Category: United States

  • As an American, I follow my roots like trails across the globe. My mother is from Kansas and is of German descent, and my deceased father was black with roots in North Carolina, and before then, Africa. Arguably you can trace all of us back to Africa. But my parents’ union created me: a black…

  • N.Y. mayor’s race front-runner cast as a ‘socialist redistributionist’ The Christian Science Monitor 2013-09-04 Harry Bruinius, Staff writer Democrat Bill de Blasio, the most liberal major candidate in the New York City mayor’s race, is leading polls ahead of the Sept. 10 primary. Republicans sense an opportunity. The surprising ascendancy of New York City Public…

  • Black Coral: A Daughter’s Apology To Her Asian Island Mother Research at the National Archives and Beyond BlogTalk Radio Thursday, 2013-09-05, 21:00 EDT, (Friday, 2013-09-06, 01:00Z) Bernice Bennett, Host C. D. Holmes-Miller, Clergywoman, Theologian, Designer, Author Mother with Clergywoman, Theologian, Communications Designer and author, The Rt. Reverend Dr. Cheryl D. Holmes-Miller aka Bishop Miller, M.S.,…

  • The Forgotten People: Cane River’s Creoles of Color (revised edition) Louisiana State University Press November 2013 (First published in 1977) 480 pages 6.00 x 9.00 inches 25 halftones, 3 maps, 3 charts Paperback ISBN: 9780807137130 Gary B. Mills (1944–2002), Professor of History University of Alabama Revised by: Elizabeth Shown Mills Foreword by: H. Sophie Burton…

  • The New New Thing, Again MPG: unofficial thoughts, whimsical critiques, and occasional cultural commentary 2013-02-08 Matthew Pratt Guterl, Professor of Africana studies and American studies Brown University Someone referred to mixed race children as particularly “beautiful” the other day, and it made me think of this: In 1993, the cover of Time magazine featured a…

  • Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective: “Race in Motion: Traversing the Transnational Emotionscape of White Beauty in Indonesia” Seminar Series: Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective University of California, Merced California Room 5200 North Lake Rd. Merced, California 95343 2013-10-31, 10:30 PDT (Local Time) L. Ayu Saraswati, Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies University of Hawai‘i,…

  • Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective: “The Return of Pseudoscientific Racism? DNA Ancestry Testing, Race, and the New Eugenics Movement” Seminar Series: Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective University of California, Merced California Room 5200 North Lake Rd. Merced, California 95343 2013-10-17, 10:30 PDT (Local Time) Paul Spickard, Professor of History University of California, Santa…

  • The Color of Color-Blindness: Whites’ Race Talk in ‘Post-Racial’ America Reitman/DeGrange Memorial Lecture Series Dartmouth College Hanover, New Hampshire Haldeman 41 (Kreindler Conference Hall) Thursday, 2013-09-26, 16:00-17:30 EDT (Local Time) Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Professor of Sociology Duke University Professor Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Sociology Deptartment Chair at Duke University, will deconstruct whites’ post-racial or color-blind talk & suggest…

  • Walking While Black in the ‘White Gaze’ The New York Times 2013-09-01 George Yancy, Professor of Philosophy Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania “Man, I almost blew you away!” Those were the terrifying words of a white police officer — one of those who policed black bodies in low income areas in North Philadelphia in the late…

  • Let’s Learn From the Past: Cumberland Posey Jr. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 2013-08-29 Michele Sneddon, History Center Communications Assistant As a standout player, manager and owner, Cumberland Willis Posey Jr. built the Homestead Grays into one of the most successful franchises in Negro League baseball history. Born on June 20, 1890, Posey grew up in a…