Category: United States

  • The Elizabeth Warren Situation Is More Complicated Than Many Think Indian Country Today Media Network 2012-10-10 Laura Waterman Wittstock Seneca Nation A ton of ink has been spilled on the subject of the Elizabeth Warren run for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts. Most of the writing on the Indian side of opinion is whether or…

  • Local Filmmaker to Give Voice to Biracial Issues News Release Nashville, Tennessee 2012-10-10 Jefferey Martin 615-918-8688 James Southard, Director/Producer Native Nashville, [Tennessee]  filmmaker, James Southard aims to tackle the subject of what it means to be biracial in his forth-coming documentary, “Half-Caste.” The documentary comes from a mixture of personal experience with being biracial, a…

  • MASC’s Thomas Lopez Discusses Mixed Latina/o Identity Mixed Race Radio Wednesday, 2012-10-17, 16:00Z (12:00 EDT, 09:00 PDT, 17:00 BST) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host Thomas Lopez Thomas Lopez continues to amaze me. He has held various positions with Multiracial Americans of Southern California (MASC), Los Angeles, CA since 1995 and continues to organize numerous conferences, workshops…

  • Jazz, Race Collide With War In 1930s Europe Tell Me More National Public Radio 2012-03-26 Jacki Lyden, Host The novel Half Blood Blues explores an often overlooked slice of history: black jazz musicians in Germany on the eve of World War II. The book moves from 1992 to 1939, from Baltimore to Berlin to Paris.…

  • “The Ineffaceable Curse of Cain”: Race, Miscegenation, and the Victorian Staging of Irishness Victorian Literature and Culture Volume 29, Number 2 (September 2001) pages 383–396 Scott Boltwood, Associate Professor of English Emory & Henry College, Emory, Virginia THROUGHOUT THE NINETEENTH CENTURY both the English popular and scientific communities increasingly argued for a distinct racial difference…

  • The Miscegenation of Richard Mentor Johnson as an Issue in the National Election Campaign of 1835-1836 Civil War History Volume 39, Number 1, March 1993 pages 5-30 DOI: 10.1353/cwh.1993.0043 Thomas Brown White American men of the antebellum era abhorred few, if any, things more than the danger of an “amalgamation” of their race with African…

  • Barack X The New Yorker 2012-10-08 Jelani Cobb, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Institute of African American Studies University of Connecticut 1. It’s mid-March in Harlem and the streets are an improvised urban bazaar. Young men hawk umbrellas, vintage vinyl, and knit caps. The aromas of curry and fried plantains waft out…

  • American Dilemma: The Negro problem and Modern Democracy Harper and Brothers Publishing 1944 822 pages Gunnar Myrdal (1898-1987) With the Assistance of Richard Sterner and Arnold Rose This landmark effort to understand African-American people in the New World provides deep insight into the contradictions of American democracy as well as a study of a people…

  • Anomaly – Film Screening and Performance Bentley University Wilder Pavilion – Adamian Academic Center Waltham, Massachusetts Wednesday, 2012-10-24, 18:30 EDT (Local Time) Jessica Chen Drammeh, Director/Producer Sharon Smith, Co-Producer Anomaly is an award-winning documentary that provides a thought-provoking look at multiracial identity by combining personal narratives with the larger drama of mixed race in American…

  • The nation’s poet The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Personal Journeys 2012-10-06 Rosalind Bentley, Arts and Culture writer Personal Journeys is a new weekly feature for readers who like good writing and good story-telling The National Book Festival along the Mall in Washington is thronged with readers and authors who’ve come to revel in the written word on…