Category: United States

  • Love’s Perils, Trauma’s Wounds: New Story Collections The New York Times 2021-10-15 Tracy O’Neill THE RUIN OF EVERYTHING By Lara Stapleton 123 pp. Paloma Press. Paper, $18. If love conquers all, in Stapleton’s second story collection it’s not clear then whether anyone wins much of anything from it. There is plenty of sex in this…

  • In South Carolina, a state with a painful legacy of racism, a white lawmaker on Thursday fired off an email that casually challenged the complexion of a Black Reconstruction-era lawmaker, whose portrait now hangs in a place of honor inside the State House.

  • Black women writers have long used passing stories to crack our façades of race, class, and gender.

  • The Ruin of Everything Paloma Press 2021-10-19 126 pages 5.98 X 9.02 X 0.3 inches 0.43 pounds Paperback ISBN: 978-1734496550 Lara Stapleton The Ruin of Everything tells tales of abandoned children living in adult bodies. Bastards, bi-racial half-siblings, and orphans raised by aunts, they lose their last best love through brokenness like “the impossible loop…

  • My Monticello, Fiction Henry Holt & Company (an imprint of Macmillan) 2021-10-05 240 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9781250807151 e-Book ISBN: 9781250807168 Audiobook ISBN: 9781250820723 Compact Disk ISBN: 9781250820716 Jocelyn Nicole Johnson A young woman descended from Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings driven from her neighborhood by a white militia. A university professor studying racism by conducting…

  • Rebecca Hall’s new film adaptation of the 1929 novel “Passing” has cracked open a public conversation about colorism and privilege.

  • In The Problem of the Prism, I argue that activist writers challenged the normalizing of white supremacy and imagined black futurity within the intersections of racial visibility, nation, and culture by transforming and repurposing racist and colorist ideologies. Through a wide range of cultural materials, I recuperate overlooked discourses on race and color by broadening…

  • This qualitative interview study investigated the types of parental racial-ethnic socialization messages received by Multiracial American youth over the course of their development.

  • What is at the Root of White Anxiety? Three-Fifths: Voice of Clarity 2021-10-08 Frank Robinson Austin, Texas The most recent US Census reports a significant decline in the white population, while non-white and mixed-race categories notably increased. Researchers anticipate a reduction of white wealth and power. They expect this to trigger gerrymandering efforts while giving…

  • BOSTON — The wreck of a storied military ship that served in two World Wars, performed patrols in waters off Alaska for decades, and at one point was captained by the first Black man to command a U.S. government vessel has been found, the Coast Guard said Thursday.