Category: Media Archive

  • Blood: The Stuff of Life [Lecture] The CBC Massey Lectures CBC Radio-Canada 2013-11-04, 19:00Z (14:00 EST) Blood is a bold and enduring determinant of identity, race, gender, citizenship and belonging. But should it be? In this visual narrative based on excerpts from the 2013 Massey Lectures, Lawrence Hill explores the scientific and social history of…

  • Mirror, Mirror – Who Is that Woman on TV? Inter Press Service News Agency 2013-10-21 Fabiana Frayssinet RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 21 2013 (IPS) – Carla Vilas Boas is of mixed-race descent – African, European and indigenous – like a majority of the population of Brazil. But she spends hours straightening her hair, trying to…

  • Written records agree with Melungeon DNA results Jack Goins’ Melungeon and Appalachian Research October 2013 William E. Cole University of Tennessee Joe Stevenson Looney University of Tennessee Written records agree with Core Melungeon DNA Results. The Core Melungeon DNA Project was formed with Family Tree DNA on July 25, 2005. The goal of the project…

  • Blood: The Stuff of Life House of Anansi Press 2013-10-26 272 pages 5 x 8 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-77089-322-1 eBook ISBN: 978-1-77089-324-5 Lawrence Hill In this year’s CBC Massey Lectures, bestselling author Lawrence Hill offers a provocative examination of the scientific and social history of blood, and on the ways that it unites and divides us…

  • Racial Democracy: The Sociological History of a Concept Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 2013-02-15 Antonio Sergio Guimarães, Professor of Sociology Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil I will examine the coining, the uses, and meanings of the expression “racial democracy” from the 1930’s onwards including…

  • Imagining Caribbean Womanhood: Race, Nation and Beauty Competitions, 1929–70 Manchester University Press October 2013 192 pages 216 x 138 mm Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7190-8867-4 Rochelle Rowe University of Exeter Over fifty years after Jamaican and Trinidadian independence, Imagining Caribbean Womanhood examines the links between beauty and politics in the Anglophone Caribbean, providing a first cultural history…

  • Review of Brazilian Telenovelas and the Myth of Racial Democracy by Samantha Nogueira Joyce TriQuarterly: a journal of writing, art, and cultural inquiry from Northwestern University Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 2013-10-01 Reighan Gillam, Postdoctoral Research Fellow Department of Afroamerican and African Studies University of Michigan Telenovelas, or soap operas, are the main staple of television…

  • Reading Series: Quantifying Bloodlines Brooklyn Historical Society Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations Othmer Library Saturdays, 2013-11-16, 2013-12-07 and 2014-01-25; 15:00-18:00 EST (Local Time) Quantifying Bloodlines is a monthly reading group organized by anthropologist and oral historian Jennifer Scott.  Join others interested in exploring the relationship between biology and race, as we discuss three widely acclaimed books.…

  • Mixing Racial Messages Hyperallergic: Sensitive to Art & its Discontents 2013-10-30 Ryan Wong Starting with its title, the group exhibition War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art  at Seattle’s Wing Luke museum asks a provocative question: how do those seen by Americans as products of either colonial domination or subversive desire move past those categories? How do…

  • African-Americans and Latinos: Conflict or Collaboration? Ebony Magazine 2012-09-25 Eugene Holley, Jr. As Latinos now outnumber African-Americans as this country’s largest minority, could there be a political, social and economic union with our brown brothers and sisters? In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month – which runs through October 15th – EBONY interviewed African-Americans and Hispanics…