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Month: May 2012

  • Feeling Is Believing: Why Obama’s Hair Matters

    Feeling Is Believing: Why Obama’s Hair Matters Racialicious 2012-05-30 Danielle Fuentes Morgan It’s a question President Obama has undoubtedly been asked before. It’s almost a universal African American experience, except this time it was asked under different circumstances and for a different reason. “Can I touch your hair?” The photo of this moment, three-years-old at…

  • Cape Verdean identity in a land of Black and White

    Cape Verdean identity in a land of Black and White Ethnicities Volume 12, Number 3 pages 354-379 DOI: 10.1177/1468796811419599 Gene A. Fisher, Professor Emerita of Sociology University of Massachusetts, Amherst Suzanne Model, Professor Emerita of Sociology University of Massachusetts, Amherst Cape Verde is an island group off the African coast with a history of slavery.…

  • Jared Sexton, Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism [Comer Review]

    Jared Sexton, Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism [Comer Review] Black Diaspora Review Volume 3, Number 1 (2012) pages 52-53 Nandi Comer Indiana University, Bloomington Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism. By Jared Sexton. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. 345 pp. “It’s proud to be able to say that… The…

  • Call for Papers—Inaugural Issue: Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies

    Call for Papers—Inaugural Issue: Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies “Emerging Paradigms in Critical Mixed Race Studies” The Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies (JCMRS) is a peer-reviewed online journal dedicated to Critical Mixed Race Studies (CMRS). Launched in 2011, it is the first academic journal explicitly focused on Critical Mixed Race Studies. Sponsored by…

  • This Is All I Choose to Tell: History and Hybridity in Vietnamese American Literature

    This Is All I Choose to Tell: History and Hybridity in Vietnamese American Literature Temple University Press November 2010 216 pages 5.5 x 8.5 1 halftone paper ISBN: 978-1-43990-217-2 cloth ISBN: 978-1-43990-216-5 eBook ISBN: 978-1-43990-218-9 Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, Associate Professor of Asian American Studies (founder of the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN).) San Francisco State…

  • Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father and African American Literature

    Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father and African American Literature European Journal of American Studies 1, 2011, Varia Document 6 DOI: 10.4000/ejas.9232 Daniel Stein Georg-August-Universität Göttingen This article provides a series of close readings of Barack Obama’s autobiography Dreams from My Father. It places the narrative within the history of African American literature and rhetoric…

  • The Great Seducer: writings on Gilberto Freyre, from 1945 until today (O Grande Sedutor: escritos sobre Gilberto Freyre de 1945 até hoje)

    The Great Seducer: writings on Gilberto Freyre, from 1945 until today (O Grande Sedutor: escritos sobre Gilberto Freyre de 1945 até hoje) Cassará Publishing House (Blog) 2011 724 pages 16 X 23 cm ISBN: 978-85-64892-01-9 Edson Nery da Fonseca, Professor Emeritus University of Brasilia The book is the result of more than sixty years of study…

  • University of Missouri Press to Shut Down in July

    University of Missouri Press to Shut Down in July Riverfront Times St. Louis, Missouri 2012-05-25 Aimee Levitt The Post-Dispatch was not the only publishing institution in Missouri to have a bad week. Yesterday morning, Tim Wolfe, the president of the University of Missouri system, announced plans to shut down the University of Missouri Press.  The…

  • The Significance of Mixed-Race: Public Perceptions of Barack Obama’s Race and the Effect of Obama’s Race on Public Support for his Presidency

    The Significance of Mixed-Race: Public Perceptions of Barack Obama’s Race and the Effect of Obama’s Race on Public Support for his Presidency Social Science Research Network Working Paper Series 2011-08-15 55 pages DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1910209 Samuel Sinyangwe Stanford University This research paper seeks to understand white, black, and mixed-race Americans’ perceptions of President Barack Obama’s racial…

  • Author Q&A: Jessica Maria Tuccelli

    Author Q&A: Jessica Maria Tuccelli The Washington Independent Review of Books 2012-05-29 In the autumn of 1941, Amelia J. McGee, a young woman of Cherokee and Scotch-Irish descent, and an outspoken pamphleteer for the NAACP, hastily sends her daughter, Ella, alone on a bus home to Georgia in the middle of the night — a…