Category: United States

  • Pudd’nhead Wilson Harvard University Press February 2015 (Originally Published in 1894) 190 pages 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches 7 line illustrations Paperback ISBN: 9780674059832 Mark Twain (1835-1910) Introduction by: Werner Sollors, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of African and African American Studies Harvard University When a murder takes place…

  • Meditation on President Obama’s Portrait Lens Blog: Photography, Video and Visual Journalism The New York Times 2014-07-25 Maurice Berger, Research Professor and Chief Curator Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture University of Maryland, Baltimore County Dawoud Bey’s photograph of the man who would soon be president was taken on a Sunday afternoon in early…

  • The Mixed-Race Marriage of Bill de Blasio and Chirlane McCray Georgetown Law Journal of Modern Critical Race Perspectives Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 2013-12-08 Harris Davidson On November 5, Bill de Blasio, New York City’s public advocate, was elected Mayor of New York City. De Blasio’s victory had been all but assured since he prevailed in…

  • A Family Rooted in Two Realms The New York Times 2014-09-23 Neil Genzlinger, Television Critic In “black-ish,” Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross lead a family wrestling with racial issues. From left, Marsai Martin, Marcus Scribner, Yara Shahidi and Miles Brown as their children. ADAM TAYLOR / ABC ‘black-ish,’ a New ABC Comedy, Taps Racial…

  • At Least We Talk About Race in the USA: Zadie Smith on Writing, Race and Color My American Meltingpot: A Multi-Culti Mix of Identity Politics, Parenting & Pop Culture 2014-09-22 Lori L. Tharps, Associate Professor of Journalism Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania …Last week Wednesday I skipped out of work as early as possible so I…

  • Articulate While Black. Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S.: H. Samy Alim and Geneva Smitherman, Oxford University Press, New York, 2012, 224 pp., ISBN: 9780199812967, $ 99.00 (hardcover) Journal of Pragmatics Volume 71, September 2014 pages 148-150 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2014.08.010 Marta Degani, Assistant Professor Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures University of Verona, Verona,…

  • Black Fathers, Present and Accountable Lens Blog: Photography, Video and Visual Journalism The New York Times 2014-09-19 Maurice Berger, Research Professor and Chief Curator Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture University of Maryland, Baltimore County An anxious little girl hugs her father as a shark swims overhead in an aquarium. A man feeds his…

  • One Drop of Love: A Must See Show A Life with Subtitles 2014-09-22 Sarah Quezada Last week I was out of town bowling and doing improv with my co-workers. It was super fun, but my time away from Atlanta meant I was gone on the birthday of my dear friend, Katie. (You may remember her…

  • Here’s Why Louis CK’s Kids Are White But Their Mother Is Black In ‘Louie’ Business Insider 2014-09-18 Aly Weisman, Senior Editor There’s one mystery on FX show “Louie” that has never really been addressed. While Louie’s ex-wife “Janet” is played by black, Jamaican actress Susan Kelechi Watson, his two daughters are very white, very blonde…

  • No American city’s history better illustrates both the possibilities for alternative racial models and the role of the law in shaping racial identity than New Orleans, Louisiana, which prior to the Civil War was home to America’s most privileged community of people of African descent. In the eyes of the law, New Orleans’s free people…