Category: Media Archive

  • Debunking the ‘Half-Breed’ Label Indian Country Today Media Network 2015-07-01 Micah Armstrong Blackfoot Indian of the Siksika Nation Half-breed, mixed-blood, metis… These words are more than familiar to us who are not full-blooded American Indians. And by those who are not full-blooded, I do not speak of those who claim a “great-great-great grandmother who was…

  • Read the Full Transcript of TIME’s Conversation With President Obama and Misty Copeland TIME 2016-03-14 Maya Rhodan, White House Reporter The first African American president and the first black principal dancer at the American Ballet Theater have much more in common than their success. Both have risen to the pinnacle of institutions that have historically…

  • Beautiful White Girlhood?: Daisy Buchanan in Nella Larsen’s Passing African American Review Volume 47, Number 1, Spring 2014 pages 37-49 Sinéad Moynihan, Lecturer in English University of Exeter This article expands recent scholarship on race in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and intertextuality in Nella Larsen’s Passing by arguing that the latter is a…

  • Story Of A Criminal The Indianapolis Journal Indianapolis, Indiana Sunday, 1894-06-17 page 16, columns 1-2 How Green Goods Men Are Protected by Gotham Police. Tale of Iniquity Unequaled In the Annals of Municipal Corruption—Testimony of George Appo. NEW YORK, June 16. During the past week the Lexow committee opened up an entirely new line of…

  • Whose President Was He? Politico Magazine Volume 3, Number 2 (January/February 2016) [The Obama Issue] Michael Eric Dyson, Professor of Sociology Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Barack Obama brushed aside the critics who hated him for his skin color—but failed to see the racial confrontation they foretold. “If I spent all my time thinking about it,…

  • Proud of Obama’s Presidency, Blacks Are Sad to See Him Go The New York Times 2016-03-12 Yamiche Alcindor CHICAGO — In his 30s and 40s, the Rev. C.T. Vivian rode with the Freedom Riders, organized sit-ins in Nashville and worked closely with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Many years later, before the 2008…

  • Mixed-Race Politics: Bill de Blasio’s 2013 New York City Mayoral Campaign University of Michigan Haven Hall, Room 4701 505 State Street Ann Arbor, Michigan Monday, 2016-03-14, 17:30 CDT (Local Time) Michelle May-Curry American Culture Please join the Black Humanities Collective as we workshop a presentation by Michelle May-Curry, a doctoral student in American Culture. Dinner…

  • How Trump Happened Slate 2016-03-13 Jamelle Bouie, Chief Political Correspondent It’s not just anger over jobs and immigration. White voters hope Trump will restore the racial hierarchy upended by Barack Obama. “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win,” goes the line attributed to Mahatma Gandhi. Typically,…

  • Should biologists stop grouping us by race? STAT: Reporting from the frontiers of health and medicine 2016-02-04 Sharon Begley More than a decade after leading geneticists argued that race is not a true biological category, many studies continue to use it, harming scientific understanding and possibly patients, researchers argued in a provocative essay in Science…

  • Before People Called Me A Spic, They Called Me A Nigger Medium 2016-03-11 Pablo Guzmán It was a throwaway line I used. Deliberately. Speaking to mostly Latino and African-American audiences. Back in the day. “Before people called me a spic, they called me a nigger.” And it hit the mark. The hoots, applause, whistles and…