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  • The fourth Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference celebrates the 50th anniversary of Loving v. Virginia

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The fourth Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference, “Explorations in Trans (gender, gressions, migrations, racial) Fifty Years After Loving v. Virginia,” will bring together academics, activists, and artists from across the US and abroad to explore the latest developments in critical mixed race studies. The Conference will be held at The University…

  • James Baldwin and the Meaning of Whiteness

    Raoul Peck’s “I Am Not Your Negro” is one of the finest documentaries I have ever seen—I would have stayed in the theater in New York to see the film again if the next showing had not been sold out. The newly released film powerfully illustrates, through James Baldwin’s prophetic work, that the insanity now…

  • “Obama, Post-Racialism and the New American Dilemma,” a lecture by Dr. Zebulon Vance Miletsky

    “Obama, Post-Racialism and the New American Dilemma,” a lecture by Dr. Zebulon Vance Miletsky Frank Melville, Jr. Memorial Library 2nd Floor, E-2340 (Special Collections Seminar Room) Stony Brook University Stony Brook, New York 11794 2017-02-13, 14:00-15:00 EST (Local Time) Zebulon Vance Miletsky, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Stony Brook University The election of Barack Obama…

  • Why A New Mixed Race Generation Will Not Solve Racism

    Why A New Mixed Race Generation Will Not Solve Racism BuzzFeed 2017-02-10 Lauren Michele Jackson, BuzzFeed Contributor Chicago, Illinois A promotional still from A United Kingdom. Fox Searchlight Pictures Love may trump hate, but it can’t cure white supremacy. On January 23, Chrissy Teigen — model, “domestic goddess,” and number one John Legend troll — decided…

  • Black Semitic Girl Reader At The Airport

    Black Semitic Girl Reader At The Airport Medium 2017-02-07, 21:00 PST (Local Time) Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Theoretical Astro|Physicist Where books become bombs Seattle International Airport—Just spent 20 minutes being physically searched at Seattle airport, body searched, and at one point being spoken to and surrounded by seven — yes seven — TSA agents while being informed my backpack had bomb…

  • Unmaking Race and Ethnicity: A Reader

    “(Un)Making Race and Ethnicity: A Reader,” edited by Michael O. Emerson, Jenifer L. Bratter, and Sergio Chávez, helps instructors and students connect with primary texts in ways that are informative and interesting, leading to engaging discussions and interactions.

  • The white supremacy of being asked where I’m from

    The white supremacy of being asked where I’m from PBS NewsHour 2017-01-27 What comes to mind when you hear the phrase “white supremacy”? For actor comedian Peter Kim, it’s facing the commonplace cultural assumption that white is the default race in America ANTONIO MORA: Finally tonight, a look at the subtle ways our society often…

  • Barack Obama’s original sin: America’s post-racial illusion

    Barack Obama’s original sin: America’s post-racial illusion The Guardian 2017-01-13 Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Assistant Professor of African American Studies Princeton University Illustration by Joe Magee Barack Obama’s refusal to use his position as president to intervene on behalf of African Americans is a stain on his record many activists will never forget In the first hours…

  • Pity the sad legacy of Barack Obama

    Pity the sad legacy of Barack Obama The Guardian 2017-01-09 Cornel West, Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice Union Theological Seminary, New York, New York Our hope and change candidate fell short time and time again. Obama cheerleaders who refused to make him accountable bear some responsibility Eight years ago the world was on the…

  • Will Racism End When Old Bigots Die?

    Will Racism End When Old Bigots Die? Code Switch: Race And Identity, Remixed National Public Radio 2017-01-14 Leah Donnella Shelly Fields is a 46-year-old white woman living in Richton Park, a racially diverse Chicago suburb. She says she’s raised her four daughters, who are biracial, to see people of all races as equal, just as…