Category: United States

  • Former Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw found guilty of rape Cable News Network (CNN) 2015-12-10 Michael Martinez, Newsdesk Editor & Writer Gigi Mann (CNN) A jury found former Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw guilty Thursday of some of the most serious charges against him, including sexual battery, forcible oral sodomy and rape. Holtzclaw…

  • Raising Mixed Race: Seattle author shows realities facing multiracial children The Seattle Globalist 2015-12-09 Sharon H. Chang The day my mixed race son was born in 2009 was a turning point for the way I thought about race. Despite living for decades as a multiracial person myself, suddenly I started asking deeper questions about race,…

  • A Romance of the Republic University Press of Kentucky 2014-07-11 (Originally published in 1867) 464 pages 6 x 9 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8131-0928-2 Web PDF ISBN: 978-0-8131-4910-3 Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880) Edited by: Dana D. Nelson, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee A Romance of the Republic, published in 1867, was Lydia…

  • Reflections on Multiracial Identity on Another Thanksgiving Passed Black Agenda Report: News, information and analysis from the black left. 2015-12-01 Danny Haiphong The U.S. imperial domain floats on raw force and fairy tales. One myth “paints the U.S. as a safe haven for people of different backgrounds instead of the genocidal settler state that it…

  • Writing Reconstruction: Racial Fluidity and National Reunion in A Romance of the Republic ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance Volume 61, Number 4, 2015 (No. 241 O.S.) pages 631-666 DOI: 10.1353/esq.2015.0017 Lori Robison, Associate Professor of English University of North Dakota Speaking to a nation traumatized by the divisive war and anxious to find…

  • The link between “tourism” and “settler colonialism” in Hawai’i Matador Network 2015-07-29 Bani Amor Maile Arvin is a Native Hawaiian feminist scholar who writes about Native feminist theories, settler colonialism, decolonization, and race and science in Hawai‘i and the broader Pacific. She is currently a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Ethnic Studies at…

  • Crossing the Line: Multiracial Comedians University of Michigan Shapiro Undergraduate Library 919 South University Avenue Screening Room 2160 Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1185 2016-01-21, 16:00-17:00 CST (Local Time) Karen E Downing, Host Contact This full-length documentary (2007, 59 mins.) analyzes how mixed-race comedians mediate multiracial identities and humor. Crossing lines of racial, ethnic, and cultural acceptability…

  • Chasing Daybreak: A Film About Mixed Race in America University of Michigan Shapiro Undergraduate Library 919 South University Avenue Screening Room 2160 Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1185 2016-01-19, 12:00-14:00 CST (Local Time) Karen E Downing, Host Contact This is one of a year-long series of events that explore what it means to be multiracial in a…

  • Sock and Buskin’s new production combines history and mysticism The Brown Daily Herald Providence, Rhode Island 2015-11-16 Jennifer Shook, Staff Writer ‘The Road Weeps, The Well Runs Dry’ examines journey of Black Seminoles to Oklahoma In Sock and Buskin’s newest production “The Road Weeps, The Well Runs Dry,” legend and history come together to present…

  • People Of Color With Albinism Ask: Where Do I Belong? Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2015-12-07 Anjuli Sastry Growing up, Natalie Devora always questioned how she fit into her African-American family. “Everyone was brown, and then there was me,” Devora says. “I’m a white-skinned black woman. That’s how I…