Month: January 2010

  • Greying, blue-eyed Walter White, for 16 years executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, has a skin so light that he frequently has to explain that he is, in deed, a Negro. Last week, in the Saturday Review of Literature, Propagandist White talked openly about a subject many Negroes are…

  • Africa in Mexico: A Repudiated Heritage/África en México: una herencia repudiada Edwin Mellen Press 2007 140 pages ISBN10: 0-7734-5216-8; ISBN13: 978-0-7734-5216-9 Marco Polo Hernández Cuevas, Asssociate Professor of Spanish North Carolina Central University This study explores the African presence in Mexico and the impact it has had on the development of Mexican national identity over…

  • The Africanization of Mexico from the Sixteenth Century to the Present Edwin Mellen Press 2010 212 pages ISBN10: 0-7734-3781-9; ISBN13: 978-0-7734-3781-4 Marco Polo Hernández Cuevas, Asssociate Professor of Spanish North Carolina Central University This work is an Afrocentric analysis that subscribes to the notion that there is one human race of multiple ethnicities. It acknowledges…

  • The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965. They mandated de jure racial segregation in all public facilities, with a supposedly “separate but equal” status for black Americans. In reality, this led to treatment and accommodations that were usually inferior to those provided for white…

  • Half vs. Double: Hybrid Mathematics Column: Little Momo in the Big Apple Discover Nikkei: Japanese Migrans and Their Descendants 2008-03-28 Simone Momoye Fujita My mother is Japanese American, and my father is African American. According to this equation, most would assert that this fact makes me exactly one-half Asian and one-half Black, right? I whole-heartedly…

  • Exploring the Realities of Hapa-ness – Curtiss Rooks Revelations & Resilience: Exploring the Realities of Hapa-ness Japanese American National Museum Presented by Discover Nikkei 2008-04-12 Curtiss Takada Rooks Loyola Marymount University Introduction: Revelations and Resilience Part 1 Part 2

  • The Perils of Compartmentalization Columbia Daily Spectator New York, New York Friday, 2008-09-26 Dennis Yang Teachers College When I arrived from California as an incoming graduate student at Teachers College, one of the first things I attempted to find was a large-scale supermarket—a task that proved to be more difficult than I had anticipated. Without…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Melissa Harris-Lacewell CAAS News Center for African American Studies Princeton University Spring 2008 Newsletter Pages 6-7 Dara-Lyn Shrager Melissa Harris-Lacewell smiles broadly when asked about Senator Barack Obama’s run for the democratic nomination for President. She is clearly a fan of both the man and his campaign.  As a former Chicagoan, who lived…

  • Princeton Professor tweets about  her views on mixed-race identity (Interview with Melissa Harris-Lacewell) Mixed Child: The Pulse of the Mixed Community 2009-07-29 Jeff Eddings MSNBC contributor, Princeton University’s Associate Professor of Politics & African American Studies and author of Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought Melissa Harris-Lacewell had a frank  discussion…

  • On the Borders of Love and Power: Families and Kinship in the Intercultural American West Saturday, 2010-02-27, 08:15 – 16:30 CST (Local Time) Dallas Hall, McCord Auditorium, 3rd Floor Southern Methodist University 3225 University Blvd. Dallas, TX 75205 Announcing the 2009-10 Annual Public Symposium Co-sponsored by: The Center for the Southwest at the University of…