Category: Media Archive

  • From Slave Ship to Harvard: Yarrow Mamout and the History of an African American Family Fordham University Press May 2012 310 pages 6 x 9 25 Black and White Illustrations Hardcover ISBN: 9780823239504 James H. Johnston, Lawyer and Writer Washington, D.C. From Slave Ship to Harvard is the true story of an African American family…

  • A Home Elsewhere: Reading African American Classics in the Age of Obama Harvard University Press May 2010 192 pages 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches no illustrations Hardcover ISBN: 9780674050969 Robert B. Stepto, Professor of English, African American Studies, and American Studies Yale University In this series of interlocking essays, which had their start as lectures inspired…

  • Vivek Bald’s meticulous reconstruction reveals a lost history of South Asian sojourning and life-making in the United States. At a time when Asian immigrants were vilified and criminalized, Bengali Muslims quietly became part of some of America’s most iconic neighborhoods of color, from Tremé in New Orleans to Detroit’s Black Bottom, from West Baltimore to…

  • David Domke & Christopher Parker: Obama, the Tea Party, and Racism Town Hall Seattle Great Hall; enter on Eight Avenue 2012-09-24, 19:30-21:00 PDT (Local Time) David Domke, Chair of the University of Washington Department of Communications and a winner of the school’s Distinguished Teaching Award, believes President Barack Obama has been subjected to historically unprecedented…

  • The Eurasian Face Blacksmith Books November 2010 140 pages 70+ b/w images Bilingual: English/Chinese 20.5 x 31 cm Hardcover ISBN: 978-988-99799-9-7 Kirsteen Zimmern No one represents diversity better than Eurasians—those individuals with a mix of Caucasian and Asian heritage. Once a source of shame, the Eurasian face has become the face that sells. It is…

  • The Fifth Figure Bloodaxe Books 2006-09-28 80 pages Paperback ISBN-10: 1852247320; ISBN-13: 978-1852247324 Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze is a popular Jamaican Dub poet and storyteller whose performances are so powerful she has been called a ‘one-woman festival’. The Fifth Figure is a book-length sequence mixing poetry and prose which chronicles the lives of…

  • In this new symphonic collection, “Travel Light Travel Dark,” Agard casts his unique spin on the intermingling strands of British history, and leads us into metaphysical and political waters.

  • Poetry: Three Treasures by Hannah Lowe Freeword: a global meeting place for literature, argument and free thinking 2012-06-12 Hannah Lowe A panelist at ‘2 Nations’, our recent event exploring national identity, Hannah Lowe is a poet of Chinese, Jamaican and English heritage. In this poem she performed for the audience that night, she explores how…

  • The present writer proposes to profit by the suggestion of the author of of “Miscegenation” and coin another word, long needed.  It is subgenation, from sub, lower, and generatus and genus, a race born or created lower than another; i.e., the natural or normal relation of an inferior to a superior race.

  • Blackness and Transatlantic Irish Identity: Celtic Soul Brothers Routledge 2012-07-11 234 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-65367-1 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-80189-8 eBook ISBN: 978-0-203-85989-6 Lauren Onkey, Vice President of Education and Public Programs Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Cleveland, Ohio Blackness and Transatlantic Irish Identity analyzes the long history of imagined and real relationships between…