Category: United States

  • The Trouble With Race Foreign Affairs March/April 2015 Gideon Rose, Editor Everybody knows that racial tensions have been at the center of American political debate in recent months, but the story of racial and ethnic division is actually a global one, with a long and tortured history. For the lead package in the March/April issue,…

  • The Afro-Latino experience in the U.S. VOXXI 2012-02-09 Rosalba Ruiz Growing up in South Los Angeles in the 1970’s, Armando Brown never thought about his multiracial identity. “When I was growing up, I was black,” Brown, a 45-year-old photojournalist, says. “It was never an issue.” The son of a creole man from New Orleans and…

  • Was pro baseball’s first African-American player passing for white? Vox 2015-04-11 Jenée Desmond-Harris William Edward White on the 1879 Brown baseball team. White is in the second row, seated and wearing a hat. (Source: Brown University Archives via Slate) A story about professional baseball’s little-known first black player (well, possible first black player) raises as…

  • A New Phase in Anti-Obama Attacks The New York Times 2015-04-11 The Editorial Board It is a peculiar, but unmistakable, phenomenon: As Barack Obama’s presidency heads into its twilight, the rage of the Republican establishment toward him is growing louder, angrier and more destructive. Republican lawmakers in Washington and around the country have been focused…

  • Harlem and After: African American Literature 1925-present (EAS3241) University of Exeter Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom 2015-02-08 Taking as its point of departure the landmark special issue of Survey Graphic that announced the arrival on the artistic scene of the “New Negro” (1925), this module provides a historical survey of African American writing, 1925 to present.…

  • Natasha Trethewey Reactions The Arc of the Universe Bends Towards Justice The College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio 2015-04-02 Caitlin Ziegert Mccombs Natasha Trethewey, a Pulitzer prize winner and past Poet Laureate of the United States, came to visit and read some of her poetry for an audience much too large for Severance 09. After listening…

  • Asian, American, Woman, Philosopher The Stone The New York Times 2015-04-06 George Yancy, Professor of Philosophy Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Emily S. Lee, Associate Professor of Philosophy California State University, Fullerton This is the ninth in a series of interviews with philosophers on race that I am conducting for The Stone. This week’s conversation is…

  • Mashpee Musician Produces Documentary About Native, African Music CapeNews.net Falmouth, Massachusetts 2015-01-19 Sam Houghton Morgan J. Peters, a Mashpee troubadour in Afro-Native-American-inspired music, with his band the Groovalottos, is on his way to producing a full-length album as well as a documentary. The “mini-film” will explore the combination of black and Native American music and…

  • Blaxicans (Black Mexicans) of California African American – Latino World 2015-04-07 Bill Smith This post is not about the black Mexicans who were historically born and raised in Mexico, but those born and raised in Los Angeles, California’s metropolitan area to Mexican and African-American parents. According to the University of Southern California researcher Walter Thompson-Hernández,…

  • How I Learned to Stop Worshipping Whiteness While Growing Up Biracial For Harriet 2015-04-08 Joleen Brantle I haven’t always been very racially aware. When I was a child Pokémon cards, cartoons, and school were of vastly greater importance to me. I was raised in a very diverse city with a strong Latino presence. I had…