Category: Media Archive

  • Review: Nuance-Deprived “Race” Movie ‘Black or White’ is Actually About White Frustration (Opens Friday) Shadow and Act: On Cinema Of The African Diaspora 2015-01-27 Zeba Blay “Black or White” opens nationwide this Friday, January 30, via Relativity… Is it any wonder that a movie as lazily titled as “Black or White” fails to actually tackle…

  • “A Spirit that Nursed a Grievance:” William Plomer’s “The Child of Queen Victoria” English in Africa Volume 39, Number 2 (2012) DOI: 10.4314/eia.v39i2.7 M Shum When William Plomer’s The Child of Queen Victoria and Other Stories was published by Jonathan Cape in 1933, his literary reputation was well established: he was the author of two…

  • Curly Hair Mixed Humans ~ Reflections on occupying a space of inbetweenness. Persistently grappling with identity. 2015-01-26 Brian Kamanzi Cape Town, South Africa My Curly hair. This hair I have on my head has always been something I’ve had to be conscious about. Growing up my soft curls where a marker of my “difference”. Mum…

  • Skin Mixed Roots Stories 2015-01-26 Tru Leverette, Associate Professor of English University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida “I wish I had white skin,” my three year-old daughter said, swinging breezily at the park. Gulp. “Why do you say that, Sweetheart?” I asked, outwardly calm but inwardly exclaiming, Shit! What do I do with this? “Because…

  • The Born Identity: Race & Identity in the Multiracial Community Districtly Speaking Mt. Pleasant Neighborhood Library 3160 16th Street, Northwest Washington, D.C. 20010 Thursday, 2015-01-29, 18:30-20:00 EST (Local Time) “Race is not a universal concept — the definitions we go by are often arbitrary, uniquely American and undergo dramatic shifts from one generation to the…

  • Thinking Outside the Box: Multiple Identity Mind-Sets Affect Creative Problem Solving Social Psychological and Personality Science Published online before print: 2015-01-27 DOI: 10.1177/1948550614568866 Sarah E. Gaither, Provost’s Career Enhancement Postdoctoral Scholar University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Jessica D. Remedios, Assistant Professor of Psychology Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts Diana T. Sanchez, Associate Professor of Psychology Rutgers,…

  • Have That Awkward Conversation About Race – And Yes, Whiteness Too KUOW 94.9 FM Seattle, Washington 2014-12-24 Jamala Henderson, Morning Newscaster/Reporter Protests over high profile police shootings have renewed calls to discuss police treatment of African-Americans – and talk about race relations in general. But how do we have those difficult and often awkward conversations?…

  • Is the Defendant White or Not? The New York Times 2015-01-23 Nour Kteily, Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations Kellogg School of Management Northwestern University Sarah Cotterill, Doctoral Student Department of Psychology Harvard University AS jury selection continues in the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the defendant in the Boston Marathon bombings, so does debate about…

  • Moving beyond monoracial categories The Daily: of the University of Washington 2015-01-25 Emily Muirhead I once had a professor claim that in 50 years, everyone will be so racially “mixed” and therefore ambiguous, no one will be able to distinguish “what someone is,” so race won’t matter much anymore. As a biracial individual who has…