Month: May 2013

  • The Limits of Literary Realism: Of One Blood’s Post-Racial Fantasy by Pauline Hopkins Callaloo Volume 36, Number 1, Winter 2013 pages 158-177 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2013.0049 Melissa Asher Daniels, Assistant Professor of English University of Alabama, Birmingham Fiction is of great value to any people as a preserver of manners and customs—€”religious, political and social. It is…

  • A Conversation with Lawrence Hill Callaloo Volume 36, Number 1, Winter 2013 pages 5-26 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2013.0072 Winfried Siemerling, Professor of English University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada When Paul Gilroy in The Black Atlantic offered an alternative account of modernity that placed transnational, black transatlantic lives and cultures at the center, Canada was not on his…

  • The Place in Between: An Interview with Esi Edugyan Callaloo Volume 36, Number 1, Winter 2013 pages 46-51 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2013.0070 Maaza Mengiste Esi Edugyan’s 2011 Man Booker Prize finalist, Half-Blood Blues, opens with the lines, “Chip told us not to go out. Said, don’t you boys tempt the devil.” It is 1940 in Nazi-occupied Paris…

  • Jean Toomer: The Fluidity of Racial Identity Face to Face: A blog from the National Portrait Gallery Smithsonian Institution 2012-07-20 Elizabeth Brevard, Intern Catalog of American Portraits National Portrait Gallery Jean Toomer / Marjorie Content / Gelatin silver print, c. 1934 / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution ©Susan L. Sandberg An author, philosopher, and spiritual…

  • But along with collective responsibilities, we have individual responsibilities. There are some things, as black men, we can only do for ourselves. There are some things, as Morehouse Men, that you are obliged to do for those still left behind. As Morehouse Men, you now wield something even more powerful than the diploma you’re about…

  • Bullying Pulpit: Racism, Barack Obama and the Selective Call for Personal Responsibility Tim Wise, Antiracist Essayist, Author and Educator 2013-05-19 Tim Wise Sometimes, white privilege isn’t about stuff. It’s not always about better opportunities, or more money, or even greater access to those things than people of color. Sometimes, white privilege is as simple as…

  • Obama Urges Morehouse Graduates to ‘Keep Setting an Example’ The New York Times 2013-05-19 Mark Landler ATLANTA — President Obama came to Morehouse College, the alma mater of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., on Sunday to tell graduates, 50 years after Dr. King’s landmark “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington, that “laws…

  • Ellen Gallagher at Tate Modern The Telegraph 2013-05-02 Alastair Smart, Arts Editor of the Sunday Telegraph In this solid retrospective, America’s Ellen Gallagher subtly mixes pretty abstraction with reference to her black heritage, says Alastair Smart. I sometimes feel sorry for artists today. Not in the sense that I’d make a £2 monthly donation for…

  • The Forging of the Cosmic Race: A Reinterpretation of Colonial Mexico. [Book Review] The Journal of San Diego History Volume 27, Number 3 (Summer 1981) W. Michael Mathes (1936-2012), Professor of History University of San Francisco The Forging of the Cosmic Race: A Reinterpretation of Colonial Mexico. By Colin M. MacLachlan and Jaime E. Rodríguez…

  • Ellen Gallagher: AxME Tate Modern: Exhibition Bankside London SE1 9TG 2013-05-01 through 2013-09-01 Ellen Gallagher is one of the most acclaimed contemporary artists to have emerged from North America since the mid-1990s. Her gorgeously intricate and highly imaginative works are realised with a wealth of virtuoso detail and wit. This is her first major solo…