Category: Media Archive

  • Nadine Ehlers examines the constructions of blackness and whiteness cultivated in the U.S. imaginary and asks, how do individuals become racial subjects?

  • Walking in Two Worlds: Mixed-Blood Indian Women Seeking Their Path Caxton Press 2006 264 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 0-87004-450-8 Nancy M. Peterson Nancy M. Peterson tells the stories of mixed-blood women who, steeped in the tradition of their Indian mothers but forced into the world of their white fathers, fought to find their…

  • Spit Back a Boy: Poems by Iain Haley Pollock The University of Georgia Press 2011-06-15 72 pages Trim size: 5.5 x 8.5 ISBN: 978-0-8203-3908-5 Iain Haley Pollock, English Teacher Springside-Chestnut Hill Academy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Winner of the 2010 The Cave Canem Poetry Prize Iain Haley Pollock’s poems cover the ground from a woman late to…

  • Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany HarperCollins 480 pages 2001 ISBN: 9780060959616 Hans J. Massaquoi (1926-2013) This is a story of the unexpected. In Destined to Witness, Hans Massaquoi has crafted a beautifully rendered memoir—an astonishing true tale of how he came of age as a black child in Nazi Germany. The son…

  • In Between: Memoir of an Integration Baby Skinner House Books (an imprint of the Unitarian Universalist Association) 2008-10-15 288 pages Product Code: 6989 ISBN-13: 978-1558965416; ISBN-10: 9781558965416 Mark D. Morrison-Reed Frank personal account of growing up black during the era of the civil rights movement. The author wrestles with racism, the death of Martin Luther…

  • Profit, Power, & Privilege: The Racial Politics of Ancestry   American Anthropological Association Meetings November 18, 2000 San Francisco, California Lee D. Baker, Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African and African American Studies Duke University In March of this year each of you received your decennial census, and you were confronted, once again, by those…

  • Science: Passers TIME Magazine 1946-08-12 Will U.S. whites eventually absorb the nation’s Negroes—as Italy, Mexico and Portugal have absorbed theirs? So thought James Bryce, and so, for more than a generation, have thought many sociologists. “It is now estimated,” wrote Author Herbert Asbury in Collier’s last week, “that there are at least between 5,000,000 and…

  • A “Mixed-Race” Nation Isn’t the Same as a Post-Race One ColorLines 2011-02-04 Dom Apollon The Web is still buzzing with chatter over a New York Times feature last weekend that explored how and why an increasing number of young people identify as “mixed-race.” The Census Bureau will release race-based data from its 2010 decennial count…

  • ‘Of Many Colors: Portraits of Multiracial Families’ traveling exhibit bridges diverse backgrounds Daily Bruin University of California, Los Angeles 2011-05-22 Lenika Cruz Starting this evening, UCLA will act as a home for 20 families, each with a story to tell about being multiracial Americans. While these families will not be physically present, their photographs and…

  • After Whiteness: Unmaking an American Majority New York University Press January 2004 336 pages, 8 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 9780814735428; Paper ISBN: 9780814735435 Mike Hill, Associate Professor of English State University of New York, Albany As each new census bears out, the rise of multiracialism in the United States will inevitably result in a white minority.…