Month: November 2012

  • A Milestone Election Weekend Reader Hannah Arendt Center Bard College 2012-11-09 Roger Berkowitz, Associate Professor of Political Studies, Human Rights, and Philosophy; Academic Director, Hannah Arendt Center Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York The re-election of Barack Obama is a milestone. Barack Obama will always be remembered as the first black President of the United States.…

  • “Well, It Is Because He’s Black”: A Critical Analysis of the Black President in Film and Television Bowling Green State University August 2011 183 pages Phillip Lamarr Cunningham Submitted to the Graduate College of Bowling Green State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY With the election of…

  • From Kongo to Othello to Tango to Museum Shows ARTnews 2012-10-25 Robin Cembalest Jacopo da Pontormo (Jacopo Carucci), Portrait of Maria Salviati de’ Medici and Giulia de’ Medici, ca. 1539, oil on panel. THE WALTERS ART MUSEUM, BALTIMORE, ACQUIRED BY HENRY WALTERS WITH THE MASSARENTI COLLECTION, 1902 (37.596). Artists and scholars are taking increasingly nuanced…

  • Other Tongues: Mixed-Race Women Speak Out (review) [McKibbin] University of Toronto Quarterly Volume 81, Number 3, Summer 2012 pages 704-705 DOI: 10.1353/utq.2012.0140 Molly Littlewood McKibbin Other Tongues: Mixed Race Women Speak Out by Adebe De Rango-Adem and Andrea Thompson, eds.(Inanna Publications, 2010) DeRango-Adem and Thompson’s new collection of the artistic, autobiographical, and scholarly work of…

  • Colonial Proximities: Crossracial Encounters and Juridical Truths in British Columbia, 1871–1921 (review) [Allan Cho] University of Toronto Quarterly Volume 81, Number 3, Summer 2012 pages 690-691 DOI: 10.1353/utq.2012.0090 Allan Cho, Program Services Librarian University of British Columbia As part of a new collective at the University of British Columbia re-envisaging the landscape and boundaries of…

  • The Madonna of Excelsior: A Novel Picador (an imprint of Macmillan) March 2005 288 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches Paperback ISBN: 9780312423827; ISBN10: 0312423829 Zakes Mda, Professor of Creative Writing Ohio University In 1971, nineteen citizens of Excelsior in South Africa’s white-ruled Free State were charged with breaking apartheid’s Immorality Act, which forbade…

  • Should people’s ethnicity matter in their medical treatment? OnCentral Southern California Public Radio 2012-10-24 José Martinez Chances are, medical research has found that your ethnicity makes you more likely to have certain conditions or diseases. For Latinos, it’s diabetes. For black folks, it’s high blood pressure. For white people, it’s cystic fibrosis. For Asian women,…

  • Parallels to country’s racist past haunt age of Obama Cable News Network In America: You define America. What defines you? 2012-11-01 John Blake, CNN This is the second in an occasional series on issues of race, identity and politics ahead of Election Day, including a look at the optics of politics, a white Southern Democrat…

  • A Spectrum From Slaves to Saints (Art Review) The New York Times 2012-11-08 Holland Carter, Staff Art Critic “The Three Mulattoes of Esmereldas” (1599) is one of the works in “Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe,” at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. More Photos ‘African Presence in Renaissance Europe,’ at Walters Museum BALTIMORE…

  • MixedRaceStudies.org Reaches 5,000 Posts MixedRaceStudies.org 2012-11-11 Steven F. Riley MixedRaceStudies.org, called by a preeminent scholar, “the most comprehensive and objective clearinghouse for scholarly publications related to critical mixed-race theory,” and the recipient of other praise has reached its 5,000th post! Created in May 2009 by Steven F. Riley, this free online resource consists of links…