Category: Media Archive

  • Identity Politics of the Captivity Narrative after 1848 University of Nebraska Press 2006 160 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8032-4400-9 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8032-2067-6 Andrea Tinnemeyer, English Teacher The College Prepartory School, Oakland, California Andrea Tinnemeyer’s book examines the nineteenth-century captivity narrative as a dynamic, complex genre that provided an ample medium for cultural critique, a revision of…

  • Kaa-tipeyimishoyaahk – ‘We are those who own ourselves’: A Political History of Métis Self-Determination in the North-West, 1830-1870 University of Victoria, British Columbia 2014 394 pages Adam James Patrick Gaudry Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in the Department of Indigenous Governance This dissertation offers an…

  • On Race and Medicine The Scientist: Exploring Lie, Inspiring Innovation Volume 28, Issue 2 (Febuary 2014) Keith Norris, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, College of Medicine and Science David Geffen School of Medicine University of California, Los Angeles Until health care becomes truly personalized, race and ethnicity will continue to be important clues guiding medical treatments. Clinical…

  • Advancing Health Through A Racial Lens: The New Biopolitics of Race, Health, and Justice University of Maryland, College Park Stamp Student Union Banneker Room 2212 Thursday, 2014-02-20, 12:30-15:00 EST (Local Time) Moderated by: Dorothy Roberts J.D., Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology, and the inaugural Raymond Pace and…

  • Mixed Roots Stories~ What’s Yours? Mixed Race Radio Blog Talk Radio 2014-02-19, 17:00Z (12:00 EDT) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host Join us today as we meet the visionaries behind Mixed Roots Stories: Chandra Crudup, Mark Edwards and our very own, Fanshen Cox. Mixed Roots Stories (MXRS) is a new resource for teaching and learning about the Mixed…

  • Color Without Complex: A Conversation w/ Michaela Angela Davis & Dr. Yaba Blay New York University, Washington, D.C. Abramson Family Auditorium 1307 L Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20005 Tuesday, 2014-02-18, 18:30 EST (Local Time) Michaela Angela Davis Yaba Blay, Ph.D., Professor of Africana Studies and Women’s & Gender Studies Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania What exactly…

  • Continuous Frieze Bordering Red Fordham University Press April 2012 78 pages 8 1/2 x 8 1/2 Hardcover ISBN: 9780823243044 Paperback ISBN: 9780823243051 Michelle Naka Pierce, Associate Professor Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics Naropa University, Boulder, Colorado Continuous Frieze Bordering Red documents the migratory patterns of an Other, as she travels between countries, languages, seasons,…

  • A Breezy Chameleon, Blurring Social Borders The New York Times 2014-02-16 Jennifer Schuessler, Staff Editor When the literary scholar George Hutchinson was in the archives at Howard University one afternoon a decade ago, he thought he knew which story of a neglected African-American woman writer he was chasing. He was at work on a biography…

  • Who Gets to Be A POC?: Self-Identifying & Privilege Mixed Dreams: towards a radical multiracial/ethnic movement 2014-02-09 Nicole Nfonoyim de Hara This post is in response to a great question a friend asked about how the wonderful new book (1)ne Drop:Shifting the Lens on Race by Dr. Yaba Blay and Noelle Théard, featuring portraits of individuals…

  • Obama and the Oscars: Lights, Camera, Nationalism! A Symposium About The “Obama Effect” On Film Culture DePaul University Richardson Library Rosati Room 300 2350 North Kenmore Avenue Chicago, Illinois Friday, 2014-02-28, 16:00-19:00 CST (Local Time) Moderated by: Daniel McNeil, Ida B. Wells-Barnett Professor of African and Black Diaspora Studies DePaul University Speakers: George Elliott Clarke,…