Category: Media Archive

  • The Free State of Jones, Movie Edition: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War University of North Carolina Press March 2016 352 pages 32 halftones, 10 maps, 4 tables appends., notes, bibl., index Paper ISBN 978-1-4696-2705-2 Victoria E. Bynum, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History Texas State University, San Marcos With a New Afterword by the Author Between late…

  • Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in the Workplace: Emerging Issues and Enduring Challenges Praeger March 2016 415 pages 6.125 x 9.25 Hardcover ISBN: 9978-1-4408-3369-4 eBook ISBN: 978-1-4408-3370-0 Edited by: Margaret Foegen Karsten, Professor of Human Resource Management; Internship Coordinator School of Business University of Wisconsin, Platteville For America to prosper, organizations need to address disparate treatment…

  • Finding my roots Eve’s Perspective: Sharing views one post at a time 2016-02-03 Ashley R. Alexander Born in 1872 in Maysville, Alabama. Jordan-Woodard is my 3rd great-grandmother. I couldn’t stop staring at the picture of this young lady. This young mulatto girl from the 19th century, who appears to look white and though there is…

  • The Racial Reality of Being Mixed Race 91.3 KBCS Radio Bellevue, Washington 2016-03-04 Sonya Green, News & Public Affairs Director What does it mean to mixed race? It’s a term recognized but rarely considered in conversations about race and racial identity. However, it should be since according to reports, multiracial individuals are the fastest growing…

  • Racialization, between power and knowledge: a postcolonial reading of public health as a discursive practice Journal of Critical Race Inquiry Volume 1, Number 2 (2011) Patrick Cloos University of Montréal This paper presents and discusses the interdisciplinary theoretical perspective that has been built from a doctoral research on contemporary notions of ̒ race ̓ in…

  • Beyoncé, Creoles, and Modern Blackness University of California Press Blog 2016-02-29 Tyina Steptoe, Assistant Professor of History University of Arizona Tyina Steptoe is the author of Houston Bound: Culture and Color in a Jim Crow City (2015). Beyoncé is a black woman. This isn’t exactly earth-shattering news; after all, the 34-year-old, Houston-born entertainer has one…

  • Hollywood’s Obsession With the Bottom Line Is Just Discrimination in Disguise Cosmopolitan 2016-02-25 Stephanie Allain Stephanie Allain has worked in Hollywood for more than 30 years, both in and out of the studio system. She’s produced award-winning films including Hustle & Flow, Peeples, Beyond the Lights, and Dear White People. Her next projects include Underground,…

  • Is race only about the color of your skin? In “The Latinos of Asia,” Anthony Christian Ocampo shows that what “color” you are depends largely on your social context.

  • Of the almost 11 million Africans who came to the Americas between 1500 and 1870, two-thirds came to Spanish America and Brazil. Over four centuries, Africans and their descendants—both free and enslaved—participated in the political, social, and cultural movements that indelibly shaped their countries’ colonial and post-independence pasts. Yet until very recently Afro-Latin Americans were…

  • 2016 Duke Global Brazil Conference Duke University Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall (FHI Garage) C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse Durham, North Carolina 2016-03-04, 09:00-17:30 EST (Local Time) Co-sponsored by FHI Global Brazil Lab and the Duke Brazil Initiative Invited guests include: Keynote: Dr. Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman (USF) – The Color of Love in Bahia Dr. John Collins…