Category: Media Archive

  • President Obama and the Long March The New York Times 2016-07-28 The Editorial Board President Obama’s speech before the Democratic convention in Philadelphia Wednesday night was, of course, an occasion to celebrate the candidacy of Hillary Clinton, his former secretary of state and the first woman to receive the presidential nomination of a major political…

  • Hundreds of Irish marched in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement in Dublin, Cork, and Galway, following a week of violence in the United States.

  • Free State of Jones Capsizes Lost Cause Myths Process: A Blog For American History 2016-07-12 Matthew E. Stanley, Assistant Professor of History Albany State University, Albany, Georgia Reconstruction is perhaps the least understood period in American history, a distinction that has been both perpetuated by and reflected in popular culture since the late nineteenth century.…

  • Zawe Ashton interview: The actress is moving on from Fresh Meat with a starring role in Channel 4’s comedy drama Not Safe for Work The Independent 2015-06-19 Gillian Orr Multi-talented: Ashton likes to do her own thing Immo Klink Acting, directing, writing: Zawe Ashton is a woman on the move. Gillian Orr tries to keep…

  • A Letter From Young Asian-Americans To Their Families About Black Lives Matter Code Switch: Race and Identity, Remixed National Public Radio 2016-07-27 Shereen Marisol Meraji, Reporter Kat Chow, Digital Journalist In the Facebook Live video streamed earlier this month by Diamond Reynolds after her fiance, Philando Castile, was fatally shot by a police officer during…

  • Machado de Assis and Female Characterization: The Novels Bucknell University Press 2015 252 pages ISBN 9781611486209 Earl E. Fitz, Professor of Portuguese, Spanish, and Comparative Literature Vanderbilt University, Vanderbilt, Tennessee This book examines the nature and function of the main female characters in the nine novels of Machado de Assis. The basic argument is that…

  • A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism Duke University Press 2001 232 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-2210-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-2239-9 Roberto Schwarz Translated by: John Gledson, Emeritus Professor of Brazilian Studies University of Liverpool A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism is a translation (from the original Portuguese) of Roberto Schwarz’s renowned study of the work…

  • Daniel, G. Reginald. Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the Brazilian Novelist. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State UP, 2012. Print. [McNee Review] ellipsis (now Journal of Lusophone Studies) Volume 13 (2015) pages 255-257 Malcolm K. McNee, Associate Professor of Spanish & Portuguese Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts G. Reginald Daniel, Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the…

  • Episode 21 w/ Sheila Ruiz, Head of Programmes Blacticulate 2016-03-07 Ade Bamgbala, Host Sheila Ruiz, Head of Programmes, Partnerships and Operations Royal African Society, London, England Sheila Ruiz This was another great episode where Sheila and Mangaliso (her newborn) give great advice on how to create a successful event, the challenges, internship platforms out there…

  • The Deceptive Realism of Machado de Assis. A Dissenting Interpretation of Dom Casmurro Francis Cairns Publications 1984 215 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-905205-19-9 John Gledson, Emeritus Professor of Brazilian Studies University of Liverpool The Brazilian Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1839, is regarded as the greatest Latin-American novelist of the…