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  • More than a Feeling: Jews and Whiteness in Trump’s America

    A few weeks after the election, I had dinner at my grandparents’ house. I typically associate my visits to their home with raucous family gatherings of a cross-section of our grandparents’ six children and twenty-odd grandkids. But this was an unusually intimate setting—just my sibling and I across from them at their dining room table.

  • Race, Space, and the Law: Unmapping a White Settler Society

    “Race, Space, and the Law” belongs to a growing field of exploration that spans critical geography, sociology, law, education, and critical race and feminist studies. Writers who share this terrain reject the idea that spaces, and the arrangement of bodies in them, emerge naturally over time. Instead, they look at how spaces are created and…

  • Ireland’s forgotten mixed-race child abuse victims – video

    Rosemary Adaser was one of many mixed-race children considered illegitimate who was brought up in institutions run by the Catholic church in Ireland between the 1950s and 1970s. She tells of the abuse and racist treatment she suffered, and returns to her school in Kilkenny for the first time in 40 years and attempts to…

  • Why are some black Africans considered white Americans?

    I always knew I was black. My childhood was the scent of coconut oil hair cream and the taste of bean pie after Friday prayers in a Bilalian mosque on Chicago’s south side. I knew the words to “Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika” and called Harold Washington my mayor, even though I lived in the suburbs…

  • New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration

    When Joseph Nathaniel Beckles registered for the draft in the 1942, he rejected the racial categories presented to him and persuaded the registrar to cross out the check mark she had placed next to Negro and substitute “Ethiopian Hebrew.” “God did not make us Negroes,” declared religious leaders in black communities of the early twentieth-century…

  • @X: Making America White 200 Years Ago

    @X: Making America White 200 Years Ago Public Books 2017-02-17 Brandon R. Byrd, Assistant Professor of History Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee In the latest edition of our anniversaries series, Brandon Byrd examines resistance to the American Colonization Society’s attempts to remove free blacks from the US. In January 1817, more than three thousand African Americans…

  • The Checkered Past of Brazil’s New Race Court (JWJI Race & Difference Colloquium Series)

    The Checkered Past of Brazil’s New Race Court (JWJI Race & Difference Colloquium Series) Jones Room, Woodruff Library The James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference Emory University Atlanta, Georgia 30322 Monday, 2017-02-06, 12:00-13:30 EST (Local Time) Ruth Hill, Andrew W. Mellon Chair in the Humanities, Professor of Spanish Vanderbilt University, Nashville,…

  • Unmaking Race and Ethnicity: A Reader

    “(Un)Making Race and Ethnicity: A Reader,” edited by Michael O. Emerson, Jenifer L. Bratter, and Sergio Chávez, helps instructors and students connect with primary texts in ways that are informative and interesting, leading to engaging discussions and interactions.

  • Afro-Palestinians’ forge a unique identity in Israel

    Afro-Palestinians’ forge a unique identity in Israel The Associated Press 2017-01-12 Isma’il Kushkush In this Dec. 31, 2016 photo, Arab families of African descent attend a wedding in the West Bank city of Ramallah. In the shadow of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City lies the “African Quarter” — home to a little-known community…

  • Descendants Of Native American Slaves In New Mexico Emerge From Obscurity

    Descendants Of Native American Slaves In New Mexico Emerge From Obscurity All Things Considered National Public Radio 2016-12-29 John Burnett, Southwest Correspondent, National Desk Santo Tomas Catholic church in Abiquiu, N.M., is the site of an annual saint’s day celebration in late November that includes cultural elements of the genizaros, the descendants of Native American…