Month: January 2013

  • Family Secrets by Deborah Cohen: review The Telegraph 2013-01-29 Judith Flanders Judith Flanders delves into Deborah Cohen’s ‘Family Secrets‘ As former News of the World journalist Paul McMullan put it so memorably at the Leveson Inquiry, “Privacy is for paedos”. In part, this was no more than a tabloid journalist using words carelessly. If he…

  • Harry L. Carrico, Virginia Supreme Court justice, dies at 96 The Washington Post 2013-01-28 Martin Weil Harry L. Carrico, who sat for 42 years on the Virginia Supreme Court and wrote a decision on interracial marriage that was overruled by the U.S. Supreme Court in what was regarded as a civil rights milestone, died Sunday…

  • When Half is Whole: Understanding Mixed Race Identities Stanford University, Cypress North Tresidder Union 459 Lagunita 2013-02-01, 12:00 PST (Local Time) Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, Consulting Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine & Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity will discuss identity development in persons of mixed racial and national backgrounds.  This topic has particular appeal to…

  • I think it’s important for everyone to know that neither racism nor race are stable or natural. Racism metastasizes and changes over time, changing the ways that race is thought about and implemented in the US. For the last few decades, the Census has been one way to try to observe and track the symptoms…

  • Anti-Miscegenation Movement Columbus Enquirer-Sun Columbus, Georgia 1886-09-24 page 5, column 3 Source: Digital Library of Georgia Organization In Louisiana to Prevent the Intermarriage of Whites and Blacks New Orleans. September 20.—A practical movement has been inaugurated in Bossier parish, in this state, for the abolition of miscegenation. There have been during the past year or…

  • Intertextual Links: Reading Uncle Tom’s Cabin in James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man College Literature Volume 40, Number 1, Spring 2013 pages 121-138 DOI: 10.1353/lit.2013.0004 Robin Miskolcze, Associate Professor of English Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California Though literary critics of James Weldon Johnson’s 1912 The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man convincingly…

  • Yes We Can? White Racial Framing and the Obama Presidency, 2nd Edition Routledge 292 pages 2012-12-17 Pages: 296 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-64536-2 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-64538-6 Adia Harvey Wingfield, Assistant Professor of Sociology Georgia State University Joe Feagin, Ella C. McFadden Professor of Sociology Texas A & M University The first edition of this book offered one of…

  • Beyond Selma-to-Stonewall The New York Times 2013-01-27 By including gay rights in the arc of the struggle for civil rights — the road “through Seneca Falls and Selma and Stonewall” — President Obama linked his presidency to ending antigay discrimination and underscored the legal wrong of denying gay people the freedom to marry.  “Our journey…

  • With Obama, not a post-racial nation, but something more complex The Washington Post 2013-01-21 Marc Fisher, Staff Writer The huge oil painting propped up on a bridge table at 13th and F streets NW was arresting enough to stop people even as they hurried toward the Mall. There they were, heroes of black America, Malcolm…

  • (1)NE DROP: Fact, Fiction, or Fate? Drexel University James E. Marks Intercultural Center (Lower Level) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Monday, 2013-02-04, 17:00-19:00 EST (Local Time) Africana Studies and the Office of Equality & Diversity present (1)NE DROP: Fact, Fiction, or Fate? featuring Dr. Yaba Blay, artistic director of the (1)NE DROP PROJECT and assistant teaching professor of…