Month: May 2011

  • Plessy and Ferguson unveil plaque today marking their ancestors’ actions New Orleans Times-Picayune 2009-02-11 Katy Reckdahl Today, Plessy versus Ferguson becomes Plessy and Ferguson, when descendants of opposing parties in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court segregation case stand together to unveil a plaque at the former site of the Press Street Railroad Yards. Standing behind…

  • Bill Moyers interview with Patricial Willilams and Melissa Harris-Lacewell Bill Moyers Journal 2009-01-23 Bill Moyers, Host Patricia Williams, James L. Dohr Professor of Law Columbia University Melissa Harris-Lacewell (Harris-Perry), Associate Professor of Politics and African American Studies Princeton University Bill Moyers sits down with Columbia law professor and Nation columnist Patricia Williams and Princeton politics…

  • Race, Ethnicity, and Difference in a Contemporary Carioca Pop Music Scene Diagonal: Journal of the Center for Iberian and Latin American Music Volume 6 (2010) [Rethinking Race and Ethnicity in Brazilian Music (c1600-Present)] 16 pages Frederick Moehn, Assistant Professor of Music; Affiliate, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center Africana Studies Stony Brook University, State University…

  • Petitioning subjects: miscegenation in Okinawa from 1945 to 1952 and the crisis of sovereignty Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Volume 11, Issue 3 (2010) pages 355-374 DOI: 10.1080/14649373.2010.484172 Annmaria Shimabuku, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature University of California, Riverside This paper tells a story about miscegenation between US military personnel and Okinawan women from 1945-1952, which includes…

  • For the first time, blacks outnumber whites in Brazil Miami Herald 2011-05-24 Taylor Barnes, Special to the Miami Herald Brazilians are no longer reluctant to admit being black or ‘pardo,’ experts said. RIO DE JANEIRO—In the past decade, famously mixed-race Brazilians either became prouder of their African roots, savvier with public policies benefiting people of…

  • Hidden in plain sight: defying juridical racialization in Rhinelander v. Rhinelander Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies Volume 1, Issue 4 (2004) Pages 313-334 DOI: 10.1080/1479142042000270458 Nadine Ehlers, Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies Georgetown University This article examines the intersectionality of law and race to argue that law, in its broadest understanding, has played a…

  • Barack Obama as the post-racial candidate for a post-racial America: perspectives from Asian America and Hawai’i Patterns of Prejudice Volume 45, Issue 1 & 2  (Special Issue: Obama and Race) (2011) Pages 133-153 DOI: 110.1080/0031322X.2011.563159 Jonathan Y. Okamura, Professor of Ethnic Studies University of Hawai’i Okamura reviews the 2008 US presidential campaign and the election of Barack Obama…

  • ‘Black Is’ and ‘Black Ain’t’: Performative Revisions of Racial ‘Crisis’ Culture, Theory and Critique Volume 47, Issue 2 (2006) Pages 149-163 DOI: 10.1080/14735780600961619 Nadine Ehlers, Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies Georgetown University Race is rigorously policed through, and predicated on, a crisis of maintaining a claim to supposed racial ontology. The language of crisis…

  • Retroactive phantasies: discourse, discipline, and the production of race Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture Volume 14, Issue 3 (2008) Pages 333-347 DOI: 10.1080/13504630802088219 Nadine Ehlers, Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies Georgetown University The present inquiry considers how the practice and notion of race can be figured as…

  • Prologue: the riddle of race Patterns of Prejudice Volume 45, Issue 1 & 2 (Special Issue: Obama and Race) (2011) Pages 4-14 DOI: 10.1080/0031322X.2011.563141 Emily Bernard, Associate Professor of English and ALANA [African Americans, Latinos/as, Asian Americans and Native Americans] US Ethnic Studies University of Vermont James Vellacott, ‘President Obama shakes the hand of PC…