Category: Media Archive

  • Sorry Music Journalists, Drake is Black. Canadaland 2015-04-30 Kyrell Grant Writers need to stop policing his blackness It feels ridiculous to have to say this: Drake is black. Drake, born Aubrey Graham in a city where almost one in ten people are black, is black. Toronto’s greatest civic triumphalist since Jane Jacobs is black. He…

  • TCK TALENT: Neil Aitken, Computer Gaming Whiz Kid Turned Award-Winning Poet The Displaced Nation 2015-04-29 Elizabeth (Lisa) Liang Neil Aitken (photo supplied) Elizabeth (Lisa) Liang is back with her column featuring interviews with Adult Third Culture Kids (ATCKs) who work in creative fields. Lisa herself is a prime example. A Guatemalan-American of Chinese-Spanish-Irish-French-German-English descent, she…

  • In Ferguson, Obama missed his chance to transcend race The Orlando Sentinal Orlando, Florida 2015-04-29 Charles Michael Byrd, Guest Columnist Pundits habitually wonder what happened to the post-racial America they believed Barack Obama’s election would herald. The president, however, has never indicated his willingness to lead the country out of the race-consciousness wilderness. Many thought…

  • The Forgotten Supervillain of Antebellum Tennessee Narratively: Human Stories, Boldy Told. 2015-04-28 Betsy Phillips (Photo Source: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Isaac-franklin-by-wb-cooper.jpg) In a brutal business defined by cruelty, Isaac Franklin was perhaps the worst slave trader in all of cotton country—and the richest man in the south. Yet today his heinous crimes are long forgotten. The people of Nashville…

  • One-Dropping and Multi-Dropping: Embracing Contradictions of the Racialized Self (A Personal Journey) Musings of a Mixed Race Feminist: Random diatribes from a mixed race feminist scholar. Donna J. Nicol, Associate Professor Women & Gender Studies California State University, Fullerton My exploration of my mixed race identity began in my early 20’s after an incident I…

  • “There is nothing ‘black’ about rioting”: Actor Jesse Williams unloads on Baltimore critics in passionate Twitter essay Salon 2015-04-28 Joanna Rothkopf, Assistant Editor (Credit: DFree via Shutterstock) The “Grey’s Anatomy” actor wrote about the prevelance of rioting throughout history On Monday evening, as Baltimore was rocked by violent and nonviolent protests alike, actor Jesse Williams,…

  • Dragons in the Land of the Condor: Writing Tusán in Peru University of Arizona Press 2014 264 pages 6.00 x 9.00 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8165-3111-0 Ignacio López-Calvo, Professor of Latin American Literature University of California, Merced Foreword by Eugenio Chang-Rodríguez, Professor Emeritus Building on his 2013 study on Nikkei cultural production in Peru, in Dragons in…

  • Brian Bantum on Redeeming Mulatto Homebrewed Christianity 2014-08-17 Bo Sanders Brian Bantum teaches theology at Seattle Pacific University out in the mighty Northwest. This spring when he and Callid were both at the Christian Leadership Forum of FTE they sat down to talk about Brian’s book Redeeming Mulatto: A Theology of Race and Christian Hybridity.…

  • President Obama Condemns Both the Baltimore Riots and the Nation’s ‘Slow-Rolling Crisis’ The New York Times 2015-04-28 Julie Hirschfeld Davis, White House Correspondent Matt Apuzzo WASHINGTON — President Obama responded with passion and frustration on Tuesday to the violence that has rocked Baltimore and other cities after the deaths of young black men in confrontations…

  • “A Chosen Exile” by History Professor Allyson Hobbs, has won two prizes from the Organization of American Historians Stanford University Department of History Palo Alto, California 2015-04-20 “A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life” by History Professor Allyson Hobbs has won two prizes from the Organization of American Historians: the Frederick Jackson…