Category: Europe

  • Othello’s Daughter The New Yorker 2013-07-29 Alex Ross, Music Critic Aldridge, circa 1865, and his daughter Luranah, a singer, in an undated image. Credit Photographs by Billy Rose Theatre Division / The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts; Mccormick Library of Special Collections / Northwestern University Library The rich legacy of Ira Aldridge,…

  • Amanda Aldridge, Teacher and Composer: A Life in Music Journal of Singing January 2010 ISSN: 10867732 Joyce Andrews, Adjunct Instructor of Music Ripon College, Ripon, Wisconsin Aldridge was a remarkable person who devoted her lifetime to music, enriching the musical culture of Great Britain through her multi-talents as composer (published under the nom de plume…

  • Cedric Dover, the Anglo-Indian Who Sought Worldwide Solidarity With Racial Minorities The Wire 2015-08-10 Elisabeth Engel, Research Fellow German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. Slate, Nico, The Prism of Race: W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, and the Colored World of Cedric Dover (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) The scholarship that takes up W.E.B. Du…

  • Half white, half Asian Dubliner Dean Van Nguyen speaks to other mixed-race Irish people in their twenties and thirties about growing up in a primarily white culture, being subjected to racist taunts, and coming to terms with their own sense of self.

  • Notable Black and Mixed Race men in Renaissance Europe Bino & Fino: Embracing My Child’s Black African Identity 2015-07-23 Maria Tumolo We are thrilled to bring you our very first guest post from children’s author Maria Tumolo. She is also writes a blog called Tiger Tales which explores parenting as an expat mixed heritage family.…

  • How to Unlearn History | Ella Achola | TEDxCoventGardenWomen TEDx Talks 2015-07-21 Ella Achola, Founder Ain’t I A Woman Collective From awkward school encounters to groan-inducingly offensive questions, Ella finds herself at the intersections of identity, and shares her big idea for bringing ourselves into the stories we tell. Ella Achola is a writer and…

  • Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation urged to confront the racism endured by children taken into care and abused because they had a non-white parent

  • Having come through some difficult times as a teenager Kira now happily identifies with both of her cultural backgrounds. Annina says that when you are ‘mixed-race’ people make assumptions about your identity and consider it to be “up for debate”, but she is clear that “whiteness is not something I’m a part of.”

  • “In Lines of Descent,” Kwame Anthony Appiah traces the twin lineages of Du Bois’ American experience and German apprenticeship, showing how they shaped the great African-American scholar’s ideas of race and social identity.

  • The Trouble With Race Foreign Affairs March/April 2015 Gideon Rose, Editor Everybody knows that racial tensions have been at the center of American political debate in recent months, but the story of racial and ethnic division is actually a global one, with a long and tortured history. For the lead package in the March/April issue,…