Month: November 2013

  • Many Rivers to Cross: From Black Power to the Black President The Root 2013-11-26 Peniel E. Joseph, Professor of History Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts In the sixth and final installment of his PBS series, Henry Louis Gates Jr. leads us from the black power movement to the historic election of Barack Obama. Americans have notoriously…

  • Hello World: How Nike Sold Tiger Woods The Margins (After 1989) Asian American Writer’s Workshop 2012-08-02 Hiram Perez, Assistant Professor of English Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York How did a multinational corporation like Nike appeal to diverse markets without violating the principle of colorblindness that became increasingly and insidiously sacrosanct in the U.S. in the…

  • How to Rehabilitate a Mulatto: The Iconography of Tiger Woods Chapter in East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture (pages 222-245) New York University Press May 2005 382 pages 29 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 9780814719626 Paperback ISBN: 9780814719633 Edited By: Shilpa Davé, Assistant Dean, College of Arts and Sciences; Assistant Professor of Media Studies and American Studies…

  • Who gets the last laugh, again? Africa is a Country 2013-11-18 Jessica Blatt, Assistant Professor of Political Science Marymount Manhattan College, New York, New York I enjoy seeing a smug, bearded white supremacist get his comeuppance as much as the next guy. (Though the joy of the exuberant lady sitting next to this one is…

  • Families The New York Times 2013-11-25 Natalie Angier American households have never been more diverse, more surprising, more baffling. In this special issue of Science Times, NATALIE ANGIER takes stock of our changing definition of family. Read the entire article here.

  • Yaba Blay’s (1)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race (2014) is a beautiful, first-hand look at the true complexities surrounding the ways in which societies and peoples racialize one another and the ways in which these are institutionalized.

  • Whiteness, History, and Comments about George Zimmerman Andrew Joseph Pegoda, A.B.D. 2013-07-17 Andrew Joseph Pegoda Department of History University of Houston Events and things in history frequently involve what I call the “realms of illogic.” It’s not gonna make sense. “Race” is one of these. This posting is an attempt to address how people are…

  • Race and Medicine Princeton University AAS 403 / ANT 403 (EM) Spring 2013-2014 Carolyn M. Rouse, Professor of Anthropology In 1998, then-President Clinton set a national goal that by the year 2010 race, ethnic, and gender disparities in six disease categories would be eliminated. While the agenda, called Healthy People 2010, was a noble effort,…

  • The Martinican concept of “creoleness”: A multiracial redefinition of culture. Mots Pluriels Number 7, (July 1998): Third Space and Cross-Cultural Identities—Mestissage – Tiers Espace – Identite Beverley Ormerod, Associate Professor of French University of Western Australia In the 1930s, black and coloured intellectuals from the French Caribbean colonies of Martinique, Guadeloupe and Guyane sought for…

  • All in the Family: Interracial Intimacy, Racial Fictions, and the Law California Law Review Circuit Volume 4 (November 2013) pages 179-186 D. Wendy Greene, Professor of Law Cumberland School of Law, Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama Professor Wendy Greene highlights the continued importance of analyzing interracial relationships in the framework of the law in her review…