Category: United States

  • In this 20th anniversary edition of the landmark “Black, White, Other,” journalist Lise Funderburg explores the lives of adult children of black/white unions. Her subjects’ unflinching honesty, whipsmart humor, and deep feeling result in a stunning — and enduring — portrait of race in America. New foreword by novelist Mat Johnson and links to updated…

  • Dr. Yaba Blay to Appear Tonight on “Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell” Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell FXX Wednesday, 2013-11-13, 23:00 EST (2013-11-14, 04:00Z) W. Kamau Bell, Executive Producer and Host Tonight on Totally Biased, we proudly welcome Dr. Yaba Blay!  Dr. Yaba Blay is a professor, producer, and publisher. As a researcher…

  • As part of a new collaboration with the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, NolaVie will spotlight entries from KnowLA.org—the Digital Encyclopedia of Louisiana, including unique events and people in our state’s history. This month, we commemorate the end of Storyville. On November 12th, 1917, Mayor Martin Behrman acquiesced to pressure from the US Navy and…

  • Honoring one of their own Bucks County Courier Times Levittown, Pennsylvania 2013-11-13 Phil Gianficaro, News columnist The inscription on the small old tombstone in the shadow of the majestic oak tree is practically illegible. Weathered and darkened by 148 years, the tablet-shaped marker pales in comparison to others that are more ornate in the Hatboro…

  • Drexel prof Yaba Blay’s striking new photo book “One Drop” explores how a wide range of different skin tones affects Americans’ personal identities. In  this PW excerpt, eight Philadelphia-area residents of mixed heritage concur: However light they may be, they’re still most certainly Black. Our own Kennedy Allen agrees…

  • Red: Racism and the American Indian UCLA Law Review Volume 56, Issue 3 (February 2009) pages 591-656 Bethany R. Berger, Thomas F. Gallivan, Jr. Professor of Real Property Law University of Connecticut How does racism work in American Indian law and policy? Scholarship on the subject too often has assumed that racism works for Indians…

  • Beyond Our Hearts: The Ecology of Couple Relationships California Law Review Circuit Volume 4, October 2013 pages 155-164 Holning Lau, Professor of Law University of North Carolina School of Law In his review of Professor Angela Onwuachi-Willig’s book, According to Our Hearts: Rhinelander v. Rhinelander and the Law of the Multiracial Family, Professor Holning Lau…

  • According to Our Hearts: Rhinelander v. Rhinelander and the Law of the Multiracial Family Yale University Press 2013-06-18 344 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 30 b/w illus. Cloth ISBN: 9780300166828 Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Charles M. and Marion J. Kierscht Professor of Law University of Iowa This landmark book looks at what it means to be…

  • What’s Biology Got to Do with It? The Social Life of Genetics Brooklyn Historical Society Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations Saturday, 2013-11-16, 15:00-18:00 EST (Local Time) Part One of the reading series Quantifying Bloodlines What do we learn about ourselves through genetics and genealogy? How does DNA connect with what we know about our family’s ancestry…

  • Soledad O’Brien Explores Racial and Ethnic Identity in Provocative Black in America CNN Press Room Cable News Network (CNN) 2012-12-04 Who is Black in America? Debuts Sunday, Dec. 9 at 8:00 p.m. & 11:00p.m. ET & PT U.S. Encore: Sunday, January 27, 2013,  20:00 p.m. ET, 23:00 p.m ET, and Monday, 02:00 ET International Debut on CNN International:…