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  • Africanastudies: YouTube Channel

    Africanastudies: YouTube Channel First Documentary Posted: 2008-03-27 Marco Polo Hernández Cuevas, Asssociate Professor of Spanish North Carolina Central University Reconstructs the involuntary planetary dispersion of African populations, with their millenary cultural capitals, between the 15th and 19th centuries; and analyses the africanization of the places of arrival through their ethnic contributions. Reconstruye la dispersión planetaria…

  • Races: Passing

    Greying, blue-eyed Walter White, for 16 years executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, has a skin so light that he frequently has to explain that he is, in deed, a Negro. Last week, in the Saturday Review of Literature, Propagandist White talked openly about a subject many Negroes are…

  • The Perils of Compartmentalization

    The Perils of Compartmentalization Columbia Daily Spectator New York, New York Friday, 2008-09-26 Dennis Yang Teachers College When I arrived from California as an incoming graduate student at Teachers College, one of the first things I attempted to find was a large-scale supermarket—a task that proved to be more difficult than I had anticipated. Without…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Melissa Harris-Lacewell

    Faculty Spotlight: Melissa Harris-Lacewell CAAS News Center for African American Studies Princeton University Spring 2008 Newsletter Pages 6-7 Dara-Lyn Shrager Melissa Harris-Lacewell smiles broadly when asked about Senator Barack Obama’s run for the democratic nomination for President. She is clearly a fan of both the man and his campaign.  As a former Chicagoan, who lived…

  • Princeton Professor tweets about her views on mixed-race identity (Interview with Melissa Harris-Lacewell)

    Princeton Professor tweets about  her views on mixed-race identity (Interview with Melissa Harris-Lacewell) Mixed Child: The Pulse of the Mixed Community 2009-07-29 Jeff Eddings MSNBC contributor, Princeton University’s Associate Professor of Politics & African American Studies and author of Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought Melissa Harris-Lacewell had a frank  discussion…

  • On the Borders of Love and Power: Families and Kinship in the Intercultural American West

    On the Borders of Love and Power: Families and Kinship in the Intercultural American West Saturday, 2010-02-27, 08:15 – 16:30 CST (Local Time) Dallas Hall, McCord Auditorium, 3rd Floor Southern Methodist University 3225 University Blvd. Dallas, TX 75205 Announcing the 2009-10 Annual Public Symposium Co-sponsored by: The Center for the Southwest at the University of…

  • Mixed Race Hollywood (review) [Emily D. Edwards]

    Mixed Race Hollywood (review) [Emily D. Edwards] Journal of Film and Video Volume 61, Number 4 (Winter 2009) E-ISSN: 1934-6018 Print ISSN: 0742-4671 DOI: 10.1353/jfv.0.0051 Emily D. Edwards, Professor of Broadcasting and Cinema University of North Carolina, Greensboro Mixed Race Hollywood is a collection of essays that could not be timelier. As popular media, journalists,…

  • Oye Como Va! Hybridity and Identity in Latino Popular Music

    Oye Como Va! Hybridity and Identity in Latino Popular Music Temple University Press December 2009 238 pp 6×9 1 figure 5 halftones Paper EAN: 978-1-43990-090-1; ISBN: 1-4399-0090-6 Cloth EAN: 978-1-43990-089-5; ISBN: 1-4399-0089-2 Deborah Pacini Hernandez, Associate Professor of Anthropology and American Studies Tufts University Listen Up! When the New York-born Tito Puente composed “Oye Como…

  • Reloaded: Representing Asian Women Beyond Hollywood

    Reloaded: Representing Asian Women Beyond Hollywood Thursday, 2010-01-28, 16:00-17:30 PST (Local Time) University of California, Berkeley Center for Race & Gender 691 Barrows Hall Elaine H. Kim, Professor of Asian American Studies University of California, Berkeley Join Prof. Elaine Kim for a screening and discussion of the new 30 minute documentary film, Reloaded: Representing Asian…

  • What are you? For multiracial students, declaring an identity can be complicated

    What are you? For multiracial students, declaring an identity can be complicated Princeton Alumni Weekly Princeton University 2010-01-13 Issue Maya Rock (Class of 2002) In my first few weeks at Princeton, I became accustomed to fielding questions: What’s your background? Where are your parents from? And the strikingly ­existential: What are you?   What the questioners…