Month: August 2013

  • “Faithfully Drawn from Real Life”: Autobiographical Elements in Frank J. Webb’s The Garies and Their Friends The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography Volume 137, Number 3 (July 2013) pages 261-300 DOI: 10.5215/pennmaghistbio.137.3.0261 Mary Maillard A resurgence of interest in Frank J. Webb’s The Garies and Their Friends—the second novel by an African American and…

  • Scholar Saw a Multicolored American Culture The New York Times 2013-08-19 Mel Watkins Albert Murray Dies at 97; Fought Black Separatism Albert Murray, an essayist, critic and novelist who influenced the national discussion about race by challenging black separatism, insisting that the black experience was essential to American culture and inextricably tied to it, died…

  • Art at Wing Luke Museum explores mixed-race heritage The Seattle Times 2013-08-19 Robert Ayers, Special to The Seattle Times The thought-provoking “War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian-American Art” exhibition is showing at the Wing Luke in Seattle through Jan. 19, 2014. “War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian-American Art,” currently at the Wing Luke Museum of…

  • Sex and Race, Volume I: Negro-Caucasian Mixing in All Ages and All Lands: The Old World J. A. Rogers (1880-1966) Helga Rogers 1941 (Ninth Edition, 1967) 302 pages ISBN-13: 978-0960229406; ISBN 10: 096022940X Table of Contents I. RACE TODAY II. WHICH IS THE OLDEST RACE? III. THE MIXING OF BLACK AND WHITE IN THE ANCIENT…

  • “I’m quite interested in thinking about that notion of the hyphen. That little thing that’s in-between. Let’s say, “Chinese-Canadian,” or “Japanese-Canadian.” I like to challenge those two poles, those two hegemonous poles who want to claim a part of me. Because I feel like I’ve lived in-between and I like the in-between.  It’s a place…

  • ‘Mixed Kids Are Always So Beautiful’ Motherlode: Adventures in Parenting The New York Times 2013-08-19 Nicole Soojung Callahan Like many other people of color, I am no stranger to awkward conversations about race. Strangers have complimented my English, remarked on how tall I am “for an Asian” and — more times than I can count…

  • A Family Tree That Includes Slaves — And Slave Owners Tell Me More National Public Radio 2013-08-15 Celeste Headlee, Host Part of our summer reading series Island Reads, highlighting authors from the Caribbean Andrea Stuart was curious about her family’s history in Barbados. And through years of careful research, she found that her bloodline includes…

  • There Is No Scientific Rationale for Race-Based Research Journal of the National Medical Association Volume 99, Number 6 (June 2007) pages 690-692 Eddie L. Hoover, Professor of Surgery State University of New York, Buffalo For centuries, the colonial governments used a combination of race and ethnic characteristics to subjugate and control people of color, and…

  • Representing Mixed Race in Jamaica and England from the Abolition Era to the Present by Sara Salih (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction Volume 25, Number 4, Summer 2013 pages 777-780 DOI: 10.1353/ecf.2013.0025 Nicole N. Aljoe, Assistant Professor of English Northeastern University Sarah Salih, Representing Mixed Race in Jamaica and England from the Abolition Era to the Present…

  • When Jim Crow Met John Bull: Black American Soldiers in World War II Britain I. B. Tauris & Co Ltd. 1987 300 pages 220 x 140cm Hardback ISBN: 9781850430391 Graham Smith An important chapter in the history of World War II is here explored for the first-time—how the arrival of the black troops strained war-time…