Category: Book/Video Reviews

  • The Myth of Race: The Troubling and Persistence of an Unscientific Idea by Robert Wald Sussman (review) Journal of Social History Volume 49, Number 3, Spring 2016 pages 740-741 Robert J. Cottrol, Harold Paul Green Research Professor of Law and Professor of History and Sociology George Washington University The Myth of Race: The Troubling and…

  • Great Lakes Creoles A French-Indian Community on the Northern Borderlands, Prairie du Chien, 1750-1860 by Lucy Eldersveld Murphy (review) Ohio Valley History Volume 16, Number 1, Spring 2016 pages 81-83 Margo Lambert, Assistant Professor of History Blue Ash College, University of Cinicinnati Lucy Eldersveld Murphy. Great Lakes Creoles: A French-Indian Community on the Northern Borderlands,…

  • Filling in Gaps in the Historical Record: Accuracy, Authenticity, and Closure in Ann Rinaldi’s Wolf by the Ears Children’s Literature Volume 44, 2016 pages 21-60 DOI: 10.1353/chl.2016.0018 Brian Dillon, Professor of English Montana State University-Billings Ann Rinaldi, Wolf by the Ears, (New York: Scholastic, 1993). This novel, narrated by Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings’ daughter,…

  • Book Review: Mixed-race youth and schooling: the fifth minority Ethnic and Racial Studies Published online: 2016-06-01 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2016.1190852 Remi Joseph-Salisbury University of Leeds Mixed-race youth and schooling: the fifth minority, by Sandra Winn Tutwiler, Abingdon, Routledge, 2016, xv + 241 pp., £29.95 (paperback), ISBN-13 978-1138021938 Mixed-race youth and schooling offers a welcome contribution to a sparse…

  • 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.

  • LA poets document the city in ‘Coiled Serpent’ anthology Los Angeles Daily News 2016-03-25 Richard Guzman, Arts and Entertainment Reporter Long Beach Press Telegram As students take part in a guitar workshop inside his Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural & Bookstore in Sylmar, Los Angeles Poet Laureate Luis Rodriguez grabs a copy of the latest book…

  • Where Are You Really From? Culture Northern Ireland 2010-04-10 Joanne Savage Race, republicanism and a mothers love in Tim Brannigan’s memoir Peggy Brannigan met Michael Ekue at a dance in Belfast in 1965. She was from Beechmount; he was a medic from Ghana. Their eyes met, they danced and sparks flew. She was gorgeous and…

  • Recovering the Afro-Metropolis Before Windrush Christian John Høgsbjerg University of Leeds Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal Volume 13, Issue 1 (The Caribbean Radical Tradition) May 2016 Marc Matera, Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century (Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2015), 410 pp. In Black London, Marc Matera’s wide-ranging historical…

  • Uncovering a Tale of Rocket Science, Race and the ’60s The New York Times 2016-05-22 Cara Buckley, Culture Reporter Janelle Monáe, left, Taraji P. Henson and Octavia Spencer in “Hidden Figures,” which is slated for release in January. Credit Hopper Stone/20th Century Fox ATLANTA — Taraji P. Henson hates math, and Octavia Spencer has a…

  • “Race” and Science The Common Reader: A Journal of The Essay 2016-04-19 Garland Allen, Professor Emeritus of Biology Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri A new book traces the complicated legacy of race’s biological conceptions. Michael Yudell; J. Craig Venter (fore.), Race Unmasked: Biology and Race in the Twentieth Century (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014)…