Category: Communications/Media Studies

  • Chris Harper Mercer’s “Mixed Race” Identity and the Umpqua Community College Shooting Daily Kos 2015-10-02 Chauncey DeVega It is a new/old day in America. On Thursday, there was another mass shooting. On Friday, today, and tomorrow, and in the week’s thereafter America’s politicians will do nothing to stop the plague of gun violence. This is…

  • Stop Turning Mixed Race Girls Into a Fetish Consented 2016-03-04 Antonia King History graduate turned job hunter, currently living between Devon and London, spoken word artist and lover of Nicki Minaj. I was in Sainsbury’s and a white woman who helped me reach something on the top shelf decided to ask me my ethnic background.…

  • Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence University of Georgia Press May 2016 336 pages Trim size: 6 x 9 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8203-4956-5 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8203-4957-2 Author Website Edited by: Chad Williams, Associate Professor of African & Afro-American Studies Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts Kidada E. Williams, Associate Professor of History Wayne State University,…

  • The Calumet Roundtable: A Discussion with Samantha Joyce The Calumet Roundtable 2016-04-07 Lee Artz, Host and Professor of Communication Purdue University Calumet, Hammond, Indiana Samantha Joyce, Professor of Mass Communication Indiana University, South Bend In this episode of “The Calumet Roundtable,” host Dr. Lee Artz, Professor of Communication at Purdue University Calumet, and guest Dr.…

  • Ninety years ago, writer Carl Van Vechten published a novel intended to be a celebration of Harlem, which at the time was experiencing a budding literary, artistic, and intellectual movement that sparked a new cultural identity for Black America.

  • The Psychosis of Whiteness: The Celluloid Hallucinations of Amazing Grace and Belle Journal of Black Studies Published online before print 2016-03-21 DOI: 10.1177/0021934716638802 Kehinde Andrews, Associate Professor in Sociology Birmingham City University, Birmingham, United Kingdom Critical Whiteness studies has emerged as an academic discipline that has produced a lot of work and garnered attention in…

  • “A Escrava Isaura,” the 1875 novel by Bernardo Guimarães, was one of a number of late 19th century works of fiction in Brazil that focused on abolitionism.

  • Michele Elam: “The Souls of Mixed Folk” (NBAAS, 31/10/12) YouTube Race & Ethnicity Archive 2016-03-19 “What are you?” The question can often comes out of nowhere One can be going about her quotidian activities, or she might have just finished a meeting at work. “What are you?” The question is disorienting for most, but for…

  • “As White as Most White Women”: Racial Passing in Advertisements for Runaway Slaves and the Origins of a Multivalent Term American Studies Volume 54, Number 4, 2016 pages 73-97 Martha J. Cutter, Professor of English and Africana Studies University of Connecticut In 1731 a man named Gideon Gibson, along with several of his relatives, emigrated…

  • Good Girls Don’t Date Dead Boys: Toying with Miscegenation in Zombie Films Journal of Popular Film and Television Volume 42, Issue 4, 2014 DOI: 10.1080/01956051.2014.881772 pages 176-185 Chera Kee, Assistant Professor of English Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan Concerning in-between bodies, zombie films have a unique vantage on miscegenation. Exploring earlier films alongside contemporary romantic…