Category: Media Archive

  • Sociology of Race and Ethnicity will publish its first issue in January 2015! Editors: David L. Brunsma, Professor of Sociology Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University David G. Embrick, Associate Professor of Sociology Loyola University, Chicago The Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, the American Sociological Association (ASA), along with Sage, will open the submission…

  • Black Legacies: Race and the European Middle Ages University Press of Florida 2014-09-02 192 pages 6×9 Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-6007-1 Lynn T. Ramey, Associate Professor of French Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee Black Legacies looks at color-based prejudice in the medieval and modern texts in order to reveal key similarities. Bringing far-removed time periods into startling…

  • Advanced Topics in Asian American Studies; The Multiracial Experience in the US (AAST498Y) University of Maryland Fall 2014 Lawrence Davis Course will focus on multiracial (“mixed race”) identity and how the experiences of multiracial people contribute to our broader understanding of racial identity and formation. Course draws on literature and research produced by and about…

  • “Am I White” by Adrienne Dawes Salvage Vanguard Theater Presents the Word Premiere of Am I White by Adrienne Dawes Performances run October 1- 18, 2014 VIP Opening Night Performance: October 4, 2014 Salvage Vanguard Theater 2803 Manor Road Austin, Texas 78722 Telephone: (512) 474-SVT-6 (474-7886) Salvage Vanguard Theater announces the third and final MADE…

  • Between the eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, countless African Americans passed as white, leaving behind families and friends, roots and community. It was, as Allyson Hobbs writes, a chosen exile, a separation from one racial identity and the leap into another. This revelatory history of passing explores the possibilities and challenges that racial indeterminacy presented to…

  • Pudd’nhead Wilson Harvard University Press February 2015 (Originally Published in 1894) 190 pages 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches 7 line illustrations Paperback ISBN: 9780674059832 Mark Twain (1835-1910) Introduction by: Werner Sollors, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of African and African American Studies Harvard University When a murder takes place…

  • Contours of a People: Metis Family, Mobility, and History ed. by Nicole St-Onge, Carolyn Podruchny, and Brenda MacDougall (review) [Haggarty] The Canadian Historical Review Volume 95, Number 3, September 2014 pages 463-465 DOI: 10.1353/can.2014.0057 Liam Haggarty Mount Royal University, Calgary, Alberta, Canada St-Onge, Nicole, Carolyn Podruchny, and Brenda Macdougall (eds.), Maria Campbell (fore.), Contours of…

  • Meditation on President Obama’s Portrait Lens Blog: Photography, Video and Visual Journalism The New York Times 2014-07-25 Maurice Berger, Research Professor and Chief Curator Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture University of Maryland, Baltimore County Dawoud Bey’s photograph of the man who would soon be president was taken on a Sunday afternoon in early…

  • The Mixed-Race Marriage of Bill de Blasio and Chirlane McCray Georgetown Law Journal of Modern Critical Race Perspectives Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 2013-12-08 Harris Davidson On November 5, Bill de Blasio, New York City’s public advocate, was elected Mayor of New York City. De Blasio’s victory had been all but assured since he prevailed in…

  • A Family Rooted in Two Realms The New York Times 2014-09-23 Neil Genzlinger, Television Critic In “black-ish,” Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross lead a family wrestling with racial issues. From left, Marsai Martin, Marcus Scribner, Yara Shahidi and Miles Brown as their children. ADAM TAYLOR / ABC ‘black-ish,’ a New ABC Comedy, Taps Racial…