Month: May 2014

  • Culture File – Race and the Irish Screen RTÉ Lyric FM 2014-05-15 Fin Keegan, Host Zélie Asava, Lecturer and Programme Director of Video and Film Dundalk Institute of Technology, Louth, Ireland What can the Irish horror movie tell us about attitudes to race? And can a mixed race guard [police] in an Irish crime series,…

  • Learning from the Collusions, Collisions, and Contentions with White Privilege Experienced in the United States by White Mothers of Sons and Daughters whose Race is not White Cardinal Stritch University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 2014 405 pages ATI Number: 3614469 Jennifer Lee Slye Chandler The purpose of this study was to collect and examine stories from women…

  • Can ‘Belle’ End Hollywood’s Obsession with the White Savior? The Daily Beast 2014-05-04 Keli Goff The black characters in films like ‘The Help’ and ’12 Years A Slave’ always seem to need a white knight. But the black protagonist in ‘Belle,’ a new film about racism and slavery in England, takes matters into her own…

  • Almost Free: A Story about Family and Race in Antebellum Virginia University of Georgia Press June 2012 192 pages 6 b&w photos, 1 map Trim size: 5.5 x 8.5 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8203-3229-1 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8203-3230-7 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-8203-4364-8 Eva Sheppard Wolf, Associate Professor of History San Francisco State University In Almost Free, Eva Sheppard Wolf…

  • Exploring the Political Exploitation of Blood Quantum in the U.S. Indian Country Today Media Network 2013-05-17 Vincent Schilling, Executive Vice President Schilling Media, Inc. Arica L. Coleman is an assistant professor of Black American Studies at the University of Delaware. She is African American and Native American (Rappahannock), which may help explain why she has…

  • “That the Blood Stay Pure” traces the history and legacy of the commonwealth of Virginia’s effort to maintain racial purity and its impact on the relations between African Americans and Native Americans.

  • A Portrait of Modern Britain Policy Exchange London, England 2014-05-06 100 pages ISBN: 978-1-907689-76-5 Rishi Sunak, Head of the Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) Research Unit Saratha Rajeswaran, Deputy Head of the Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) Research Unit People from ethnic minority backgrounds will make up nearly a third of the UK’s population by…

  • Beyond Biracial: When Blackness Is a Small, Nearly Invisible Fraction The Root 2014-05-12 Jenée Desmond-Harris, Senior Staff Writer and White House Correspondent In the past, these Americans would have been labeled “quadroons” or “octoroons.” Today their options are so much broader. What can they teach us about race in 2014 and in the future? Stephanie…

  • Before her untimely death in 2010, Ai, known for her searing dramatic monologues, was hailed as “one of the most singular voices of her generation” (New York Times Book Review). Now for the first time, all eight books by this essential and uniquely American poet have been gathered in one volume.

  • 2014 Independent Publisher Book Awards Results Independent Publisher May 2014 Congratulations to all of this year’s medalists and sincere thanks to the 2,500+ independent authors and publishers who participated. Even if you didn’t win a medal, know that the competition was very fierce, and that everyone involved in the independent publishing movement is a winner!…