Category: Media Archive

  • Dominican Anti-Blackness bluestockings magazine 2016-05-02 Perla Montas We were socialized from an early age to name blackness. To taunt it, to call it names. My friends and I compared skin colors as we played the “who’s blacker?” game. “You’re blacker than me, Perla!” “Haitiana, you lose!” My parents groomed an identity that privileged straight hair…

  • Pete Souza: photographing the real Barack Obama The Guardian 2016-05-29 Jonathan Jones President Barack Obama fist-bumps custodian Lawrence Lipscomb in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. Photograph: Pete Souza/The White House Over two historic terms, official White House photographer Pete Souza has chronicled the most intimate, candid and comical moments of Barack Obama’s presidency It was…

  • Not-So-Solid South Triton University of California, San Diego Alumni 2016-05-05 Sherilyn Reus ’16 Historian Victoria Bynum, M.A. ’79, Ph.D. ’87, is a Civil War myth-buster. Folklore is deeply embedded in American culture—whether told at the dinner table, around the campfire or just before bedtime, tall tales and legends about the nation’s history have the power…

  • Understanding the Stressors and Types of Discrimination That Can Affect Multiracial Individuals: Things to Address and Avoid in Psychotherapy Practice Psychotherapy Bulletin Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy Volume 50, Issue 2 (2015) pages 56-60 Astrea Greig, PsyD As the multiracial population is vastly growing in the United States (Humes, Jones, & Ramirez, 2011), it…

  • Race, Genetics, Medicine and the Museum Museums & Social Issues: A Journal of Reflective Discourse Volume 11, Issue 1, 2016 Special Issue: Special Issue: Museum, Health & Medicine pages 53-62 DOI: 10.1080/15596893.2015.1131095 Monique Scott, Director of Museum Studies Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania Research Associate, Anthropology Department American Museum of Natural History, New York,…

  • ‘A Change of Heart’: Racial Politics, Scientific Metaphor and Coverage of 1968 Interracial Heart Transplants in the African American Press Social History of Medicine Published online: 2016-05-26 DOI: 10.1093/shm/hkw052 Maya Overby Koretzky Johns Hopkins Institute for the History of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland This paper explores the African American response to an interracial heart transplant in…

  • Inspired By — A Q&A With Actor-Writer-Producer Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni Goldstar Pulse 2016-05-27 Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni is creator and star of One Drop of Love, a solo show co-produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. She’s a spokesperson on the arts and racial identity, a board member of Mixed Roots Stories, and…

  • Casting Diverse Multigenerational Families ZAN Casting 195 Chrystie Street, #603B New York, New York 10002 2016-05-25 Leah Mara, Casting Associate (Telephone: 212.533.0502) ZAN Casting, a casting agency in New York is working on a digital short for Tylenol, and looking for Modern Diverse Families to share their stories. #HowWeFamily. Overall, we are looking for real…

  • New Orleans II: the Halloween Ghost Post The History Tourist 2015-10-31 Susan Kalasunas My first chance to encounter a ghost at the Bourbon Orleans Hotel in New Orleans came not long after check-in. “Can we see the ballroom?” I asked the receptionist. “Yes. We don’t have an event tonight, but the doors should be open.…

  • Staking Claim: Settler Colonialism and Racialization in Hawai’i University of Arizona Press 2016-05-28 232 pages 6.00 x 9.00 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8165-0251-6 Judy Rohrer, Director of the Institute for Citizenship and Social Responsibility (ICSR); Assistant Professor in Diversity and Community Studies University of Western Kentucky, Bowling Green, Kentucky Exploring how racialization is employed to further colonialism…