Category: United States

  • Conference Keynote: White Privilege and the Biopolitics of Race Understanding and Dismantling Privilege Volume 1, Number 1 (2010) 16 pages Online ISSN: 2152-1875 10th Annual White Privilege Conference Keynote Address Saturday, April 4, 2009 Memphis, Tennessee Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology; Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of…

  • Afro-Latino forum fosters dialogue on colorism, lived experiences The Tufts Daily The independent student newspaper of Tufts University 2011-12-01 Brionna Jimerson Gabrielle Hernandez Academic study and lived experience converged last night at the Afro−Latino Roundtable Forum, where an assembly of over 50 students, faculty and visiting speakers participated in a dialogue about the Afro−Latino experience…

  • “The Afro-Latin@ Reader” focuses attention on a large, vibrant, yet oddly invisible community in the United States: people of African descent from Latin America and the Caribbean.

  • Mix Up, Mix Up: Reviewing Bob Marley as the Militant Mulatto University of Miami Fall 2011 ENG 106 R4/S4 Rachel Panton, Lecturer of English In lieu of what would have been Bob Marley’s 66th birthday, we will explore the impact of Rastafari on the life and music of Marley, and on other contemporary Roots Reggae…

  • Marley class inspires UM students South Florida Times 2009-09-08 Juliana Accioly CORAL GABLES — On a recent weekday, students at the University of Miami watched a screen in front of a blackboard ignite with lively performances of music legend Bob Marley. Then, suddenly, those images were juxtaposed with graphic footage of segregation and violence. When…

  • HIS 3015: Intermarraige in the U.S.: Race, Sex and Power in a Multicultural Society Castleson State College, Vermont Fall 2011, Fall 2014 An overview of the historical evolution of intermarriage and sexual relations among the various racial and ethnic groups comprising the population of the United States, and the myriad ways in which “miscegenation” has…

  • “The Case Was Very Black against” Her: Pauline Hopkins and the Politics of Racial Ambiguity at the “Colored American Magazine” American Periodicals Volume 16, Number 1 (2006) pages 52-73 Sigrid Anderson Cordell, Librarian for History, American Literature, and American Culture University of Michigan When Pauline Hopkins’s short story. “Talma Gordon,” appeared in the October 1900…

  • Crossing the Color Line: Racial Passing in American Literature Wesleyan University AMST 322 / ENGL 319 Fall 2015 Amy Cynthia Tang, Assistant Professor of English Narratives of racial passing having long captivated readers and critics alike for the way in which they provocatively raise questions about the construction, reinforcement, and subversion of racial categories. This…

  • Agents of Change: Mixed-Race Households and the Dynamics of Neighborhood Segregation in the United States Annals of the Association of American Geographers Available online: 2011-12-08 DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2011.627057 Mark Ellis, Professor of Geography University of Washington Steven R. Holloway, Professor of Geography University of Georgia Richard Wright, Professor of Geography Dartmouth College Christopher S. Fowler Ph.D., Postdoctoral…

  • Genome Study Points to Adaptation in Early African-Americans The New York Times 2012-01-02 Nicholas Wade, Science Reporter Researchers scanning the genomes of African-Americans say they see evidence of natural selection as their ancestors adapted to the harsh conditions of their new environment in America. The scientists, led by Li Jin of the Chinese Academy of…