Category: Media Archive

  • Bottles, Bubbles, and Blood: Jean Toomer and the Limits of Racial Epidermalism Modernism/modernity Volume 22, Number 2, April 2015 pages 279-302 DOI: 10.1353/mod.2015.0041 Catherine Keyser, Associate Professor of English Language and Literature University of South Carolina In an unpublished 1935 memoir, Jean Toomer reminisces about his job as a soda jerk in high school and…

  • The “Coming White Minority”: Brazilianization or South-Africanization of U.S.? Racism Review: scholarship and activism towards racial justice 2015-08-31 Joe Feagin, Ella C. McFadden and Distinguished Professor of Sociology Texas A&M University To understand the so-called “browning of America” and “coming white minority,” we should accent the larger societal context, the big-picture context including systemic racism.…

  • Marquess of Bath’s Longleat heir has not spoken to his mother since she claimed his marriage to his half-Nigerian wife would ruin ‘400 years of bloodline’ The Daily Mail 2015-09-06 Emma Glanfield Ceawlin Thynn has fallen out with his mother over wife Emma McQuiston 41-year-old claims his mother, Marchioness of Bath, questioned marriage She apparently…

  • Suit filed over mix-up at Downers Grove sperm bank is dismissed The Chicago Tribune 2015-09-03 Clifford Ward A judge Thursday dismissed a lawsuit filed by an Ohio woman against a west suburban sperm bank whose clerical error resulted in the birth of her mixed-race daughter. DuPage County Judge Ronald Sutter tossed the suit after lawyers…

  • An Interview with Celeste Ng, Author of Everything I Never Told You The Toast 2015-09-02 Nicole S. Chung, Managing Editor Celeste Ng is the author of the novel Everything I Never Told You, which was a New York Times bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book of 2014, Amazon’s #1 Best Book of 2014, and…

  • Are You Sensitive to Interracial Children’s Special Identity Needs? Young Children Volume 42, Number 2 (January 1987) pages 53-59 Francis Wardle Red Rocks Community College, Colorado Early childhood educators continually adjust to families they serve. Educators must provide for children not living with their natural parents, children from abusive families, children who rarely see their…

  • The Time of the Multiracial American Literary History Volume 27, Number 3, Fall 2015 pages 549-556 DOI: 10.1093/alh/ajv026 Habiba Ibrahim, Associate Professor of English University of Washington, Seattle Habiba Ibrahim is the author of  Troubling the Family: The Promise of Personhood and the Rise of Multiracialism (2012). Her current book project, Oceanic Lifespans, examines how…

  • Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama: The Price and Promise of Citizenship University of South Carolina Press June 2015 224 pages 6 x 9 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-61117-531-8 eBook ISBN: 978-1-61117-532-5 Robert E. Terrill, Associate Professor Department of Communication & Culture Indiana University, Bloomington An examination of President Obama’s oratory as a reflection of the…

  • In Search of the Black Mozart BBC Radio 4 2015-07-19 and 2015-07-26 Sarah Taylor, Producer Historian Steve Martin and Double Bassist Chi-chi Nwanoku Chi-chi Nwanoku has spent her career travelling and performing in concert halls the world over as the principal double bassist of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. More recently, she’s been…

  • Chineke! Europe’s first professional orchestra of black and minority ethnic musicians launches The Independent 2015-09-02 Jessica Duchen Its founder double-bassist Chi-chi Nwanoku talks to Jessica Duchen When the Chineke! Orchestra steps on to the Queen Elizabeth Hall platform on 13 September, the audience should notice something unusual. One of those uncomfortable truths about classical music…