Category: Media Archive

  • Medicating Race: Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference Duke University Press October 2012 280 pages 5 illustrations Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-5344-7 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-5329-4 Anne Pollock, Assistant Professor of Science, Technology and Culture Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia In Medicating Race, Anne Pollock traces the intersecting discourses of race, pharmaceuticals, and heart disease in…

  • What My Mother Gave Me Mixed Dreams: towards a radical multiracial/ethnic movement 2012-09-27 Nicole Asong Nfonoyim “To lose your mother was to be denied your kin, country, and identity. To lose your mother was to forget your past.” —Dr. Saidiya Hartman I am the spitting image of my mother. Three years ago I learned the…

  • The Mixed Race of India Sacramento Daily Union Volume 84, Number 71 1892-11-11 page 4, column 3 Source: California Digital Newspaper Collection Eurasia has no boundaries. It lies, a varying social fact, all over India, thick in the great cities, thickest in Calcutta, where the conditions of climate and bread-wining are most suitable; where, moreover,…

  • A Sad Case of Amalgamation The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Volume 19, Number 211 1860-09-05 page 1, column 6 Source: Brooklyn Public Library’s Brooklyn Collection The reporter of the Philadelphia Press has been around among the colored folks of Philadelphia, and In the course of his peregrination he met with the following case of practical amalgamation:…

  • The Chalk Circle: Intercultural Prizewinning Essays Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing 2012-05-15 220 pages 5 x 8 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-936214-71-6 Tara L. Masih, Writer & Editor Award-winning editor Tara L. Masih put out a call in 2007 for Intercultural Essays dealing with the subjects of “culture, race, and a sense of place.” The prizewinners are gathered for the…

  • The pressure on our space of other matter has prevented us from recurring to the serious and important topic of “Miscegenation.” We regret very much, however, having allowed our attention to be even temporarily diverted from it, as we find from the earnest discussion which it is receiving at the hands of our cotemporaries, that…

  • “Miscegenation” at the North. The Southern Banner, Athens, Georgia 1864-04-20 Page 4, column 2 Source: Athens Historic Newspapers Archive (Digital Library of Georgia as part of Georgia HomePLACE) “Miscegenation“—the new term for amalgamation, is the last and newest phase of abolitionism at the North—openly and unblushtngly avowed, and preached even from the pulpit. The New…

  • Miscegenation Banner-Watchman, Athens, Georgia 1884-02-26 page 2, column 1 Source: Athens Historic Newspapers Archive (Digital Library of Georgia as part of Georgia HomePLACE) The New York World, in a recent article upon the marriage of Fred Douglass [to Helen Pits], has this to say upon the subject of miscegenation: “What offense does a lady commit…

  • In ‘Red Pyramid,’ Kid Heroes Take On Ancient Egypt Backseat Bookclub All Things Considered National Public Radio 2012-12-19 Melissa Block, Host Robert Siegel, Senior Host If there was a recipe for the best-selling writer Rick Riordan, it would go something like this — start with a love of storytelling, fold in more than a decade…

  • Commentary: Black Is… Black Entertainment Television (BET) 2012-12-17 James Braxton Peterson, Director of Africana Studies; Associate Professor of English Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Black in America explores what it means to be Black. CNN’s Black in America series has become something of a welcome crucible for the Black community these last four years — especially…