Category: Media Archive

  • Panel discusses mixed race scholarship Washington Square News: NYU’s Independent Student Newspaper 2015-04-21 Amanda Morris, Contributing Writer Jared Sexton speaks on the topic of mixed race individuals. Sexton is the director of the African American Studies program in UC Irvine. (Shawn Paik) In studying mixed race identities, the historical focus has been on the individual,…

  • Color Blindness and Racial Politics in the Era of Obama Books & Ideas 2010-12-08 Andrew J. Diamond, Professor of American History and Civilization Université Paris-Sorbonne, France At a time when a supposedly “post-racial” America is becoming increasingly polarized over its first black president, historian Thomas Sugrue proposes a badly needed perspective on Obama’s attempts to…

  • Obama on Racism circa 1995 Horizons: Nancy LeTourneau’s big picture look at politics and life 2015-04-16 Nancy LeTourneau It is always fascinating to find articles and video about Barack Obama from the past. Recently a group called 22-CityView in Cambridge released the video of a reading and book discussion on Dreams From My Father by…

  • Conjugal Rights: Marriage, Sexuality, and Urban Life in Colonial Libreville, Gabon Ohio University Press 2014 336 pages 6 × 9 in., 7 b&w photos, 4 maps Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8214-2120-8 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8214-2119-2 Electronic ISBN: 978-0-8214-4503-7 Rachel Jean-Baptiste, Assistant Professor of African History University of California, Davis Conjugal Rights is a history of the role of…

  • Obama’s Mother Books & Ideas 2009-05-20 Gloria Origgi The American presidential election was won by a woman: Stanley Ann Dunham. Born in 1942, she died of cancer in 1995, shortly after turning 52, and thus without having seen her visionary dream realized: the election of her son, Barack Hussein Obama, as 44th President of the…

  • Race and Republicanism Books & Ideas 2015-02-23 (Originally published in laviedesidees.fr on February 17, 2014.) Dominique Schnapper, Director of Studies École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, France Translated by (with the support of the Florence Gould Foundation): Michael C. Behrent Though race is socially constructed, it nonetheless really exists: consequently, Magali Bessone argues,…

  • Meeting Miss Universe Japan, the ‘half’ who has it all The Japan Times 2015-04-19 Bay McNeil Star-struck: Baye McNeil meets Miss Universe Japan, Ariana Miyamoto, at The Japan Times offices in Tokyo. | OLGA GARNOVA I felt an almost star-struck excitement at the chance to interview the newly crowned Miss Universe Japan, Ariana Miyamoto. I…

  • Reading Racist Literature New Yorker 2015-04-13 Elif Batuman, Staff Writer Of the many passages that gave me pause when I first read “Lady Chatterley’s Lover,” in high school, the one I remember the most clearly is this conversation between Connie, Clifford, and the Irish writer Michaelis: “I find I can’t marry an Englishwoman, not even…

  • Legacies of war The Washington Post 2015-04-17 Annie Gowen, Bureau chief — New Delhi Linda Davidson, Photography Forty years after the fall of Saigon, soldiers’ children are still left behind Vo Huu Nhan was in his vegetable boat in the floating markets of the Mekong Delta when his phone rang. The caller from the United…

  • Today it’s taken for granted that people of all ethnic groups should be treated equally in the armed forces and elsewhere. But as Leslie Gordon Goffe writes, during World War One black officers in the British armed forces faced a system with prejudice at its core.