Category: Media Archive

  • Times Fluid, Mobile and Ambivalent: Constructing Racial & Personal Identity in James McBride’s The Color of Water International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature Volume 4, Number 5 (2015) pages 63-71 DOI: 10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.4n.5p.63 Yuan-Chin Chang Department of Applied English Studies China University of Technology, Wunshan District, Taipei City 116, Taiwan James McBride’s memoir The…

  • Priming Race: Does the Mind Inhibit Categorization by Race at Encoding or Recall? Social Psychological and Personality Science Published online before print: 2015-08-27 DOI: 10.1177/1948550615602934 David Pietraszewski Center for Adaptive Rationality Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany Recent research shows that racial categorization can be reduced by contexts in which race does not…

  • Hispanic Or Latino? A Guide For The U.S. Presidential Campaign National Public Radio 2015-08-27 Lulu Garcia-Navarro, South America Correspondent My parents are Cuban and Panamanian. I grew up in Miami. I travel broadly in Latin America but reside in Brazil, which speaks Portuguese, not Spanish. So what am I? This may seem an irrelevant question…

  • Many Psychology Findings Not as Strong as Claimed, Study Says The New York Times 2015-08-27 Benedict Carey, Science Reporter The past several years have been bruising ones for the credibility of the social sciences. A star social psychologist was caught fabricating data, leading to more than 50 retracted papers. A top journal published a study…

  • Podcast #75: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Zadie Smith on Race, Writing, and Relationships The NYPL Podcast The New York Public Library New York, New York 2015-08-25 Tracy O’Neill, Social Media Curator There are few authors as smart, powerful, and visionary as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Zadie Smith. Adichie’s Americanah won the 2013 National Book Critics…

  • Writer Jesmyn Ward reflects on survival since Katrina PBS NewsHour 2015-08-24 Gwen Ifill, Co-Anchor & Managing Editor Jesmyn Ward, Associate Professor of English Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana After writer and Tulane University professor Jesmyn Ward survived Hurricane Katrina while staying at her grandmother’s house, she wrote “Salvage the Bones,” an award-winning novel about a…

  • Study investigates whether blind people characterize others by race EurekAlert! The Global Source for Science News American Association for the Advancement of Science 2015-08-25 American Sociological Association CHICAGO — Most people who meet a new acquaintance, or merely pass someone on the street, need only a glance to categorize that person as a particular race.…

  • The Race Draft Fails, Again Ebony 2015-08-26 Damon Young, Writer (left) Barack Obama, Mariah Carey and Shawn King Damon Young says a recent campaign questioning Shaun King’s ethnicity is the latest in a string of attempts to take good Blacks out the gene pool We should have seen it coming. All the signs were there.…

  • Moor, Mulata, Mulatta: Sentimentalism, Racialization, and Benevolent Imperialism in Mary Peabody Mann’s Juanita J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Volume 2, Number 2, Fall 2014 pages 301-329 DOI: 10.1353/jnc.2014.0021 Maria A. Windell, Assistant Professor of English University of Colorado, Boulder “Moor, Mulata, Mulatta” argues that Mary Peabody Mann’s Juanita (1887) imports U.S. sentimental abolitionism to…

  • Photographer Explores The Beautiful Diversity Of Redheads Of Color The Huffington Post 2015-08-25 Priscilla Frank, Arts Writer Michelle Marshall Red hair is usually the result of a mutation in a gene called MC1R, also known as a melanocortin 1 receptor. Normally, when activated by a certain hormone, MC1R sparks a series of signals that leads…