you’ll see that fear ain’t only skin deep, at least not for me,” implored Max Alexander,…

  • One Drop of Love: Presented by Mesa Arts Center as part of the Performing Live Series Mesa Arts Center Nesbitt/Elliott Playhouse One East Main Street Mesa, Arizona 85201 Telephone: 480.644.6500 Friday, 2016-02-05, 19:30 MST (Local Time) Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni How does our belief in ‘race’ affect our most intimate relationships? One Drop of Love travels…

  • Students propose multiracial peer liaison program Yale Daily News New Haven, Connecticut 2016-02-03 Monica Wang, Staff Reporter When Chandler Gregoire ’17 stepped onto Yale’s campus as a freshman more than three years ago, she was assigned two peer liaisons: one from the Afro-American Cultural Center and the other from the Asian American Cultural Center. Ethnically,…

  • Biracial Sons More Likely Than Daughters To Identify As Black NBC News 2016-02-01 Aris Folley Black-white biracial sons of interracial parents, in which one parent is black and the other is white, are more likely than their female counterparts to identify as black, according to a study found in the February issue of the American…

  • Racialization and its paradigms: From Ireland to North America Current Sociology Volume 64, Number 2 (March 2016) pages 213-227 DOI: 10.1177/0011392115614782 Vilna Bashi Treitler, Professor of Black and Latino Studies; Professor of Sociology City University of New York This article offers a template for understanding and analyzing racialization as a paradigm. Further, this template is…

  • Exploring the geographies, genealogies, and concepts of race and gender of the African diaspora produced by the Atlantic slave trade

  • Trauma and Race: A Lacanian Study of African American Racial Identity Baylor University Press February 2016 190 pages 9in x 6in Hardback ISBN: 9781602587342 Sheldon George, Professor of English Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts African American identity is racialized. And this racialized identity has animated and shaped political resistance to racism. Hidden, though, are the psychological…

  • Bridging the Divide: My Life Rutgers University Press 2006-11-09 352 pages 16, 5.75 x 8.75 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-3905-8 Senator Edward W. Brooke (1919-2015) President Lyndon Johnson never understood it. Neither did President Richard Nixon. How could a black man, a Republican no less, be elected to the United States Senate from liberal, Democratic Massachusetts-a state…

  • Daniel Lind Ramos and the Visual Politics of Race in Puerto Rican Art Theory and Critique of Art in the Caribbean 2015-11-11 Fabienne Viala, Associate Professor; Director of the Year Abroad; Director of the Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies School of Modern Languages and Cultures University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom This article discusses…

  • “What? Black people in the Dominican Republic?” Yes amig@*, there are Black Dominican people whose ancestors descend from the African motherland. However, the question is not so much, “Are there Black people in the Dominican Republic?” as it is “Are Dominican people Black?”