Month: January 2014

  • The Life And Times Of Adella Hunt Logan: Educator, Mother, Wife, And Suffragist, 1863-1915 Florida State University November 2012 Daria Willis Adella Hunt Logan was a woman trapped between two worlds. She was a mulatto who suffered from the pressures and injustices of Jim Crow America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The…

  • Dr. Linda Isako Angst discusses Hapa Identity APA Compass KBOO FM Community Radio Portland, Oregon 2012-02-03 Anna Preble, Host Linda Isako Angst, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Oxford College of Emory University, Oxford, Georgia Dr. Linda Isako Angst, educator and anthropologist, and discusses ethnic identity, racially mixed identity, and stereotypes during a Hapa diversity workshop…

  • “Purple Cloud” by Jessica Huang Mu Preforming Arts presents: New Eyes Festival Staged readings of the newest script from the Asian American theater canon 2014-01-23 through 2014-01-26 The Playwrights’ Center 2301 East Franklin Avenue Minneapolis, Minnesota 55406 “Purple Cloud” by Jessica Huang Friday, 2014-01-24, 19:30 CST (Local Time) Weaving together the stories of Lee, a…

  • Going the Distance: On and off the road with Barack Obama. The New Yorker 2014-01-27 David Remnick, Editor Obama’s Presidency is on the clock. Hard as it has been to pass legislation, the coming year is a marker, the final interval before the fight for succession becomes politically all-consuming. On the Sunday afternoon before Thanksgiving,…

  • And if We Weren’t Genetically Mixed Race? Cubanow Havana, Cuba 2013-12-23 Luis Toledo Sande (Translated by Dayamí Interián) To effectively fight racism, it’s necessary to know everything about it and expose its tricks. Otherwise, we run the risk of getting trapped by them, since they are powerful, able to “innocently” camouflage themselves in the interstices…

  • Race has a hold on history, but it no longer has a place in science. The sheer instability and potential for misinterpretation render race useless as a scientific concept. Inventing new vocabularies of human diversity and inequity won’t be easy, but is necessary. Nina Jablonski, “2014 : What Scientific Idea is Ready for Retirement?,” Edge,…

  • This groundbreaking history traces the development of Germany’s black community, from its origins in colonial Africa to its decimation by the Nazis during World War II.

  • The Propaganda War in the Rhineland: Weimar Germany, Race and Occupation after World War I I. B. Tauris 2013-02-28 352 pages Hardback ISBN: 9781780763460 216 x 134mm Peter Collar Piecing together a fractured European continent after World War I, the Versailles Peace Treaty stipulated the long term occupation of the Rhineland by Allied troops. This…

  • Detecting Winnifred Eaton MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Published online: 2014-01-16 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlt078 Jinny Huh, Assistant Professor of English University of Vermont In her recent introduction to Winnifred Eaton’s Marion: The Story of an Artist’s Model (1916), Karen E. H. Skinazi explores the relationship between racial ambiguity—that of both the anonymous author and…

  • Brazil Endorses International Decade for People of African Descent Americas Quarterly: The Policy Journal for Our Hemisphere Blog 2014-01-16 Shari Wejsa On Monday, December 23, 2013, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution establishing the International Decade for People of African Descent, which will run from January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2024. The…