Category: Media Archive

  • Emmanuelle Saada. Empire’s Children: Race, Filiation, and Citizenship in the French Colonies The American Historical Review Volume 118, Issue 2 pages 468-470 DOI: 10.1093/ahr/118.2.468 Gary Wilder, Associate Professor of Anthropology The Graduate Center, City University of New York Emmanuelle Saada, Empire’s Children: Race, Filiation, and Citizenship in the French Colonies. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Chicago:…

  • The history of interracial sex: It’s much more than just rape or romance. The Los Angeles Times 2015-09-28 Carina Ray, Associate Professor of African and Afro- American Studies Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts Carina Ray is associate professor of African and Afro-American Studies at Brandeis University and the author of “Crossing the Color Line: Race, Sex,…

  • Between the World and Me: Empathy Is a Privilege The Atlantic 2015-09-28 John Paul Rollert, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science University of Chicago Booth School of Business Barack Obama and Ta-Nehisi Coates have made race and empathy central to their writing, but their conclusions point in radically different directions. Don’t despair. According to Ta-Nehisi…

  • nterracial sex mattered to the British colonial state in West Africa. In “Crossing the Color Line,” Carina E. Ray goes beyond this fact to reveal how Gold Coasters—their social practices, interests, and anxieties—shaped and defined these powerfully charged relations across racial lines.

  • Born that way? ‘Scientific’ racism is creeping back into our thinking. Here’s what to watch out for. The Washington Post 2015-09-28 W. Carson Byrd, Assistant Professor of Pan-African Studies University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky Matthew W. Hughey, Professor of Sociology University of Connecticut This month, Jennifer Cramblett lost her “wrongful birth” lawsuit, which centered on…

  • An Ohio town where races have mixed freely for more than 200 years The Washington Post 2015-09-26 Kevin Williams Connor Keiser, 22, left, shows his album of historic photos of Longtown to James Jett, 90 at Bethel Long Wesleyan Church. (Maddie McGarvey/For The Washington Post) Amid the corn and soybean fields of western Ohio lies…

  • The Fabulous World of Harumi Klossowska de Rola The New York Times Magazine 2015-09-22 Hilary Moss “Benoît, my partner, took this photo in 2013 in front of the Grand Chalet, which was a hotel until my father bought it. It is still loaded with thousands of books and even old skis from English clients. My…

  • Dr. Wanda Wyporska on Witchcraft Persecution WandaWyporskaWitchcraft 2014-09-07 Dr. Wanda Wyporska A show reel of Dr Wanda Wyporska talking about witchcraft for the BBC BAME expert days – 2014

  • Presents Race, Hip-Hop & The American Future: A Conversation with Adam Mansbach The John Hope Franklin Center Duke University 2204 Erwin Road Durham, North Carolina 27708-0402 Monday, 2015-09-28, 18:30 EDT (Local Time) Mark Anthony Neal, Professor of African & African American Studies The Center for Arts + Digital Culture + Entrepreneurship (CADCE) Presents Race, Hip-Hop…

  • What Makes Black Men Run From the Police? The Root 2015-08-27 Will Jawando Your Take: A good, hard look at the statistics will tell you why African Americans have reason to fear an encounter with police. t’s never much of a surprise when I hear it, but it stings all the same. Freddie Gray would…