Month: June 2010

  • “Not White Enough, Not Black Enough: Racial Identity in the South African Coloured Community” is the first systematic study of Coloured identity, its history, and its relevance to South African national life.

  • The Law: Anti-Miscegenation Statutes: Repugnant Indeed Time Magazine 1967-06-23 Judge Leon Bazile looked down at Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter Loving as they stood before him in 1959 in the Caroline County, Va. courtroom. “Almighty God,” he intoned, “created the races white, black, yellow, Malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. The…

  • The Transformation of U.S. Racial and Ethnic Identities in Global Media Contact Spaces of American Culture: LOCALIZING GLOBAL PHENOMENA 36th International Conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies (AAAS) Department of American Studies, University of Graz 2009-10-22 through 2009-10-25 Shelleen Greene, Assistant Professor of Digital Studio Practice and Theory University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Through…

  • ART & DESIGN FACULTY – Shelleen Greene awarded IRE Faculty Diversity Research Award Peck School of The Arts News University of Wisconsin, Madison 2010-06-15 The award will allow Assistant Professor Shelleen Greene to complete her book project, Equivocal Subjects: Mixed-Race Identity in the Italian Cinema. The book examines the representation of mixed-race subjects of Italian…

  • Even discussing ‘angry black man’ stereotype provokes anger CNN 2010-06-16 John Blake (CNN) — Here are some sound bites from the post-racial era: “The long legged Mac Daddy in the White House is angry this morning. Seems to me we should change the name to the Black House for the next few years. Your news…

  • U.S. far from an interracial melting pot CNN 2010-06-16 Daniel T. Lichter, Ferris family professor in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management, and Professor of Sociology Cornell University Ithaca, New York (CNN)—According to a recent report by the Pew Research Center, one of every seven new marriages in 2008 was interracial or interethnic—the highest…

  • “A Black Girl Should Not be With a White Man”: Sex, Race, and African Women’s Social and Legal Status in Colonial Gabon, c. 1900–1946 Journal of Women’s History Volume 22, Number 2, Summer 2010 E-ISSN: 1527-2036 Print ISSN: 1042-7961 DOI: 10.1353/jowh.0.0140 Rachel Jean-Baptiste, Associate Professor of African History University of California, Davis This article reviews…

  • Washington College students awarded summer fellowships The Star Democrat Easton, Maryland 2010-06-02 CHESTERTOWN, MARYLAND Six Washington College students were awarded Comegys Bight Summer Research Fellowships supported by the Comegys Bight Fellows Program, which invites scholars to design independent research projects and internships built around their particular interests. These projects include field research on the ghost…

  • Born to a Danish seamstress and a black West Indian cook in one of the Western Hemisphere’s most infamous vice districts, Nella Larsen (1891-1964) lived her life in the shadows of America’s racial divide. She wrote about that life, was briefly celebrated in her time, then was lost to later generations–only to be rediscovered and…

  • What’s at stake in claims of “post-racial” media? FlowTV Department of Radio, Television, and Film at the University of Texas at Austin 2010-06-03 Mary C. Beltrán, Associate Professor of Media Studies University of Texas, Austin Tracy Morgan, comedic actor best known for his role as comedic performer Tracy Jordan on the NBC series 30 Rock…