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  • Woman, Eating: A Literary Vampire Novel

    A young, mixed-race vampire must find a way to balance her deep-seated desire to live amongst humans with her incessant hunger in this stunning debut novel from a writer-to-watch.

  • Stranger and Alone: The Story of a Man Who Betrayed His Own People

    “Stranger and Alone” dramatizes the psychological and moral costs of denying one’s racial identity and allowing one’s “white face” to predominate. Striving for individual success through rejection of one’s people, the novel implies, amounts to a betrayal of oneself, as well as a futile striving against history, “the time on the clock of the world.

  • For Colin Kaepernick, Writing Is Another Form of Activism

    For Colin Kaepernick, Writing Is Another Form of Activism Publishers Weekly 2022-03-29 Nathalie op de Beeck, Associate Professor of English Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington Colin Kaepernick, at 34, presides over a multimedia platform for Black and brown people’s empowerment. In 2016, inspired by civil rights heroes, the then-San Francisco 49ers quarterback rocked the NFL…

  • I Color Myself Different

    An inspiring story of identity and self-esteem from celebrated athlete and activist Colin Kaepernick.

  • Special Issue “Multiracial Identities and Experiences in/under White Supremacy”

    Special Issue “Multiracial Identities and Experiences in/under White Supremacy” Social SciencesVolume 11, Number 2, Special Issue “Multiracial Identities and Experiences in/under White Supremacy”Published 2022-02-21 Guest Editors: David L. Brunsma, Professor of SociologyVirginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia Jennifer Sims, Assistant Professor of SociologyUniversity of Alabama, Huntsville Dear Colleagues, Social scientific scholarship on Multiracial experiences and processes of…

  • Trailblazer with Amandla Stenberg

    Ever since her breakout role in “The Hunger Games,” Amandla Stenberg’s career has gone from strength to strength. Here, the actor talks to Micha Frazer-Carroll about her involvement in the Black Lives Matter movement, how the pandemic has made her re-evaluate her life and why she’s keenly exploring other creative avenues

  • One More Census Takeaway: The End of an Era of Counting the Nation?

    Some experts are arguing that it’s time for the census to aggressively make use of government data and other sources to augment its own decennial count.

  • Gregory Howard Williams

    Williams spent the first ten years of his life believing he was white in segregated Virginia, and that his dark-skinned father was Italian. When his parents’ marriage ended, his father took him and his brother to Muncie, Indiana, where the boys learned that they were half black.

  • Nitasha Tamar Sharma: Hawai’i Is My Haven: Race and Indigeneity in the Black Pacific

    Nitasha Tamar Sharma: Hawai’i Is My Haven: Race and Indigeneity in the Black Pacific New Books Network 2022-03-30 Hawai’i Is My Haven: Race and Indigeneity in the Black Pacific (Duke UP, 2021) maps the context and contours of Black life in the Hawaiian Islands. This ethnography emerges from a decade of fieldwork with both Hawaiʻi-raised…

  • Performance and Identity in Adrian Piper’s Work

    Performance and Identity in Adrian Piper’s Work InMedia: The French Journal of Media Studies Volume 8, Number 2 (2020) DOI: 10.4000/inmedia.2754 17 pages Antonia Rigaud, Associate Professor of American Studies Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris France Lorna Simpson Head On Ice #3 2016 Ink and screenprint on gessoed fiberglass Unique 67 x 50 x 1 3/8…