Category: Media Archive

  • Warren Duffy has returned to America for all the worst reasons: His marriage to a beautiful Welsh woman has come apart; his comics shop in Cardiff has failed; and his Irish American father has died, bequeathing to Warren his last possession, a roofless, half-renovated mansion in the heart of black Philadelphia. On his first night…

  • “Illicit Love” is a history of love, sex, and marriage between Indigenous peoples and settler citizens at the heart of two settler colonial nations, the United States and Australia.

  • “She is Cuba: A Genealogy of the Mulata Body” traces the history of the Cuban mulata and her association with hips, sensuality and popular dance. It examines how the mulata choreographs her racialised identity through her hips and enacts an embodied theory called hip(g)nosis

  • They Called Me ‘Coffee with Milk’ as a Kid Zócalo Public Square 2015-11-19 Maya Soetoro-Ng (Photo by Kenna Reed) Peace Educator Maya Soetoro-Ng Wants America to Make Room for Complexity Maya Soetoro-Ng is the director of community outreach and global learning for the Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution at the University of Hawaii…

  • When Louisiana Creoles Arrived in Texas, Were They Black or White? Zócalo Public Square 2015-12-15 Tyina Steptoe, Assistant Professor of History University of Arizona Tyina Steptoe’s book, Houston Bound: Culture and Color in a Jim Crow City, was published by the University of California Press in 2015. Mixed-Race Migrants Came to Houston for Jobs and…

  • Houston Bound: Culture and Color in a Jim Crow City University of California Press November 2015 320 pages Hardback ISBN: 9780520282575 Paperback ISBN: 9780520282582 Tyina Steptoe, Assistant Professor of History University of Arizona Beginning after World War I and continuing throughout the twentieth century, Houston was transformed from a black-and-white frontier town into one of…

  • Under the Sky of My Africa: Alexander Pushkin and Blackness Northwestern University Press May 2006 488 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Paper ISBN: ISBN 978-0-8101-1971-0 Edited by: Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy (1951-2015), Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Russian Literature and Culture Barnard College Columbia University, New York, New York Nicole Svobodny, Assistant Dean, College of…

  • Passing in White America Chicago Humanities Festival 2015-12-18 Between the 18th and 20th centuries, countless African Americans passed as white, leaving behind families, friends, and community. It was, as Stanford historian Allyson Hobbs writes, a chosen exile, a separation from one racial identity and a leap into another. Her work explores the way this racial…

  • Old Dixie Highway renamed President Barack Obama Highway in Florida city The Washington Post 2015-12-19 Elahe Izadi, Reporter Workers install a new sign in Riviera Beach, Fla., on Thursday. (City of Riviera Beach) Old Dixie Highway is no more in Riviera Beach, Fla. Instead, motorists are driving on President Barack Obama Highway. Riviera Beach officials…

  • New York Times Just Boarded the Post-Racial Express: A critical response to “Choose Your Own Identity” Multiracial Asian Families 2015-12-16 Sharon H. Chang screen shot from NY Times Magazine This Monday, The New York Times Magazine published a very unfortunate essay about multiracial Asian children: Choose Your Own Identity, by author and mother Bonnie Tsui.…