Category: United States

  • UMASS Recognizes Growing Interdisciplinary Study of Black Germans in Academia Diverse: Issues in Higher Education 2013-08-12 Jamal Watson AMHERST, Mass.—In an effort to recognize a relatively young academic discipline that many in the academy have never heard of before, nearly a hundred students and scholars gathered at Amherst College over the weekend to discuss their…

  • Brown Babies: The Mischlingskinder Story Regina Griffin Films, Inc. 2011 102 minutes color United States Regina Griffin, Director Brown Babies: The Mischlingskinder Story reveals the tragic lives of biracial, bicultural children, unwanted, ignored and forgotten by enemy nations. Imagine being born in a place and time where racism and hatred run rampant, and your mother…

  • More than a “Passing” Sophistication: Dress, Film Regulation, and the Color Line in 1930s American Films WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly Volume 41, Numbers 1 & 2, Spring/Summer 2013 pages 60-86 DOI: 10.1353/wsq.2013.0048 Ellen Scott, Assistant Professor of Media Studies Queens College, City University of New York When we think of African American representations of 1930s…

  • Keeping Pictures, Keeping House: Harriet and Louisa Jacobs, Fanny Fern, and the Unverifiable History of Seeing the Mulatta ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance Volume 59, Number 2, 2013 (No. 231 O.S.) pages 262-290 DOI: 10.1353/esq.2013.0022 Michael A. Chaney, Associate Professor of English Dartmouth College Daguerreotype of Louise Jacobs. From the Fanny Fern and…

  • A Tale of Two Seminole Counties Indian Voices August 2013 page 7 Phil Fixico Some coincidences can’t be ignored, like February the 26th, in both Florida’s and Oklahoma’s Seminole Counties. What does this date and these counties have in common. Trayvon Martin was killed on February 26th, 2012, in Seminole County, Florida. He was born…

  • How my white mother shaped me into a black man Melissa Harris-Perry MSNBC 2013-08-13 Albert L. Butler, Radio Host 900 AM WURD, Philadelphia I am an avid watcher of Melissa Harris-Perry, so I was not at all surprised–and was quite pleased–when host Melissa Harris-Perry tackled the subject of white mothers raising black boys in America…

  • Alien Citizen, The Play World Premier at the Asylum Lab 1078 Lillian Way Hollywood, California 90038 Fridays & Saturdays @ 20:00 PDT (Local Time) Preview May 3, 2013, Opens May 4 – June 1 Written and performed by Elizabeth Liang Directed by Sofie Calderon Associate Produced by Richard Lee, Karen Smith, and Wendy Belcher Co-produced…

  • Schwarzsein, Weißsein, Deutschsein: Racial Narratives and Counter-discourses in German Film After 1950 Duke University 2012 286 pages Michelle René Eley Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Carolina-Duke Program – German Studies in the Graduate School of Duke University This dissertation uses film to explore…

  • Piesche Publishes Anthology on Audre Lorde Hamilton College, Clinton, New York College News 2012-12-02 In commemoration of the 20th anniversary of Audre Lorde’s death, Visiting Instructor of German & Russian Studies Peggy Piesche published a new anthology, Eurer Schweigen nützt euch nichts: Audre Lorde und die Schwarze Frauenbewegung in Deutschland (Your Silence Will Not Protect…

  • Black and White Medicine PsycCRITIQUES Volume 58, Number 32 (August 2013) 5 pages Alejandra Suarez, Professor of Psychology Antioch University, Seattle A review of Race in a Bottle: The Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine in a Post-Genomic Age by Jonathan Kahn New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2013. 311 pp. ISBN 978-0-231-16298-2 (hardcover); ISBN…