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  • How should a dancer look? Ask Misty Copeland and Stella Abrera

    How should a dancer look? Ask Misty Copeland and Stella Abrera The Melissa Harris-Perry Show MSNBC 2015-07-18 Melissa Harris-Perry, Host Dancers Misty Copeland and Stella Abrera discuss their pioneering work as, respectively, the first African American and Filipino American principal ballerinas at the American Ballet Theater. Watch the video (00:07:46) here.

  • Mr. President, on behalf of an ungrateful nation, thank you

    Mr. President, on behalf of an ungrateful nation, thank you WFTS: ABC Action News Tampa Bay, Florida 2015-07-16 Dick Meyer, Chief Washington Correspondent Scripps News Some points to ponder about Obama’s record WASHINGTON, D.C. – I’ve never written a column like this. Readers rarely believe it, but I am not on any political team. Generosity…

  • The Adoption Papers

    The Adoption Papers Bloodaxe Books 1991 64 pages 21.6 x 13.9 x 0.5 cm Paperback ISBN: 978-1852241568 Jackie Kay, Professor of Creative Writing Newcastle University

  • The “Telling Part”: Reimagining Racial Recognition in Jackie Kay’s Adoptee Search Narratives

    The “Telling Part”: Reimagining Racial Recognition in Jackie Kay’s Adoptee Search Narratives Contemporary Women’s Writing Volume 9, Issue 2 (July 2015) pages 277-296 DOI: 10.1093/cww/vpu041 Pamela Fox, Professor of English Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. This article examines Jackie Kay’s earliest and renowned autobiographical poetic text, The Adoption Papers (1991), in relation to her latest narrative…

  • Mixed Race Irish: ‘We were the dust to be swept away’

    Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation urged to confront the racism endured by children taken into care and abused because they had a non-white parent

  • My Name is Cool: Stories from a Cuban-Irish-American Storyteller

    Born in Boston to a Cuban father and an Irish-American mother, Antonio Sacre is one of the few leprecanos on the national speaking circuit.

  • The black president some worried about has arrived

    The black president some worried about has arrived The Washington Post 2015-07-15 Janell Ross, Reporter There’s this thing people sometimes say down South. So-and-so is “acting brand new.” Sometimes that’s a reference to people behaving like they don’t know old friends and family — that they have evolved past their old crowd. Sometimes that’s Southern-speak…

  • In The Writer’s Room, One Woman Quietly Makes Late Night History

    In The Writer’s Room, One Woman Quietly Makes Late Night History Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2015-07-12 Eric Deggans, TV Critic How do you write jokes for a TV comedy about race and culture when there are riots over how police treat black suspects, and a gunman just shot…

  • The sweetness of forbidden fruit: Interracial daters are more attractive than intraracial daters

    The sweetness of forbidden fruit: Interracial daters are more attractive than intraracial daters Journal of Social and Personal Relationships Volume 32, Number 5 (August 2015) pages 650-666 DOI: 10.1177/0265407514541074 Karen Wu Department of Psychology University of California, Irvine Chuansheng Chen, Chancellor’s Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior and Education University of California, Irvine Ellen Greenberger,…

  • Black Dancers, White Ballets

    Black Dancers, White Ballets The New York Times 2015-07-15 Laurie A. Woodard New York University MISTY COPELAND’S elevation to principal dancer with American Ballet Theater is a tremendous accomplishment for her as a ballet dancer and as an African-American ballerina. Neither her talent nor her achievement should be underestimated. But even as she reaches the…