Category: Book/Video Reviews

  • Britain’s black history has been shamefully whitewashed The Spectator 2017-01-14 Hakim Adi, Professor of the History of Africa and the African Diaspora University of Chichester, Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom Author David Olusoga (Photo: Getty) I have been researching and writing about black British history for over 30 years but never before have I been…

  • The World of Zadie Smith: Mixed-Race People and Polychromatic Dreams The Wire 2017-01-11 Radhika Oberoi Swing Time like its predecessors is intensely curious about race, but it is also curious about so much more than race, such as Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Ali Baba Goes to Town and Michael Jackson. Cool Britannia, slickly marketed by Tony Blair’s…

  • In Roxane Gay’s Difficult Women, you’re either difficult or you’re dead Vox 2017-01-03 Constance Grady, Culture Writer When Roxane Gay picks up a label, she’ll play with it, rip it apart a little, break it down, and finally embrace it. She did it in 2014 with her essay collection, Bad Feminist, which explored what it…

  • The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race [Review] Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Volume 3, Issue 1, (January 2017) pages 145-146 DOI: 10.1177/2332649216676788 Emily Walton, Assistant Professor of Sociology Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire Anthony Christian Ocampo, The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race. Stanford,…

  • National Colors: Racial Classification and the State in Latin America [Review] Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Volume 3, Issue 1, (January 2017) pages 141-145 DOI: 10.1177/2332649216676789 Mark Q. Sawyer, Associate Professor of Political Science University of California, Los Angeles Mara Loveman, National Colors: Racial Classification and the State in Latin America. Oxford, UK: Oxford University…

  • Hannah Lowe’s latest collection of poetry “Chan” (Bloodaxe, 2016) revisits the characters and stories from her first collection, “Chick” (Bloodaxe, 2013), which won the Michaels Murphy memorial Award for Best First Collection, and was short-listed for the Forward, Aldeburgh and Seamus Heaney Best First Collection Prizes.

  • Elizabeth Anionwu’s Memoir: Mixed Blessings From A Cambridge Union Exceeds All Superlatives The Huffington Post 2016-12-28 Claudia Tomlinson, Author, campaigner, entrepreneur London, England Emeritus Professor Elizabeth Anionwu: Photograph by Barney Newman Elizabeth Anionwu is a diminutive woman of colossal talent in everything she has turned her hand to, and to top off a high achieving…

  • When the Serendipitously Named Lovings Fell in Love, Their World Fell Apart Smithsonian.com 2016-12-23 Christopher Wilson, Director of the African American History Program and Experience and Program Design Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C. The new film captures the quiet essence of the couples’ powerful story, says Smithsonian scholar Christopher Wilson “My theory…

  • ‘Barry’ or How Barack Obama Learned to Stop Worrying and Love His Blackness The Daily Beast 2016-12-20 Marlow Stern, Senior Entertainment Editor Netflix The new Netflix film ‘Barry’ explores young Obama’s days at Columbia University, torn between the world of his rich white girlfriend and the African-American community. There’s a scene in Dreams From My…

  • Patricia Park talks about her Korean American spin on Jane Eyre The Los Angeles Times 2015-05-12 Steph Cha Patricia Park, author of “Re Jane” (Allana Taranto/Viking) What if Jane Eyre was a Korean American girl and Rochester was a English professor? Patricia Park on ‘Re Jane‘ Patricia Park’s debut novel, “Re Jane” (Pamela Dorman/Viking: 340…