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  • Where Hip Hop Fits in Cuba’s Anti-Racist Curriculum

    The country’s education leaders confront deep-seated discrimination in the classroom through rap.

  • Obama, America, and the Legacy of James Alan McPherson

    Obama, America, and the Legacy of James Alan McPherson Literary Hub 2016-08-01 Whitney Terrell Whitney Terrell Remembers His Friend and Mentor The title story of James Alan McPherson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning short story collection Elbow Room opens with an italicized passage: Narrator is unmanageable. Demonstrates a disregard for form bordering on the paranoid . . .…

  • Favourite for Ukip leader Steven Woolfe misses application deadline

    Favourite for Ukip leader Steven Woolfe misses application deadline The Guardian 2016-08-01 Rowena Mason, Deputy political editor MEP and migration spokesman could be out of leadership race but insists he is still a candidate Steven Woolfe, the favourite to succeed Nigel Farage as Ukip leader, could be out of the race after he missed the…

  • Obama Returns to His Biography

    Obama Returns to His Biography The Atlantic 2016-07-27 Yoni Appelbaum, Senior Editor/Washington Bureau Chief Mark Kauzlarich / Reuters Twelve years after introducing himself to the American public as the son of an immigrant, the president recast himself as a bearer of Scotch-Irish values. Twelve years ago, Barack Obama introduced himself to America as just a…

  • President Obama and the Long March

    President Obama and the Long March The New York Times 2016-07-28 The Editorial Board President Obama’s speech before the Democratic convention in Philadelphia Wednesday night was, of course, an occasion to celebrate the candidacy of Hillary Clinton, his former secretary of state and the first woman to receive the presidential nomination of a major political…

  • The Race Whisperer: Barack Obama and the Political Uses of Race

    The Race Whisperer: Barack Obama and the Political Uses of Race New York University Press 2016-07-26 224 pages Cloth ISBN: 9781479853717 Paper ISBN: 9781479819256 Melanye T. Price, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Political Science Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey—New Brunswick Nearly a week after George Zimmerman was found not guilty of killing…

  • Banished from the tribe

    Banished from the tribe Inter-County Leader/Washburn County Register Cooperative-Owned Newspapers Serving Northwest Wisconsin 2016-07-25 Ed Emerson Gary King WEBSTER – Tony Ammann is the grandson of former longtime St. Croix Chippewa chief and traditional “midewiwin” spiritual leader Archie Mosay. His mother, Archie’s daughter, has Department of Interior papers certifying her blood quantum requirement to be…

  • Obama Faces Growing Expectations on Race and Policing

    Obama Faces Growing Expectations on Race and Policing The New York Times 2016-07-21 Julie Hirschfeld Davis WASHINGTON — At the White House last week, DeRay Mckesson, a Black Lives Matter activist who was arrested only days before in Baton Rouge, La., for protesting police violence against African-Americans, had a lengthy list of demands for President…

  • An Interview with Danzy Senna

    More than a coming of age story, Danzy Senna’s first novel, “Caucasia” (Riverhead Books, 1998) addresses themes of coming into consciousness within the U.S. ethnoracial landscape. Clearly in dialogue with Nella Larsen’s “Passing” as well as Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man,” “Caucasia” is a first person narrative where anything that happens to the protagonist, Birdie Lee,…

  • Barack Obama and the Rhetoric of Hope by Mark S. Ferrara (review) [Williamson]

    Barack Obama and the Rhetoric of Hope by Mark S. Ferrara (review) [Williamson] Rhetoric & Public Affairs Vollume 18, Number 4, Winter 2015 pages 748-750 Jason G. Williamson Department of Communication Studies University of Georgia Barack Obama and the Rhetoric of Hope. By Mark S. Ferrara. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, 2013; pp. 204. $45.00…