Category: Media Archive

  • Still Too Good, Too Bad or Invisible The New York Times 2013-02-15 Nelson George A black slave is torn apart by dogs as a crowd of white overseers savors the sight and a black bounty hunter watches passively behind shades. A black father makes his little girl crack open a crab with her bare hands…

  • Exactly How ‘Black’ Is Black America? The Root 2013-02-11 Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research Harvard University 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro: Find out the percentage of African ancestry in black Americans. (The Root) — 100 Amazing…

  • Cultural Imperialism and the Transformation of Race Relations in Brazil Latin American Perspectives Issue 178, Volume 38, Number 3 (May 2011) pages 194-208 DOI: 10.1177/0094582X10390624 Bernadete Ramos Beserra, Professor Federal University of Ceará Edward E. Telles, Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil. Princeton, NJ, and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006.…

  • “Faces In Between”: A 3MW Collective Exhibition [Review] Jenney Donkey 2013-02-12 Jennifer McKinley At an event, a party, a gathering or any place where I meet new people, I am invariably asked the Question: Where are you from?   “Toronto,” I answer. This is not the response they are looking for and I know it.…

  • By Custom and By Law: Black Folklore and Racial Representation at the Birth of Jim Crow University of Maryland, College Park 2006 222 pages Shirley C. Moody Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Maryland, College Park in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of…

  • Daniel J. Sharfstein. The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White. New York: Penguin Press, 2011. 415 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9781594202827. Steven F. Riley 2011-02-28 “This is the decade of Tiger Woods and Barack Obama, where we talked about race combinations,” Robert Groves, director of the federal agency, said…

  • The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War University of North Carolina Press 2001 336 pages 6.125 x 9.25 32 illus., 9 genealogical charts, 10 maps, appends., notes, bibl., index Paper ISBN:  978-0-8078-5467-9 Victoria E. Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos Between late 1863 and mid-1864, an armed band of Confederate deserters…

  • Racial identity and the law: miscegenation and the “one drop rule” Renegade South: histories of unconventional southerners 2011-08-05 Victoria E. Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History (author of The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies) Texas State University, San Marcos The “one drop rule” of race refers to the belief that…

  • The election of Barack Obama has had surprisingly little impact on a nation fixated on race

  • A new mixed-raced generation is transforming the city: Will Toronto be the world’s first post-racial metropolis? Toronto Life 2013-02-12 Nicholas Hune-Brown, Author Kourosh Keshiri, Photography Interviews by Jasmine Budak I used to be the only biracial kid in the room. Now, my exponentially expanding cohort promises a future where everyone is mixed. Last fall, I…