Category: Media Archive

  • The Invisible Line Between Black and White Smithsonian.com 2011-02-18 T. A. Frail Vanderbilt professor Daniel Sharfstein discusses the history of the imprecise definition of race in America For much of their history, Americans dealt with racial differences by drawing a strict line between white people and black people. But Daniel J. Sharfstein, an associate professor…

  • A Chat with Kat: Marissa Hui, President of HapaSC Her Campus 2011-02-28 Katharine Goldman I remember clearly the first time someone used the term “hapa”: I was a freshman, waiting for Campus Cruiser in front of New/North, when a random guy asked me if I was hapa. Not knowing what it meant, I asked for…

  • Brooklyn Museum Acquires Eighteenth-Century Painting by Agostino Brunias Depicting Dominica Mixed Race Colonial Elite The Brooklyn Museum 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238-6052 T(718) 638-5000, F(718) 501-6134 January 2011 Agostino Brunias (Italian, ca. 1730-1796), Free Women of Color with their Children and Servants in a Landscape, ca. 1764-1796, Oil on canvas, 2010.59, Gift of Mrs.…

  • Author and scholar Adele Logan Alexander appears at the 2010 National Book Festival 2010 National Book Festival Library of Congress Washington, D.C. 2010-09-25 Running Time: 00:32:45 Adele Logan Alexander, Professor of History George Washington University Speaker Biography: Adele Logan Alexander’s research and teaching incorporate the black Atlantic world, African-American history, family history, gender issues and…

  • Shades of White The New York Times 2011-02-25 Raymond Arsenault, Visiting Scholar, Florida State University Study Center in London and John Hope Franklin Professor of Southern History, University of South Florida Daniel J. Sharfstein. The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White. New York: Penguin Press, 2011. 415 pp.…

  • Tracing lives of three ‘white’ families and their black forebears The Boston Globe 2011-02-20 Dan Cryer, Globe Correspondent Daniel J. Sharfstein. The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White. New York: Penguin Press, 2011. 415 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9781594202827. Randall Lee Gibson, an urbane, Yale-educated Confederate general, mocked black…

  • Doorway Arts Ensemble and Arts Alive Theatre present: “Tether” Doorway Arts Ensemble February 2011 Emily Morrison, Publicist Office: 703-892-0801 sex, race, religion, tether ball… twin sisters are coming of age [2011-02-18 through 2011-03-13] Bethesda, Maryland Doorway Arts Ensemble presents Tether, a World Premier play by Julie Taiwo Oni, co-produced with Arts Alive Theatre Artistic Director,…

  • Honoring Our Legacy: Past, Present and Future, RED/BLACK Connections Indian Voices October 2010 pages 8-9 Black Native American Association’s First Multi-Cultural National Pow Wow California State University Eastbay-Hayward September 18-19, 2010 On Friday, September 17, a workshop examined the Red/Black relationships and how to improve them. Noted participants on the panel included Black Seminole Lonnie…

  • Mothering Children of African Descent: Hopes, Fears and Strategies of White Birth Mothers The Journal of Pan African Studies Volume 2, Number 1 (November 2007) pages 62-76 Annie Stopford, Ph.D., Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and Adjunct Research Fellow University of Western Sydney, Sydney, Australia Introduction It is often acknowledged that African identities are “complex, contested and contingent,”…

  • Beyond The Whiteness of Whiteness: Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons Duke University Press 1996 198 pages Cloth: ISBN: 978-0-8223-1826-2 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-2044-9 Jane Lazarre “I am Black,” Jane Lazarre’s son tells her. “I have a Jewish mother, but I am not ‘biracial.’ That term is meaningless to me.” She understands, she says—but…