Category: Media Archive

  • Prestigious grant award for research on President Obama Edge Hill University Ormskirk, Lancashire, United Kingdom News 2010-06-04 Edge Hill University and key partners have been awarded a prestigious grant to develop a research network on The Presidency of Barack Obama. The Arts and Humanities Research Council has given an award of £31,320 to the institution…

  • The Victorian Reinvention of Race: New Racisms and the Problem of Grouping in the Human Sciences Routledge 2010-06-23 248 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-65278-0 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-88125-8 eBook ISBN: 978-0-203-84498-4 Edward Beasley, Associate Professor of History San Diego State University In mid-Victorian England there were new racial categories based upon skin colour. The ‘races’ familiar to…

  • Racing Romance: Love, Power, and Desire Among Asian American/ White Couples Rutgers University Press June 2009 208 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-4533-2 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4532-5 Web PDF ISBN: 978-0-8135-4852-4 Kumiko Nemoto, Associate Professor of Sociology Western Kentucky University Despite being far from the norm, interracial relationships are more popular than ever. Racing Romance…

  • In the United States miscegenation is not merely a subject of literature and popular culture. It is in many ways the foundation of contemporary imaginary community. “The Romance of Race” examines the role of minority women writers and reformers in the creation of our modern American multiculturalism.

  • Quicksand and Passing Rutgers University Press 1986 246 pages Paper ISBN: 0-8135-1170-4 Nella Larsen (1891-1964) Edited by Deborah E. McDowell, Alice Griffin Professor of English University of Virginia Nella Larsen’s novels Quicksand (1928) and Passing (1929) document the historical realities of Harlem in the 1920s and shed a bright light on the social world of…

  • For minorities in France, Obama still casts a spell France 24: International News 2012-08-09 Jon Frosch Though his reputation among blacks and Arabs in France is showing ever-so-slight signs of wear and tear, US President Barack Obama remains a powerful symbol for French citizens of colour. France24.com takes a closer look. When Barack Obama was…

  • Argentina: Land of the Vanishing Blacks Ebony Magazine October 1973 pages 74-85 Era Bell Thompson Once outnumbering whites five to one, blacks were absorbed and inundated by massive immigration “If you are looking for black people, why,” they asked helpfully, “did you come to Argentina? Why don’t you go to Brazil?” Well, I had been…

  • Afroargentines The Argentina Independent 2007-03-23 Laura Balfour As a descendant of two slaves, Maria Lamadrid has a hard time biting her tongue when airport officials think her Argentine passport is not real because ‘there are no blacks in Argentina’.   And that was in 2002.   The 25th of March marks the landmark 200th anniversary…

  • The reawakening of Afro-Argentine culture Global Post 2009-08-30 Anil Mundra Descendants of slaves are starting to assert their identity but it’s not easy in South America’s whitest country. BUENOS AIRES — “Liberty has no color” read the signs held outside a Buenos Aires city courthouse. “Arrested for having the wrong face,” and “Suspected of an…

  • Rutgers Group Brings Students Together to Explore the Complexities of Being Multiracial Focus Rutgers University News September 2012 Carrie Stetler By 2050, one in five Americans is likely to be multiracial It’s a question Joan Gan hears a lot: “What are you?” She instantly knows what it means. Her father is Chinese and her mother…