Category: Audio

  • Kathleen López: Chinese Cubans: A Transnational History New Books in Latin American Studies: Discussions with Scholars of Latin America about Their New Books 2014-11-21 Alejandra Bronfman, Associate Professor of History University of British Columbia, Canada Successive waves of migration brought thousands of Chinese laborers to Cuba over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The coolie trade,…

  • Go Stand Upon The Rock with Samuel Michael Lemon, Ed.D. Research at the National Archives and Beyond BlogTalk Radio Thursday, 2014-11-20, 21:00 EST (Friday, 2014-11-21, 02:00Z) Bernice Bennett, Host Go Stand Upon the Rock (2014) is a deeply moving Civil War-era novel based on stories handed down by Sam Lemon’s grandmother about the lives of…

  • Sept. 15 to Oct. 15 is being celebrated as Hispanic Heritage Month, but the some say the word “Hispanic” should be retired, and would rather be referred to as Latino. Host Michel Martin speaks to four Latinos with varying opinions on the subject — syndicated columnist Ruben Navarrette, Afro-Latino Activist Roland Roebuck, “Ask a Mexican”…

  • A Post-Genomic Surprise: the molecular reinscription of race in science, law and medicine The London School of Economics and Political Science Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building London, United Kingdom 2014-11-06 Speaker: Troy Duster, Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy University of California, Berkeley Chair: Nigel Dodd, Professor of Sociology…

  • A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life – Allyson Hobbs Research at the National Archives and Beyond BlogTalk Radio Thursday, 2014-11-06, 21:00 EST (Friday, 2014-11-07, 02:00Z) Bernice Bennett, Host Allyson Hobbs is an assistant professor in the history department at Stanford. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and she received…

  • Allyson Hobbs – “A Chosen Exile” The Tavis Smiley Show 2014-10-31 Between the 18th and mid-20th centuries, countless fair-skinned African Americans abandoned families, friends and communities to forge new lives as white people. In her new book, “A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life”, Stanford University historian Allyson Hobbs explores the…

  • Season 2, Episode 6: Stanford Prof. Allyson Hobbs Talks about A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life The Mixed Experience 2014-10-20 Heidi Durrow, Host Allyson Hobbs, Assistant Professor of History Stanford University I was lucky enough to get an advance reading copy of A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing…

  • ‘A Chosen Exile’: Black People Passing In White America Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity All Things Considered National Public Radio 2014-10-07 Karen Grigsby Bates, Correspondent Culver City, California Dr. Albert Johnston passed in order to practice medicine. After living as leading citizens in Keene, N.H., the Johnstons revealed their true racial identity,…

  • Monica Pearson Show with Fanshen Cox Monica Pearson Show KISS 104FM, Atlanta Atlanta, Georgia 2014-09-14 Monica Pearson, Host Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, Award-Winning Actress, Producer and Educator “One Drop of Love” Listen Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni’s radio interview with Emmy Winner Monica Pearson on KISS 104 FM in Atlanta here (00:34:47). Download the interview here.

  • A mixed-race German confronts white supremacists face-to-face, including the Klan Public Radio International 2014-09-15 Leo Hornak, Producer Susie Blair, Producer Most people would probably run for shelter if confronted with death threats. But Mo Asumang had a different impulse: “I don’t want to hide — it’s not my nature.” Asumang — who is half-German and…