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Month: May 2013

  • A Black Nurse, a German Soldier and an Unlikely WWII Romance

    A Black Nurse, a German Soldier and an Unlikely WWII Romance The New York Times 2013-05-14 Alexis Clark The nurse and the soldier may never have met – and eventually married – had it not been for the American government’s mistreatment of black women during World War II. Elinor Elizabeth Powell was an African-American military…

  • Dr. Ralina Joseph and Transcending Blackness: From the New Millennium Mulatta to the Exceptional Multiracial

    Dr. Ralina Joseph and Transcending Blackness: From the New Millennium Mulatta to the Exceptional Multiracial I Mix What I Like 2013-01-11 Jared A. Ball, Host and Associate Professor of Communication Studies Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland This is part one of our discussion with Dr. Ralina Joseph about her book, Transcending Blackness: From the New…

  • What We Mean When We Say ‘Race Is a Social Construct’

    What We Mean When We Say ‘Race Is a Social Construct’ The Atlantic 2013-05-15 Ta-Nehisi Coates, Senior Editor In a world where Kevin Garnett, Harold Ford, and Halle Berry all check “black” on the census, even the argument that racial labels refer to natural differences in physical traits doesn’t hold up. Andrew Sullivan and Freddie…

  • Soledad O’Brien: ‘OK, white person, this is a conversation you clearly are uncomfortable with’

    Soledad O’Brien: ‘OK, white person, this is a conversation you clearly are uncomfortable with’ The Washington Examiner 2013-05-13 Paul Bedard Soledad O’Brien, recently yanked from her morning show “Starting Point” on CNN, plans to continue her focus on racial issues and is charging that whites are afraid of dealing with the nation’s black-white division. O’Brien,…

  • Half/Full

    Half/Full UC Irvine Law Review University of California, Irvine Law School Volume 3, Forthcoming Online: 2013-04-07 pages 101-125 Nancy Leong, Associate Professor of Law University of Denver, Sturm College of Law Research suggests that multiracial identity is uniquely malleable, and I will focus here on the significance of that malleability for mixed-Asian individuals. At various times,…

  • Lecture: What Would Be the Story of Alice and Leonard Rhinelander Today?

    Lecture: What Would Be the Story of Alice and Leonard Rhinelander Today? UC Davis Law Review University of California School of Law Volume 46, Number 4, April 2013 pages 939-960 Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Charles M. and Marion J. Kierscht Professor of Law University of Iowa On November 8, 2011, I presented this lecture as part of…

  • The Political Psychology of Personal Narrative: The Case of Barack Obama

    The Political Psychology of Personal Narrative: The Case of Barack Obama Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy Volume 10, Issue 1, December 2010 pages 182–206 DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-2415.2010.01207.x Phillip L. Hammack, Associate Professor of Psychology University of California, Santa Cruz Guided by theories of narrative identity, racial identity development, and Freire’s (1970) notion of conscientização,…

  • Self-Writing, Literary Traditions, and Post-Emancipation Identity: The Case of Mary Seacole

    Self-Writing, Literary Traditions, and Post-Emancipation Identity: The Case of Mary Seacole Biography Volume 23, Number 2, Spring 2000 pages 309-331 DOI: 10.1353/bio.2000.0009 Evelyn J. Hawthorne, Professor of English Howard University, Washington, D.C. “ . . . unless I am allowed to tell the story of my life in my own way, I cannot tell it…

  • I Found One Drop: Can I Be Black Now?

    I Found One Drop: Can I Be Black Now? The Root 2013-05-01 Jenée Desmond-Harris Race Manners: Time for a racial gut check. Has your African-American ancestor really changed anything? “I recently availed myself of my university’s online resources and did some genealogical digging about my white conservative family. It turns out that one of our…

  • Slaves In The Family with Edward Ball

    Slaves In The Family with Edward Ball Research at the National Archives and Beyond BlogTalk Radio Thursday, 2013-05-16, 21:00-22:00 EDT, (Friday, 2013-05-17, 01:00-02:00Z) Bernice Bennett, Host Edward Ball, Lecturer in English Yale University If you knew that you were a descendant of a slave- owner, would you tell anyone? If you had an opportunity to…