Day: May 14, 2013

  • 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 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? 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 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…

  • In new book, two Kentucky families discover surprising racial histories Lexington Herald-Leader Lexington, Kentucky 2011-05-15 Linda B. Blackford Freda Spencer Goble of Paintsville knew that she hailed from a proud and hardworking clan that carved a life out of the hills and hollows of frontier Johnson County. What she didn’t know was that one of…

  • Cornel West: ‘They say I’m un-American’ The Guardian 2013-05-12 Hugh Muir, Diary Editor The American academic and firebrand campaigner talks about Britain’s deep trouble, fighting white supremacy and where Obama is going wrong Cornel West, the firebrand of American academia for almost 30 years, is causing his hosts some problems. They are on a schedule…

  • A Statistical Octoroon Los Angeles Herald Volume XXIX, Number 2 (1901-10-03) page 4, columns 6-7 Source: California Digital Newspaper Collection The Average American Seven Parts White and One Part Colored The average adult American is a statistical octoroon, says Dr. Henry Gannett In Everybody’s Magazine. If the blood in the veins of all our of…

  • The Gil Gross Program with Marcia Dawkins The Gil Gross Program Talk 910, KKSF AM San Francisco, California Monday, 2013-05-13 Gil Gross, Host Gil speaks with Marcia Dawkins, author of “Clearly Invisible; Racial passing and the Color of Cultural Identity“, about the growth of our mulit-racial nation. Download the audio here.

  • Parallel Adele Third World Newsreel 2008 Color 16 minutes USA English Adele Pham, Director/Producer Two half Vietnamese documentary filmmakers, both named Adele, weave a shared narrative of mixed Asian (hapa) experiences through interviews with 7 other mixed race subjects. History, memory, and anecdotes on multiracial ethnicity are represented through archival images, super 8 film, verité,…

  • First Person: ‘We’ve made diversity our official civic religion in Leicester’ This is Leicestershire Leicester Mercury 2013-03-27 Ben Ravilious I was delighted to learn the city mayor has given the green light to Leicester’s City of Culture bid. However, I already have nagging doubts about the direction this might be taking. It’s the flogging of…