Month: January 2014

  • Editorial January 2014: On Reading Two Recent Memoirs by Afro-Germans The Collegium for African American Research (CAAR) January 2014 Gundolf Graml, Associate Professor of German and Director of German Studies Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia Two recent memoirs by German authors with an African connection emphasize that German history cannot be written without including the…

  • At age 38, Jennifer Teege happened to pluck a library book from the shelf—and discovered a horrifying fact: Her grandfather was Amon Goeth, the vicious Nazi commandant depicted in Schindler’s List. Reviled as the “butcher of Płaszów,” Goeth was executed in 1946. The more Teege learned about him, the more certain she became: If her…

  • Deutsch sein und schwarz dazu: Erinnerungen eines Afro-Deutschen [Being German and also Being Black: Memoirs of an Afro-German] Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag November 2013 200 pages Hardback ISBN: ISBN 978-3-423-26005-3 ePub ISBN: 978-3-423-42033-4 eBook ISBN: 978-3-423-42034-1 Theodor Michael Theodor Michaels Autobiografie ist so aberwitzig, dass sie erfunden sein könnte, wenn sie nicht allzu wahr wäre. Er entfaltet…

  • Growing Up Half Asian American: Curse or Gift? Asian Fortune: your source for all things asian american 2014-01-15 Tamara Treichel In this era of globalization and liberalization, being – and identifying as – biracial is becoming increasingly common. Yet only a few decades ago, unions between the races which may lead to biracial offspring were…

  • Choate Celebrates MLK Day Choate Rosemary Hall 333 Christian Street Wallingford, Connecticut 06492 (203) 697-2000 Friday, 2014-01-17, 19:30 EST (Local Time) Photo: Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni “One Drop of Love,” a multimedia solo performance by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, will be presented on Friday, January 17, at 7:30 p.m. in the Arts Center. This performance tells the…

  • Call for Biracial/Racial Ambiguity Person Perception Data The Stigma, Health, and Close Relationships Lab Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 2014-01-15 The The Stigma, Health, and Close Relationships Lab is currently conducting a systematic review of research on person construal and evaluation of biracial/mixed-race and/or racially ambiguous targets. We would like to include unpublished,…

  • Race has always been a vague and slippery concept. In the mid-eighteenth century, European naturalists such as Linnaeus, Comte de Buffon, and Johannes Blumenbach described geographic groupings of humans who differed in appearance.

  • Documentary ‘Brown Babies: The Mischlingskinder Story’ Tells Untold Stories of Bi-Racial World War II Era Children The AFRO 2014-01-15 Maria Adebola Emmy-winning journalist Regina Griffin was inspired to tell a story and that’s how her film, Brown Babies: The Mischlingskinder Story was born. A family friend, entrepreneur Doris McMillon, had told stories about growing up…

  • In 2007, Joseph Boyden, author of the bestselling novel Three Day Road and 2008 Giller Prize winner for Through Black Spruce, was invited by the Canadian Literature Centre | Centre de littérature canadienne to deliver the inaugural Henry Kreisel Lecture at the University of Alberta.

  • 10 Most Amazingly Bizarre Paintings of Obama on Etsy Houston Press Houston, Texas 2013-05-09 Jef With One F As Houston Press’ bizarre Etsy art expert, I thought I’d see how a nation of crafty lunatics would portray our commander-in-chief. The answer is somewhere between “awesomely” and “needs medication badly.” Mike and Mollie took the title…