Category: United States

  • Rescuing Discarded Images of Everyday Black Life The New York Times 2015-10-20 David Gonzalez, Side Street Columnist Who throws away family photos? How do faded, blurry squares that chronicled weddings, ballgames and goofy moments at home end up abandoned, tossed to the curb or in boxes bought sight unseen at storage auctions? Zun Lee has…

  • Defying the Stereotype of the Broken Black Family The New Yorker 2015-10-12 Lucy McKeon For his series “Father Figure,” begun in 2011, the photographer Zun Lee created quiet and tender portraits of black fathers with their children: one kisses the tiny hand of his baby while riding the subway; another goofs around at bedtime, his…

  • Photo Gallery Highlights Multiracial Student Experiences The Havard Crimson 2015-10-26 Aafreen Azmi, Contributing Writer Brandon J. Dixon, Contributing Writer Students study the portraits on display at “OTHER: A Multiracial Student Photo Gallery” at the exhibition’s opening on Sunday afternoon. Eliza R. Pugh Students expressed their desire to define their racial identities on their own terms…

  • Race In R.I.: The Invisible Natives The Providence Journal Providence, Rhode Island 2015-10-24 G. Wayne Miller, Journal Staff Writer Their ancestors were the state’s original settlers, but today’s Indians say whites ‘don’t even see us’ First of two parts EXETER – On this fine autumn morning, Paulla Dove Jennings welcomes a visitor into her home…

  • Faculty Panel: Multiracialism Informing Academic Work University of Michigan Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery (Room 100) 913 S University Ave Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 2015-10-26, 16:00-18:00 CDT (Local Time) Series: What Does it Mean to be Multiracial in a Monoracial World? Join us for the first in a year-long series of events that explore what it…

  • Young Mr. Obama: Chicago and the Making of a Black President Bloomsbury Press 2010 288 pages 5 1/2″ x 8 1/4″ Hardback ISBN: 9781608190607 Edward McClelland Barack Obama’s inspirational politics and personal mythology have overshadowed his fascinating history. Young Mr. Obama gives us the missing chapter: the portrait of the politician as a young leader,…

  • Cook: Race and the practice of medicine The Casper Star Tribune Casper, Wyoming 2015-10-24 Edith Cook Edith Cook/Perspective We now know once and for all that race is not a biological phenomenon but a social construct. The Human Genome Project, completed in 2000, established that, genetically, all of us human beings are more than 99.9…

  • 309 | Passing in White America Chicago Humanities Festival Karla Scherer Endowed Lecture Series for the University of Chicago Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts Film Screening Room 201 915 E 60th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637 Sunday, 2015-10-25; 17:30-18:30 CDT (Local Time) Between the 18th and 20th centuries, countless African Americans passed as…

  • I had heard of Wild Goose Festival from friends who had braved the woods in years past, but I wasn’t sure it was my kind of thing. I certainly didn’t expect to be a part of the gathering anytime soon. Then my friend Micky asked me to attend. She wanted to know if I would…

  • Sometimes I engage in conversations about whiteness that make people bristle. Questions are often raised like: so is “white” automatically wrong? Why is “whiteness” evil? Are you saying “white people” are inherently bad? My impression is that there is a bit of talking past one another that happens in these discussions, so it is my…