Category: United States

  • The Reading Life: Authors Emily Clark, Bill Loehfelm And Dennis Formento The Reading Life WWNO 89.9FM University of New Orleans 2013-04-23 Susan Larson, Host Emily Clark, Clement Chambers Benenson Professor of American Colonial History; Associate Professor of History Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana Emily Clark This week on The Reading Life, Susan talks with Tulane…

  • ‘Yokohama Yankee’: a family’s lineage in both Japan and America The Seattle Times Books 2013-04-01 David Takami, Special to The Seattle Times ‘Yokohama Yankee: My Family’s Five Generations as Outsiders in Japan’ by Leslie Helm Chin Music Press, 360 pp. Leslie Helm’s remarkable family memoir begins at a point of personal distress. At a memorial…

  • Barack Obama’s historic presidency has re-inserted mixed race into the national conversation. While the troubled and pejorative history of racial amalgamation throughout U.S. history is a familiar story, “The United States of the United Races” reconsiders an understudied optimist tradition, one which has praised mixture as a means to create a new people, bring equality…

  • Principled Expediency: Eugenics, Naim v. Naim, and the Supreme Court The American Journal of Legal History Volume 42, Number 2 (April, 1998) pages 119-159 Gregory Michael Dorr, Visiting Assistant Professor in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought Amherst College In March 1956, the Supreme Court refused to hear Naim v. Naim, a suit contesting the constitutionality…

  • Alien Citizen: Review www.ReviewPlays.com ALIEN CITIZEN Asylum Lab 2013-05-13 Jose Ruiz Elizabeth Liang steps on the solo stage to tell the world what it’s like to be a TCK (Third Culture Kid).  These are people who, as children, traveled the globe intermittently because their parents were sent to diplomatic, business or military assignments and the…

  • ‘War Baby’ is something to see, if you can let go The Chicago Tribune 2013-05-08 Lori Waxman, Instructor of Art History, Theory and Criticism School of the Art Institute of Chicago It was the Hello Kitty tepee that did it for me. Some exhibitions can be so challenging that it takes a particularly unexpected artwork…

  • HIST 574–Modern U.S. History: Miscegenation, Mixed Race, and Interracial Relationships Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts Summer 2013 Ulli Ryder, Lecturer of History and Africana Studies This class will explore the conditions for and consequences of crossing racial boundaries in the United States. It will take a multidisciplinary approach, utilizing historical scholarship, literature, legal scholarship, and communication…

  • The future of Hispanic identity Reuters 2013-05-06 Reihan Salam, Policy Analyst In an interview with ABC News this past weekend, Bill Richardson, the former governor of New Mexico and a veteran of the Clinton White House, shared his thoughts on Sen. Ted Cruz, a Republican from Texas who has been gaining prominence as a staunch,…

  • Community Profiles – Melissa Nobles MIT School of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences Great Ideas Change the World 2013-04-21 Leda Zimmerman “All societies periodically have to do soul-searching,” says Melissa Nobles, the Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science. With research that illuminates historic episodes of racial and ethnic injustice, Nobles has developed a…

  • ‘Show Boat’ Steams On, Eternally American All Things Considered National Public Radio 2013-05-07 Nina Totenberg, Legal Affairs Correspondent It’s been more than eight decades since Show Boat — the seminal masterpiece of the American musical theater — premiered on a stage in Washington, D.C. Now the sprawling classic is back, in a lush production put…