Category: Media Archive

  • AmbryShare Restores Genes to the Public Domain The Huffington Post 2016-03-29 Amal Cheema, Biochemistry and Political Science Student Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts “As a stage four cancer survivor, I find it shocking that public and private laboratories routinely lock away vital genomic information. That practice is delaying medical progress, causing real human suffering, and it…

  • Among A Race Of Others: An Overview Of Western Racial Classification And Colourism Media Diversified 2016-04-01 Anthony Anaxagorou Recently, a friend asked what makes someone a ‘person of colour’. For many White people and for many people of colour too, the term can seem strangely ambiguous. The ongoing refugee crisis has seen thousands of displaced…

  • Synagogues Need to Welcome and Celebrate Jewish Diversity Tablet 2016-03-31 MaNishtana MaNishtana is the psuedonym of Shais Rishon, an Orthodox African-American Jewish blogger, editor-at-large at JN Magazine, and author of Thoughts From A Unicorn and Fine, thanks. How are YOU, Jewish? Follow him on Twitter @MaNishtana. Thoughts on the importance of the updated list of…

  • Blanket Fort Chats: Game Making With Meagan Byrne FemHype: the safe space for women & nonbinary gamers 2016-04-01 Miss N (Nicole Pacampara) “Blanket Fort Chats” is a weekly column featuring women and nonbinary game makers talking about the craft of making games. In this week’s post, we feature Meagan Byrne, a Toronto-based Game Design student…

  • Whiteness and Miscegenation: Ethnographic Notes, Social Classifications and Silences in the Brazilian Context Studi Culturali Volume VII, Number 1, April 2010 pages 87-102 DOI: 10.1405/31883 Valeria Ribeiro Corossacz Dipartimento di studi linguistici e culturali Università degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia This article presents some reflections from ongoing research on white upper-middle class men…

  • Can a Dress Shirt Be Racist? Backchannel 2016-03-31 Moises Velasquez-Manoff Illustration by Michael Marsicano A startup finds that asking for certain data improves the fit of its clothes — and lands the company in a cultural minefield In 2008, an entrepreneur named Seph Skerritt was frustrated with the way he shopped for clothes. Then a student at…

  • Obama praises wife Michelle’s curves as he sits down with prima ballerina Misty Copeland for interview about body image and growing up black in America The Daily Mail London, United Kingdom 2016-03-14 The president and ballerina interviewed each other for TIME magazine Copeland is the first ever African American to be named the principal dancer…

  • Fear of Small Numbers: «Brown Babies» in Postwar Italy Contemporanea Volume XVIII, Number 4, October-December 2015 pages 537-568 DOI: 10.1409/81438 Silvana Patriarca, Professor of History Fordham University: The Jesuit University of New York By drawing in an interdisciplinary fashion on a variety of different sources (some of them archives only recently made available to the…

  • Professor Silvana Patriarca is a faculty member in the Fordham University History department and specializes in modern Italian history. She is currently exploring the interaction between ideas of nation and “race” and working on a book about the history of racism in post-World War II Italy. Her new book will focus on “mixed-race” children born…

  • Creole Renegades: Rhetoric of Betrayal and Guilt in the Caribbean Diaspora University Press of Florida 2014-06-17 240 pages 6.125 x 9.256 Hard Cover ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-4979-3 Bénédicte Boisseron, Associate Professor in French and Francophone Studies University of Montana In Creole Renegades, Bénédicte Boisseron looks at exiled Caribbean authors—Edwidge Danticat, Jamaica Kincaid, V. S. Naipaul, Maryse…