Month: June 2013

  • One Drop of Love Hollywood Fringe Festival L.A.’s Largest Celebration of the Performing Arts 2013-06-13 through 2013-06-30 Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, Playwright, Producer, Actress, Educator Jillian Pagan, Director Produced by: Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Chay Carter Performances: Friday 2013-06-21, 14:30 PDT (Local Time) Lounge Theatre 6201 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles, California Friday 2013-06-28, 16:15…

  • The term ‘black Welsh’ remains for me a white person’s concept used to deny me my own experience of racial oppression (the Welsh themselves, are an oppressed and colonised people). ‘Black Welsh’ is not an identity; on the contrary, it is a duality and a contradiction. Perhaps this explains to some extent the high incidence…

  • There is No There There: Women and Intermarriage in the Southwestern Borderlands Common-Place A Common Place, An Uncommon Voice Volume 13, Number 3, Spring 2013 Amanda Taylor-Montoya Amanda Taylor-Montoya is an independent scholar living in southern New Mexico. Borderlands are fuzzy, slippery, ambiguous places. Whether imagined as a geographic region straddling an international border, “the…

  • Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White Basic Books 2002 416 pages 5.3 x 1.1 x 8 inches Paperback ISBN: 9780465006403; ISBN-10: 046500640X Frank H. Wu, Chancellor & Dean University of California, Hastings College of Law Writing in the tradition of W. E. B. Du Bois, Cornel West, and others who confronted the “color…

  • She was a black woman, and she flouted convention. In an age that put ladies in the parlor and preferred them to be seen and not heard, she was nursing the British wounded, not in hospital wards with Florence Nightingale but on the Crimean battlefields—and off them, she was running a restaurant and hotel. She…

  • Facing up to the Failure of “Racial Democracy” in Brazil Planète Afrique: Articles on Africa and the African Diaspora Written by Hishaam Aidi for Various Magazines First published: 2001-11-28 Hishaam Aidi, Lecturer in Discipline of International and Public Affairs Columbia University What do the Brazilians who call themselves “prieto,” “pardo” and “mestico” have in common?…

  • The Law Could Make You Rich Common-Place A Common Place, An Uncommon Voice Extra Issue: Volume 13, Number 3.5 (June 2013) Jared Hardesty Department of History Boston College Jared Hardesty is a PhD candidate in history at Boston College and is currently writing a dissertation on slavery, freedom, and unfreedom in eighteenth-century Boston Julie Winch,…

  • More Talk Radio on 06/17/13 [with Professor Greg Carter] More Talk Radio KBOO Community Radio Portland, Oregon 2013-06-17, 15:00-16:00Z, 08:00-09:00 PDT (Local Time) The United States of the United Races: A Utopian History of Racial Mixing Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod interview Greg Carter about his new book “The United States of the United…

  • Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of South Africa, the United States, and Brazil Cambridge University Press December 1997 412 pages 228 x 152 mm Paperback ISBN: 9780521585903 Hardback ISBN: 9780521584555 Anthony W. Marx, President and CEO New York Public Library In this bold, original and persuasive book, Anthony W. Marx provocatively links the construction…

  • In Buenos Aires, Researchers Exhume Long-Unclaimed African Roots The Washington Post 2005-05-05 Monte Reel BUENOS AIRES — Their disappearance is one of Argentina’s most enduring mysteries. In 1810, black residents accounted for about 30 percent of the population of Buenos Aires. By 1887, however, their numbers had plummeted to 1.8 percent. So where did they…