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  • Blackass: a race rewrite of Kafka’s Metamorphosis

    Blackass: a race rewrite of Kafka’s Metamorphosis The Guardian 2016-04-13 Ainehi Edoro Ainehi Edoro reflects on Blackass, a novel that subjects Kafka’s classic to African literary conventions – and, in the process, gives an iconic European story ‘an extreme but necessary makeover’ Last year, I received a review copy of A Igoni Barrett’s Blackass from…

  • #BlackLivesMatter in Latin America: Race, Space and Consciousness

    #BlackLivesMatter in Latin America: Race, Space and Consciousness New York University Department of Social & Cultural Analysis 20 Cooper Square New York, New York 10003 Monday, 2016-04-18 18:30-20:00 EDT (Local Time) The hashtag turned social movement, #blacklivesmatter, has thrust police brutality and institutionalized racism into the American consciousness. African descendants in Latin America are concurrently…

  • Race isn’t just black or white

    Race isn’t just black or white The Beacon: The Student Voice of the University of Portland Since 1935 Portland, Oregon 2016-04-13 Rebekah Markillie, Design Editor I couldn’t have been more than seven or eight years old, on the way to the park with my dad, when a neighborhood kid asked me if I was adopted.…

  • Michele Elam: “The Souls of Mixed Folk” (NBAAS, 31/10/12)

    Michele Elam: “The Souls of Mixed Folk” (NBAAS, 31/10/12) YouTube Race & Ethnicity Archive 2016-03-19 “What are you?” The question can often comes out of nowhere One can be going about her quotidian activities, or she might have just finished a meeting at work. “What are you?” The question is disorienting for most, but for…

  • Poetry Betrays Whiteness

    Poetry Betrays Whiteness Harriet: A Poetry Blog Poetry Foundation 2016-04-12 Lucas de Lima (Introduction by Daniel Borzutzky) Among the many pointed questions that Lucas de Lima raises in “Poetry Betrays Whiteness” is that of how positions of unitedstatesian privilege can be used “to fight structural inequality and global anti-blackness.” This far-reaching essay touches upon, among…

  • The Specter of Races: Latin American Anthropology and Literature between the Wars

    Arguing that race has been the specter that has haunted many of the discussions about Latin American regional and national cultures today, Anke Birkenmaier shows how theories of race and culture in Latin America evolved dramatically in the period between the two world wars.

  • Antiracism in Cuba: The Unfinished Revolution

    Antiracism in Cuba: The Unfinished Revolution University of North Carolina Press April 2016 332 pages 6.125 x 9.25 24 halftones, notes, bibl., index Paper ISBN: 978-1-4696-2672-7 Devyn Spence Benson, Assistant Professor of History and African and African American Studies Louisiana State University Analyzing the ideology and rhetoric around race in Cuba and south Florida during…

  • Negotiating Identities: Mixed Race Individuals in China, Japan, and Korea

    Negotiating Identities: Mixed Race Individuals in China, Japan, and Korea University of San Francisco McLaren Complex – MC 250 2130 Fulton Street San Francisco, California 94117-1080 2016-04-14 through 2016-04-15 The University of San Francisco Center for Asia Pacific Studies is pleased to announce its spring symposium Negotiating Identities: Mixed-Race Individuals in China, Japan, and Korea,…

  • The PBS NewsHour Launches Year Long Conversation on Race, Diversity and Intolerance

    The PBS NewsHour Launches Year Long Conversation on Race, Diversity and Intolerance PBS NewsHour 2015-08-31 Media Relations Contacts: Nick Massella, Director of Audience Engagement and Communications James Blue, Senior Content and Special Projects Producer WASHINGTON, DC (August 31, 2015) – Michael Brown. Freddie Gray. Eric Garner. These are just three names that have dominated news…

  • String of Pearls: Exploring the Melungeon mystery

    String of Pearls: Exploring the Melungeon mystery SWVa Today Wytheville, Virginia 2016-03-29 Margaret Linford, President Smyth County Genealogical Society, Marion, Virginia Judge Isaac Freeman spoke to the Smyth County Genealogical Society on Tuesday, March 22, regarding the Melungeon people. He has been intrigued by this topic for many years. His father was best friends with…