Month: May 2013

  • If we’re going to play race games let’s do it scientifically. For example, if you’re black that’s meaningless unless you specify Bantu, Hutu/Tutsi, San, or any number of other lineages within Africa. Africa has the biggest human variety in the world.  Obama looks totally different from the rest of the Black Caucus; it’s because he…

  • ‘Las Caras Lindas’: To Be Black And Puerto Rican In 2013 Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2013-05-25 Jasmine Garsd I am a black man Who was born café con leche I sneaked into a party, to which I had not been invited. And I got kicked out. They threw…

  • Arthur Wharton: The first Black Footballer BBC Tyne Culture October 2003 BBC Over 100 years before Dyer, Jenas and Ameobi, the North East had the UK’s first professional black League player. Meet the legendary Arthur Wharton. Arthur Wharton was born on 28 October 1865 in Accra, formerly the Gold Coast, now capital of Ghana, West…

  • The Joys and Challenges of Becoming a Transracial Family Through Adoption Your Adoption Coach with Kelly Ellison 2013-04-20 Kelly Ellison, Host If you are considering adopting a child of a different culture or race than your family, or you are already a transracial family formed through adoption, don’t miss this show. Our host this week…

  • Differences give mixed-heritage students a common bond The Los Angeles Times 2013-05-27 Larry Gordon Increasing numbers of college campus clubs give voice to those who don’t fit into the traditional perceptions of race. No matter what their ancestry or their skin color, many members of UCLA’s Mixed Student Union say they have repeatedly been asked…

  • Casta Painting: Art, Race and Identity in Colonial Mexico (HI972) University of Warwick Coventry, England Spring 2013 Rebecca Earle, Professor of History This module explores the distinctive vision of colonial Mexico purveyed via the artistic genre known as the casta painting. Casta paintings depict the outcomes of different types of inter-ethnic mixing, and often come…

  • The Art of Conversation: Eighteenth-Century Mexican Casta Painting SHIFT: Graduate Journal of Visual and Material Culture Issue 5, 2012 25 pages Mey-Yen Moriuchi Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania Traditionally, casta paintings have been interpreted as an isolated colonial Mexican art form and examined within the social historical moment in which they emerged. Casta paintings…

  • Blacks in Colonial Spanish Texas Texas State Historical Association: A Digital Gateway to Texas History 2013 Jesús F. de la Teja, Jerome H. and Catherine E. Supple Professor of Southwestern Studies and Regents’ Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos From the initial encounters between the Old and New Worlds following Christopher Columbus’s voyages…

  • At Peace With Many Tribes The New York Times 2013-05-19 Carol Kino HUDSON, N.Y. — One sunny afternoon early this month Jeffrey Gibson paced around his studio, trying to keep track of which of his artworks was going where. Luminous geometric abstractions, meticulously painted on deer hide, that hung in one room were about to…