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  • Impeachment, culture wars and the politics of identity in Brazil

    Impeachment, culture wars and the politics of identity in Brazil The Conversation 2016-05-26 Marshall Eakin, Professor of History Vanderbilt University Brazil is in the midst of its worst political crisis since the 1960s and possibly its most severe economic downturn in the last 100 years. The economy will not – and cannot – improve until…

  • Negras in Brazil: Re-envisioning Black Women, Citizenship, and the Politics of Identity

    In “Negras in Brazil,” Kia Lilly Caldwell examines the life experiences of Afro-Brazilian women whose stories have until now been largely untold. This pathbreaking study analyzes the links between race and gender and broader processes of social, economic, and political exclusion.

  • In Love and Struggle: The Revolutionary Lives of James and Grace Lee Boggs

    James Boggs (1919-1993) and Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015) were two largely unsung but critically important figures in the black freedom struggle. James Boggs was the son of an Alabama sharecropper who came to Detroit during the Great Migration, becoming an automobile worker and a union leader. Grace Lee was a Chinese American scholar who studied…

  • Post-Racial or Most-Racial? Race and Politics in the Obama Era

    Post-Racial or Most-Racial? Race and Politics in the Obama Era University of Chicago Press April 2016 272 pages 3 halftones, 55 line drawings, 11 tables 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 9780226353012 Cloth ISBN: 9780226352961 E-book ISBN: 9780226353159 Michael Tesler, Assistant Professor of Political Science University of California, Irvine When Barack Obama won the presidency, many…

  • Pete Souza: photographing the real Barack Obama

    Pete Souza: photographing the real Barack Obama The Guardian 2016-05-29 Jonathan Jones President Barack Obama fist-bumps custodian Lawrence Lipscomb in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. Photograph: Pete Souza/The White House Over two historic terms, official White House photographer Pete Souza has chronicled the most intimate, candid and comical moments of Barack Obama’s presidency It was…

  • Ghana To Ban Skin Bleaching Products in August

    Ghana To Ban Skin Bleaching Products in August The Root 2016-05-29 Angela Bronner Helm, Adjunct Profesor of Journalism City College of New York The government of Ghana will ban all products containing hydroquinone this summer. Colorism, that which privileges lighter skin over darker, is an issue that not only affects African Americans, but pretty much…

  • Obama signs measure striking ‘oriental’ and ‘negro’ from federal law

    Obama signs measure striking ‘oriental’ and ‘negro’ from federal law The Hill 2016-05-20 Jordan Fabian, White House Correspondent President Obama has signed legislation striking outdated racial terms such as “Oriental” and “Negro” from federal laws. Obama signed the bill without fanfare on Friday along with six other pieces of legislation, the White House said… Read…

  • Sweden: People didn’t turn on refugees; system maxed out

    Sweden: People didn’t turn on refugees; system maxed out Cable News Network (CNN) Amanpour 2016-05-08 Christiane Amanpour speaks with Alice Bah Kuhnke, Swedish Minister for Culture and Democracy, about the crushing refugee crisis in Europe.

  • A Culture of Identity Choice: Assertions of Mixed Race, Transgender, and Other Identities and the Implications for Politics

    A Culture of Identity Choice: Assertions of Mixed Race, Transgender, and Other Identities and the Implications for Politics Stanford University Black Community Services Center The Brandon Room Wednesday, 2016-05-18, 12:00 PDT (Local Time) Natalie Masuoka, Associate Professor of Political Science Tufts University While Americans have always connected with different social identities, today we find the…

  • How psychologists used these doctored Obama photos to get white people to support conservative politics

    How psychologists used these doctored Obama photos to get white people to support conservative politics The Washington Post 2016-05-13 Max Ehrenfreund American politics always has surprises, but things have been especially unpredictable since President Obama took office. First, few observers were prepared for the tea party movement, which ousted several veteran GOP lawmakers, replaced them…