Category: Media Archive

  • Glimpse of a Visionary: Jeffrey Campbell ’33 St. Lawrence University Magazine Winter 2006 Steve Peraza ’06 Jeffrey Campbell ’33 is generally thought of as St. Lawrence’s first African-American graduate. In a University Fellowship paper, Steve Peraza ’06, a history and sociology double major from New York City, contends that Campbell deserves to be recognized on…

  • LLS-4910-850: Race and Ethnicity in Latin America University of Nebraska, Ohama Fall 2011 Olga Celle, Visiting Professor of Sociology This course is a semester long discussion on Mestizaje or racial/ethnic mixing in Latin America. The premise informing the discussion is that race and ethnicity are social constructions—There are no actual races or ethnicities in the…

  • ASAM 187. Asian Pacific American Mixed Race Issues Pomona College, Claremont, California Spring 2008 Course will explore the lives of racially and ethnically mixed people, focusing on Asian Pacific Americans. As intermarriage rates increase for all groups, the experiences of multiracial people reflect in distinctive ways the cultural and identity choices that individuals and communities…

  • FYS 102N: Exploring Mixed Identities University of Maryland, Baltimore County Fall 2011 The aim of this course is to move beyond prevalent monoracial discourses by examining identities and experiences from a mixed race/mixed ethnicity perspective. This course explores many topics such as the history of racialization, processes of othering, acceptance and the politics of claiming,…

  • Interview with Kym Ragusa: (Passing) Reel New York: Season 2 thirteen: WNET New York From Week Four (May 1997) Kathy High, Series Curator Series curator Kathy High conducted this telephone interview with Kym Ragusa in May, 1997. Q: The first question I’d like to ask you, Kym, is what prompted you to make the piece?…

  • Passing Third World Newsreel 1995 Black & White 9 minutes United States Kym Ragusa The videomaker’s grandmother recounts the tale of a trip she and her lover took through the segregated South of the 1950s. As her story unfolds—revealing as much in silences and gaps as it does in its actual narrative—a blues and gospel…

  • Fuori/Outside Third World Newsreel 1997 Color 12 minutes United States Kym Ragusa In Fuori/Outside the videomaker, a woman of African American and Italian American descent, examines her relationship with her Italian American grandmother. The lives of the two women are inextricably linked to local geographies; family stories embedded in the walls of tenement buildings and…

  • Conference Keynote: White Privilege and the Biopolitics of Race Understanding and Dismantling Privilege Volume 1, Number 1 (2010) 16 pages Online ISSN: 2152-1875 10th Annual White Privilege Conference Keynote Address Saturday, April 4, 2009 Memphis, Tennessee Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology; Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of…

  • The Realities of Races Is Race “Real”? A web forum organized by the Social Science Research Council 2006-06-07 Jonathan Marks, Professor of Anthropology University of North Carolina, Charlotte Introduction Anthropologists have been studying race for over 200 years now, and contrary to what seems to be conventional wisdom (at least as articulated in Leroi’s New…

  • Afro-Latino forum fosters dialogue on colorism, lived experiences The Tufts Daily The independent student newspaper of Tufts University 2011-12-01 Brionna Jimerson Gabrielle Hernandez Academic study and lived experience converged last night at the Afro−Latino Roundtable Forum, where an assembly of over 50 students, faculty and visiting speakers participated in a dialogue about the Afro−Latino experience…