Category: Passing

  • 22nd Annual David Noble Lecture featuring Robin D.G. Kelley Best Buy Theater Northrop Auditorium 84 Church Street, SE Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 Tuesday, 2016-04-26, 19:00 CDT (Local Time) Robin D.G. Kelley, Distinguished Professor of History & Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in United States History University of California, Los Angeles The 22nd Annual David Noble Lecture…

  • Moral Judgments of Racial Passing Sponsored Research Lewis & Clark College Portland, Oregon December 2015 The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) has awarded Assistant Professor of Psychology Diana Leonard a grant from the Grants-in-Aid program. These funds will support Dr. Leonard’s new collaborative research project, “Moral Judgments of Racial Passing: Role…

  • Real Native Genius: How an Ex-Slave and a White Mormon Became Famous Indians University of North Carolina Press September 2015 270 pages 8 halftones, 1 map, notes, bibl., index 6.125 x 9.25 Paper ISBN: 978-1-4696-2443-3 Angela Pulley Hudson, Associate Professor of History Texas A&M University In the mid-1840s, Warner McCary, an ex-slave from Mississippi, claimed…

  • This is not a joke, but it starts like one: two men walk into an office. They have come to pitch an idea to a Hollywood mogul, an idea for a blockbuster movie. Sort of. Their idea is a docu-drama on George Washington Carver.

  • Film tells real-life story of Negroes “passing” as whites

  • Blackass: a race rewrite of Kafka’s Metamorphosis The Guardian 2016-04-13 Ainehi Edoro Ainehi Edoro reflects on Blackass, a novel that subjects Kafka’s classic to African literary conventions – and, in the process, gives an iconic European story ‘an extreme but necessary makeover’ Last year, I received a review copy of A Igoni Barrett’s Blackass from…

  • Rachel Dolezal 1 year later: ‘I don’t have any regrets about how I identify’ The Today Show 2016-04-12 Eun Kyung Kim Rachel Dolezal said she remains puzzled about why people have questioned her racial identity but is “ready to move on” from the controversy that made her a household name last spring. “I don’t have…

  • On Monday, March 21, Colgate students and faculty gathered in the Persson Auditorium to listen to Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University Allyson Hobbs, who gave a lecture about her book “A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life.”

  • Allyson Hobbs discusses A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life Harvard Book Store 1256 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 Monday, 2016-04-11, 19:00 EDT (Local Time) Harvard Book Store and Mass Humanities welcome Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University Allyson Hobbs discusses the paperback release of her book A Chosen Exile:…

  • Furo Wariboko, a young Nigerian, awakes the morning before a job interview to find that he’s been transformed into a white man. In this condition he plunges into the bustle of Lagos to make his fortune. With his red hair, green eyes, and pale skin, it seems he’s been completely changed. Well, almost. There is…