Day: September 4, 2013

  • Race and Narrative in Italian Women’s Writing Since Unification Fairleigh Dickinson University Press July 2013 127 pages ISBN: 9781611475999 Melissa Coburn, Assistant Professor of Italian and Italian Program Director Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Race and Narrative in Italian Women’s Writing Since Unification explores racist ideas and critiques of racism in four long narratives…

  • Walking While Black in the ‘White Gaze’ The New York Times 2013-09-01 George Yancy, Professor of Philosophy Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania “Man, I almost blew you away!” Those were the terrifying words of a white police officer — one of those who policed black bodies in low income areas in North Philadelphia in the late…

  • Let’s Learn From the Past: Cumberland Posey Jr. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 2013-08-29 Michele Sneddon, History Center Communications Assistant As a standout player, manager and owner, Cumberland Willis Posey Jr. built the Homestead Grays into one of the most successful franchises in Negro League baseball history. Born on June 20, 1890, Posey grew up in a…

  • Mixed People: “Natural Bridges” to Racial Healing & Utopia? Mixed Race Radio Blog Talk Radio 2013-09-04, 16:00Z (12:00 EDT) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host Rainier Spencer, Senior Advisor to the President; Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies; Founder and Director of the Afro-American Studies Program University of Nevada, Las Vegas On today’s episode of Mixed Race Radio we will…

  • Being Mixed Race: Am I A Human Rorschach Test? Media Diversity UK: Tackling the lack of diversity in UK media and the ubiquity of whiteness 2013-09-03 Glen Chisholm Just last week I was standing at a bus stop when a gentleman; a complete stranger came and joined me. Nothing unusual about that, we then politely…