Category: Media Archive

  • As noted in the acknowledgements, this compilation of essays, poetry, prose, and personal narratives coalesced over the past two decades from readings for classes taught by the editors. The collection focuses on the intersection of the Black and Latin@ experiences, avoiding the exclusivity of either/or dualities and instead emphasizing the rich history and diversity found…

  • The Michael Brown Tragedy: A Christian of Color Perspective Jesus for Revolutionaries: A Blog About Race, Social Justice, and Christianity 2014-08-25 Robert Chao Romero, Associate Professor of Chicana/o Studies and Asian American Studies University of California, Los Angeles Today is the funeral of Michael Brown. Please join me in praying for comfort for his family.…

  • Belle: A Film That Defied Expectations The Root 2014-08-24 Julie Walker The film’s star and director talked to The Root about how an inspirational character helped shaped the movie, which is now out on DVD. Actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw, who stars in the movie Belle—now out on DVD—grew up in England watching Jane Austen films but…

  • Chronicling Mississippi’s ‘Church Mothers,’ and Getting to Know a Grandmother The New York Times 2014-08-29 Samuel G. Freedman, Professor of Journalism Columbia University, New York SUMNER, Miss. — Toward noon on a torrid Monday in the Mississippi Delta, Alysia Burton Steele drove down Highway 49, looking for the crossroads near the Old Antioch Baptist Church.…

  • A Mother’s Love: Stories of Struggle, Sacrifice, Love and Wisdom The Root 2014-05-11 Breanna Edwards Journalist Alysia Steele’s explores the “jewels in the Mississippi Delta” who held it down for their families through decades of strife and racial struggle. It’s Mother’s Day weekend, and many of us may feel the keen absence of the women…

  • The complicity cost of racial inclusion Al Jazeera America 2014-08-24 Julia Carrie Wong Oakland, California When Brook Soso, a new Asian-American character in the second season of “Orange Is the New Black,” arrives at the federal prison in Litchfield, New York, a fellow inmate named Lorna Morello provides her with a toothbrush and bar of…

  • I have this peculiar, twofold, scrambled-egg relationship with “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack,” the oft-quoted, seminal article written by Peggy McIntosh in the late 1980s.

  • How Racism Creeps Into Medicine The Atlantic 2014-08-29 Hamza Shaban Washington, D.C. The history of a medical instrument reveals the dubious science of racial difference. In 1864, the year before the Civil War ended, a massive study was launched to quantify the bodies of Union soldiers. One key finding in what would become a 613-page…

  • I’m black, my brother’s white … and he’s a cop who shot a black man on duty The Guardian 204-08-25 Zach Stafford, Writer Chicago, Illinois I never thought that my brother would be one of those police officers. He was supposed to be different because of me My white brother loved black people more than…

  • Direct-to-Consumer Racial Admixture Tests and Beliefs About Essential Racial Differences Social Psychology Quarterly Volume 77, Number 3 (September 2014) pages 296-318 DOI: 10.1177/0190272514529439 Jo C. Phelan, Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences Columbia University, New York, New York Bruce G. Link, Professor of Epidemiology and Sociomedical Sciences Columbia University, New York, New York; New York State…