Category: Media Archive

  • The Absurdity of America: George S. Schuyler’s Black No More EnterText: an interdisciplinary humanities e-journal Volume 1, Number 1 (Winter 2000) Americas, Americans pages 127-148 Joseph Mills, Susan Burress Wall Distinguished Professor of the Humanities North Carolina School of the Arts, Winston-Salem It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at…

  • ENGL 3270.03: Contemporary Canadian Literature: Crossing the Line Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Summer 2007 Dr. C. Dawson Our study of contemporary Canadian literature will be loosely divided into three sections, each organized around the idea of “crossing the line.” In the first section the line under consideration will be the border that defines…

  • Portrait of Crimean War Nurse Mary Seacole Acquired by National Portrait Gallery artdaily.org 2012-02-12 Mary Seacole by Albert Charles Challen, 1869. ©National Portrait Gallery, London. LONDON.- The only known painting of Mary Seacole, the black Victorian nurse regarded as one of the most significant figures to emerge from the Crimean War, is to remain at…

  • Spoilt for choice? New Law Journal: Leading on debate, litigation & dispute resolution Vol 162, Issue 7498 2012-01-26 Adrian Jack, Barrister & Rechtsanwalt Enterprise Chambers Encouraging greater judicial diversity is no easy task, says Adrian Jack The government is consulting on creating greater diversity in the judiciary. Where candidates for judicial appointment are of similar…

  • Obituaries: Fredi Washington, 90, Actress; Broke Ground for Black Artists The New York Times 1994-06-30 Sheila Rule Fredi Washington, one of the first black actresses to gain recognition for her work on stage and in film, died on Tuesday at St. Joseph Medical Center in Stamford, Conn., where she lived. She was 90. The cause…

  • Looking White, Acting Black: Cast(e)ing Fredi Washington Theatre Survey Volume 45, Issue 1 (2004) pages 19-40 DOI: 10.1017/S0040557404000031 Cheryl Black, Associate Professor of Acting, Theatre History/Theory/Criticism University of Missouri, Columbia In October 1926 a leading African-American newspaper, the Pittsburgh Courier, featured adjacent photographs of two young women with a provocative caption: “White Actresses Who Open…

  • Book Review: Go White, Young Man Vanderbilt Law Review Volume 65, En Banc 1 (2012-01-30) 10 pages Alfred L. Brophy, Judge John J. Parker Distinguished Professor of Law University of North Carolina School of Law Daniel J. Sharfstein. The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White. New York: Penguin…

  • ‘Race’ as a scientific and organizational construct: a critique GeoJournal Volume 41, Number 3 (March 1997) pages 233-243 DOI: 10.1023/A:1006881215239 Georges G. Cravins, Professor of Geography University of Wisconsin, La Crosse “Race” for many years has been a major construct of science and society. While its importance as such has not historically been particularly pronounced…

  • MOsley WOtta Frontman Jason Graham to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed. Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox, Heidi W. Durrow and Jennifer Frappier Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #245 –…

  • Interethnic diversity of NAT2 polymorphisms in Brazilian admixed populations BMC Genetics Volume 11, Number 1 (2010-10-05) pages 87-93 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-11-87 Jhimmy Talbot Laboratório de Farmacogenômica e Epidemiologia Molecular Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz Luiz Alexandre V. Magno Laboratório de Farmacogenômica e Epidemiologia Molecular Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz Cinthia VN Santana Laboratório de Farmacogenômica e…