Category: United States

  • New book details racism faced by black soldiers who helped build Alaska Highway Edmonton Journal Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 2013-08-02 Chris Zdeb EDMONTON – Author John Virtue admits he knew “absolutely nothing” about The Black Soldiers Who Built the Alaska Highway, which is also the title of his latest book, before he started researching the topic…

  • Obama Warms To Speaking Personally About Race Weekend Edition Saturday National Public Radio 2013-08-13 Linda Wertheimer, Senior National Correspondent and Host Ari Schapiro, White House Correspondent On race, Barack Obama often says he is not president of black America, but of the United States of America. Though he has not avoided the subject during his…

  • Actor Guilt 2nd Story Chicago, Illinois 2012-06-07 Khanisha Foster Coming up on two years ago I moved to L.A., and since that time I have been writing. Writing creative non-fiction for 2nd Story, an organization that has stolen my heart, and writing my memoir—I’m the kid of a former Black Panther career criminal and heroin-addicted…

  • 2nd Story’s “Cruel Summer” Ends Up Sweet Gapers Block Chicago, Illinois 2013-08-01 Ines Bellina The night’s theme may have been “Cruel Summer: Stories of Learning the Hard Way,” but 2nd Story‘s first-ever appearance at City Winery last Monday gave audience members the giddy feeling of a summer fling. Combining storytelling and live music against the…

  • Colleges Help Ithaca Thrive In a Region Of Struggles The New York Times 2013-08-04 Jesse McKinley ITHACA, N.Y. — In many ways, this city is not so special. It has a nice lake, some attractive houses with lawns, and a couple of colleges. But many places in upstate New York have lakes and lawns and…

  • The Black Soldiers Who Built the Alaska Highway: A History of Four U.S. Army Regiments in the North, 1942-1943 McFarland 2013 228 pages 39 photos, notes, bibliography, index Softcover (7 x 10) Print ISBN: 978-0-7864-7117-1 Ebook ISBN: 978-1-4766-0039-0 John Virtue, Director International Media Center at Florida International University This is the first detailed account of…

  • Mixed races, mixed messages UWM News University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 2013-08-02 A recent Cheerios commercial featuring a white mother, black father and their daughter attracted a few nasty comments, followed by a huge outpouring of support, with 95 percent of viewers “liking” the commercial. The recent advertisement is just one reflection of America’s long history…

  • Her Mammy’s Daughter: Symbolic Matricide and Racial Constructions of Motherhood in Charles W. Chesnutt’s “Her Virginia Mammy” 49th Parallel: An Interdisciplinary Journal of North American Studies Issue 16: Autumn 2005 ISSN: 1753-5794 Laura Dawkins, Professor of English Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky The black mother in slavery and beyond has inspired a growing body of…

  • Blurring the “Color-Line”?: Reflections on Interracial and Multiracial America 49th Parallel: An Interdisciplinary Journal of North American Studies Issue 6: Special Issue – Race and Ethnicity (Fall 2000) ISSN: 1753-5794 Yasuhiro Katagiri, Ph.D., Associate Professor of American History and Government, Tokai University, Kanagawa, Japan “[N]o matter how we articulate this [case] [and] no matter which…

  • We biracials can claim a unique role in race dialogue The Roanoke Times Roanoke, Virginia 2013-07-28 Lucinda Roy, Alumni Distinguished Professor of English Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Following a keynote on diversity I delivered recently, a woman approached me and commented on the fact that I had referred to myself as biracial. She…