Month: January 2013

  • 6 Hilariously Failed Attempts at Making Comics More Diverse: #3. Connor Hawke, the Mixed Race (and Possibly Gay) Green Arrow Cracked Magazine 2013-01-26 Ed Johnson Since the 1970s, the DC Comics superhero Green Arrow has had sex with pretty much every female he’s been able to impress with arrow-based innuendo. So it wasn’t much of…

  • The District Court yesterday was the centre of much excitement, and as usual on such occasions, the negroes were out in full force. It was generally understood that the miscegenationists were to be placed on trial.

  • A Lot Like You: A Film by Eliaichi Kimaro USA/Tanzania 2012 55 minutes/82 minutes Eliachi Kimaro, Director (2012) WINNER, Audience Choice Award for Best Documentary: 35th Annual Asian American International Film Festival (New York) (2012) WINNER, Best Documentary: Female Eye Film Festival (Toronto) (2012) WINNER, Jury Prize for Best Documentary: 30th Annual San Francisco International…

  • Have a complicated identity? America’s future looks ‘A Lot Like You’ The Seattle Globalist: Where Seattle Meets the World. 2013-01-25 Sarah Stuteville, Cofounder “The bibimbap, is that dolsot?” asks documentary filmmaker Eli Kimaro looking up from the menu of Wabi-Sabi in Columbia City. She’s trying to gauge the authenticity of the Korean dish in question.…

  • Outlawry in Robeson County, North Carolina The Atlanta Weekly Sun For the Week Ending 1872-03-27 page 5, columns 3-5 Source: Georgia Historic Newspapers The Lowerys The extraordinary persistence of the Lowery gang in their bloody work, in Robeson county, North Carolina, demands an outline sketch of their career, for the information of many who have…

  • Your Great-Great Grandmother Wasn’t a Cherokee Indian Country Today Media Network 2013-01-25 Jay Daniels Once, at a tribal consultation meeting, Larry Echo Hawk, Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs, asked me to join him for lunch. Upon learning that I was a member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, he asked about my opinion of the…

  • The Original Slave Colony: Barbados and Andrea Stuart’s ‘Sugar in the Blood’ The Daily Beast 2013-01-24 Eric Herschthal Columbia University Barbados provided the blueprint for all future British slave settlements in the American South. Andrea Stuart talks to Eric Herschthal about how her family was entwined in the island’s tormented history. On the face of…

  • Sugar in the Blood: A Family’s Story of Slavery and Empire Knopf 2013-01-22 384 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-307-27283-6 eBook ISBN: 978-0-307-96115-0 Andrea Stuart In the late 1630s, lured by the promise of the New World, Andrea Stuart’s earliest known maternal ancestor, George Ashby, set sail from England to settle in Barbados. He fell into the…

  • Betwixt and Between: Embracing the Borderlands of My Mixed Heritage Discover Nikkei 2013-01-23 Mari L’Esperance For weeks I resisted beginning work on this essay. Then, synchronistically, I encountered two pieces at Discover Nikkei that helped me get started. The first was Nancy Matsumoto’s excellent review (December 26, 2012) of Nikkei/Hapa psychologist Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu’s latest book…

  • Clearly Invisible, by Marcia Alesan Dawkins The Christian Century: Thinking Critically. Living Faithfully. 2013-01-23 Rachel Stone The one time I visited my maternal grandfather’s house, we had planned to stay four days. I was ten and had seen my grandfather just once before in my life. I don’t recall if he ever spoke to me,…