Category: Media Archive

  • The Disappearing Mestizo: Configuring Difference in the Colonial New Kingdom of Granada by Joanne Rappaport (review) [Roland review] Journal of Latin American Geography Volume 13, Number 3, 2014 pages 253-255 DOI: 10.1353/lag.2014.0045 L. Kaifa Roland, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies University of Colorado, Boulder Joanne Rappaport, The Disappearing Mestizo: Configuring Difference in the Colonial New…

  • Adopting an alternative approach to the question of difference, Joanne Rappaport examines what it meant to be mestizo (of mixed parentage) in the early colonial era. She draws on lively vignettes culled from the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century archives of the New Kingdom of Granada (modern-day Colombia) to show that individuals classified as “mixed” were not…

  • Albert Chong: “The Photomosaics: Works on Paper, Wood, and Stone”, on view through November 1, 2014 Counterpath 613 22nd Street Denver, Colorado 80205 (303) 953-2692 2014-10-03 through 2014-11-01 “Angela” (2011) by Albert Chong Opening Friday, October 3, 2014, at 7 p.m., and on view through November 1, 2014, Counterpath is excited to host an exhibit…

  • I raised my sons to be racially neutral Salon 2014-10-18 Terry Baker Mulligan Two mixed-race boys, one lighter skinned than the other. Did I make a mistake telling them they were the same? One Saturday night in St. Louis about decade ago my younger son, then a teen, was driving around town with two white…

  • Ebola has exposed America’s fear, and Barack Obama’s vulnerability The Guardian 2014-10-19 Gary Younge The virus is a metaphor for all that conservatives loathe, and sees the president’s policies under renewed attack In a column ostensibly explaining why moderates struggle in the Republican party, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen last year wrote: “People with conventional…

  • Who Do You Think You Are? Reggie Yates [with Reggie Yates] Who Do You Think You Are? BBC One Series 11: Episode 8 of 10 Running Time: 00:59:09 First Aired: 2014-09-25 Presenter and DJ Reggie Yates grew up knowing very little about his father’s side of the family. Reggie sets out on the trail of…

  • Passing For White South Florida Sun-Sentinel Fort Lauderdale, Florida 2003-11-01 David Crary The Associated Press America is more diverse than ever and racial pride is strong, yet a new movie and book are highlighting a phenomenon that seems like a relic of the segregationist past — black people passing as white. The film, The Human…

  • The Whiteness Project will make you wince. Because white people can be rather awful The Guardian 2014-10-15 Steven W. Thrasher, Weekly Columnist You’ve never seen privilege quite like this: ‘You can’t even talk about fried chicken or Kool-Aid without wondering if someone’s going to get offended’ White and black Americans see race from radically different…

  • Does Diversity Breed Intolerance? BU Today Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 2014-09-25 Rich Barlow, Staff Writer Telephone: 617-358-3877 Some whites fear impending minority status, research says “Diversity” is said to be the sun of our civic solar system, shining bright harmony everywhere from society at large to university campuses. Katherine Levine Einstein is certainly an apostle…

  • I’m more than someone who’s of mixed race The Appleton Post-Crescent Appleton, Wisconsin 2014-10-08 Mia Sato, Post-Crescent Community Columnist Identity can be tough to sort out sometimes, but it doesn’t change some things about me My life is defined by numerical classifications. I’m 19 years old, a second-year college student, the eldest of four children.…