Category: Media Archive

  • A Refugee from His Race: Albion W. Tourgée and His Fight against White Supremacy University of North Carolina Press 2016-05-02 464 pages 9 halftones, notes, bibl., index 6.125 x 9.25 Paper ISBN: 978-1-4696-2795-3 Carolyn L. Karcher During one of the darkest periods of U.S. history, when white supremacy was entrenching itself throughout the nation, the…

  • The “Highly Important Matter of Clothes”: Apparel and Identity in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand Fringe: The Noun That Verbs Your World Issue 19, Summer 2009 (2009-07-19) Kaley Joyes Nella Larsen’s novel Quicksand (1928) is saturated with clothing. This essay examines the ways in which Larsen uses fashionable apparel to map connections between racial identity and aesthetic…

  • Jews of Color Get Personal and Political at First-Ever National Gathering Forward 2016-05-04 Sigal Samuel, Opinion Editor If you want to get black Jews, Mizrahi Jews and a Palestinian-American Muslim to burst into tears at the same time, invite Yavilah McCoy to talk about hair. Speaking at the opening plenary of the Jews of Color…

  • Jewish/Afro-Caribbean artist, performer and playwright Sarah Waisvisz, 34, will be presenting her one-woman show, Monstrous, which explores the often ignored mixed race identity based on her own personal experiences, and her work on her PhD thesis research about Francophone/Anglophone literature specifically by Afro/Caribbean women

  • What Obama’s Trip To Havana Revealed About Race In Cuba And The U.S. African American Intellectual History Society 2016-05-04 Devyn Spence Benson, Assistant Professor of History and African and African American Studies Louisiana State University During his groundbreaking visit to Havana last month, President Barack Obama suggested that the embrace of U.S.-style democracy and capitalism…

  • The Calumet Roundtable: A Discussion with Samantha Joyce The Calumet Roundtable 2016-04-07 Lee Artz, Host and Professor of Communication Purdue University Calumet, Hammond, Indiana Samantha Joyce, Professor of Mass Communication Indiana University, South Bend In this episode of “The Calumet Roundtable,” host Dr. Lee Artz, Professor of Communication at Purdue University Calumet, and guest Dr.…

  • Race & Racisms: A Critical Approach [Gabriel Review] Tanya Maria Golash-Boza, Race and Racisms: A Critical Approach (New York, London: Oxford University Press, 2014) Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Published online before print 2016-04-22 DOI: 10.1177/2332649216645801 Ricardo Gabriel The Graduate Center City University of New York Explaining to students that race is a social construction…

  • Why does the Misty Copeland Barbie doll look so … white? The Washington Post 2016-05-03 Sara L. Kaufman, Dance Critic The new Misty Copeland Barbie doll. Photographer Dennis Di Laura Stylist Sheryl Fetrick On Monday, Mattel rolled out a Barbie doll modeled on ballerina Misty Copeland, who broke the color barrier at American Ballet Theatre…

  • Coloring Outside The Lines With Interracial Marriage The Stony Brook Independent Stony Brook, New York 2016-05-02 Kayla Frazier, Staff Writer For Stony Brook student Shage Price, being the daughter of parents of different races led her to have questions about her looks early on. “I would always ask my mother why she married daddy and…

  • Paperback Row Book Review The New York Times 2016-04-29 Joumana Khatib Seven new paperbacks to check out this week… …A CHOSEN EXILE: A History of Racial Passing in American Life, by Allyson Hobbs. (Harvard University, $16.95.) People who chose to “pass” were intentionally clandestine and left few clues of their histories, but here, Hobbs, a…