Category: Book/Video Reviews

  • The Too Black, Too White Presidency The New York Times 2011-09-02 Brent Staples Randall Kennedy, The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency, New York: Pantheon Books, 2011. 322 pp. The next time you see Barack Obama gliding into a White House press conference, take note of that jazzy walk. It…

  • Exploring Grays in a Black-and-White World Miller-McCune 2011-07-19 Julia M. Klein Two new books explore the intersection of race and identity in America by investigating families whose biracial members might—or might not—“pass” as white. Defining racial identity in the United States has always been a fraught enterprise, involving shifting intersections of law, custom, class, ancestry…

  • Books of The Times: One Nation, Still Divisible by Race The New York Times 2011-08-11 Dwight Garner Randall Kennedy, The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency, New York: Pantheon Books, 2011. 322 pp. August is not half over, and already it’s been a punishing month for Barack Obama: the debt…

  • The Clamorgans: One Family’s History of Race in America [Review: Eubanks] The Washington Independent Review of Books 2011-07-04 W. Ralph Eubanks, Director of Publishing at the Library of Congress Author of Ever Is a Long Time and The House at the End of the Road Julie Winch, The Clamorgans: One Family’s History of Race in…

  • Multiracial Teens Launch A ‘Latte Rebellion’ Tell Me More National Public Radio 2011-07-15 Michel Martin, Host “You’re half Chinese and half European, I’m half Indian, a quarter Mexican and a quarter Irish. We’re mixed up. We’re not really one or the other ethnically. We’re like human lattes.” So explains Asha, the main character in Sarah…

  • More than a ‘tragic mulatto’ Runnymede Bulletin Spring 2011, Issue 365 pages 26 Zaki Nahaboo Department of Politics & International Studies The Open University, UK Daniel R. McNeil. Sex and Race in the Black Atlantic: Mulatto Devils and Multiracial Messiahs. London: Routledge, 2009, 186 pp. Hardback ISBN 978-0-415-87226-3, Paperback ISBN 978-0-415-89391-6, eBook ISBN 978-0-203-85736-6. Daniel…

  • Book Review Essay – The Legacy of Jim Crow: The Enduring Taboo of Black-White Romance Texas Law Review Volume 84, Number 3 (February 2006) pages 739-766 Kevin R. Johnson, Dean and Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies Univesity of California, Davis Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond. By…

  • Blackness and Race Mixture: The Dynamics of Racial Identity in Colombia. – book reviews Journal of Social History Volume 28, Number 2 (Winter 1994) George Reid Andrews, Distinguished Professor of History University of Pittsburgh Peter Wade, Blackness and Race Mixture: The Dynamics of Racial Identity in Colombia, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993, 432 pages, Paperback…

  • Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada [Review] Quill and Quire – Canada’s Magazine of Book News and Reviews October 2001 Hugh Hodges, Associate Professor of English Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario Lawrence Hill, Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada, Harper Collins Canada, September 2001, 256 pages,…

  • The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family [Review] The Journal of American History Volume 98, Issue 1 (2011) Pages 154-155 DOI: 10.1093/jahist/jar004 Brenda E. Stevenson, Professor of History University of California, Los Angeles The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family. By Annette Gordon-Reed. (New York: Norton, 2008. 802 pp. Cloth, ISBN 978-0-393-06477-3. Paper, ISBN 978-0-393-33776-1.)…