Category: Book/Video Reviews

  • Review of Fatal Invention, by Professor Dorothy Roberts Race and the Law: A Critical Examination of Science, Law and the Construction of Race 2011-12-07 Christian B. Sundquist, Associate Professor of Law Albany Law School Professor Dorothy Roberts has recently released a vitally important book on issues of race and genetics, entitled Fatal Invention: How Science,…

  • Family Portrait in Black and White [Tanasse Review] Educational Media Review Online 2012-09-24 Distributed by Interfilm Productions Inc., 304-1515 West Hastings St., Vancouver, BC V6G 3G6, Canada; 604-638-8920 Produced by Boris Ivanov Directed by Julia Ivanova DVD, color, 85 min. and 52 min. versions Sr. High-General Adult Adoption, Adolescence, Children, Child Development, Parenting, Area Studies,…

  • Review of Mazón, Patricia M.; Steingröver, Reinhild, eds., Not So Plain as Black and White: Afro-German Culture and History, 1890-2000 H-German, H-Net Reviews June 2009 Lynn Kutch, Assistant Professor of German Kutztown University of Pennsylvania Patricia M. Mazón, Reinhild Steingröver, eds. Not So Plain as Black and White: Afro-German Culture and History, 1890-2000. Rochester: University…

  • Ian Thomson: Jamaica was modern before Britain The Independent London, England 2012-10-04 Miguel Cullen To mark Black History Month the author of “Dead Yard: Tales of Modern Jamaica” talks to Miguel Cullen about the ways Jamaica is punching above its weight Jamaica is a country that exceeds its limitations. For example India’s GDP is 180…

  • Young Barry Wins The New York Review of Books 2012-08-16 Darryl Pinckney Barack Obama: The Story. By David Maraniss. Simon and Schuster, 641 pp. A white friend told me recently that he heard someone complain that he’d voted for the black guy last time around, did he have to do it again—as if Obama’s election…

  • ‘Thrall’ by Natasha Trethewey, the poet laureate of the United States The Washington Post 2012-09-13 Elizabeth Lund Thrall. By Natasha Trethewey. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 84 pp. Natasha Trethewey’s “Thrall” is a must-read collection that equals the power and quality of her third book, “Native Guard,” which won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize . “Thrall” also demonstrates…

  • The Third Musketeer The New York Times 2012-09-14   Leo Damrosch, Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature, Emeritus Harvard University The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal,and the Real Count of Monte Cristo. By Tom Reiss, 432 pp. Crown Publishers. Hardback ISBN: 978-0-307-38246-7. In the 1790s, the son of an aristocratic white father and a black slave…

  • A Lesson from Philadelphia’s Little Film Festival that Could Colorlines: News for Action 2012-08-10 Akiba Solomon, Columnist, Gender Matters For a four-day event that began as a small assortment of screenings, there were plenty of major moments at Philadelphia’s inaugural BlackStar Film Festival last week. Curated in less than a year by producer and filmmaker…

  • Can Science Explain the Concept of Race? PsycCRITIQUES Volume 57, Release 16 (2012-04-18) Article 4 5 pages Lundy Braun, Royce Family Professor in Teaching Excellence and Professor of Medical Science and Africana Studies Brown University Amed Logrono, Senior Human Biology Major Brown University A review of Race and the Genetic Revolution: Science, Myth, and Culture…

  • Afro-Latino/a Identities: Challenges, History, and Perspectives Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal Volume 9, Issue 1 (2012-04-20) Article 5 Sobeira Latorre, Assistant Professor of Spanish Southern Connecticut State University Miriam Jiménez Román and Juan Flores, editors, The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010), 584 pp. The Afro-Latin@…