Month: June 2014

  • “He [Herb Jeffries] told me he had to make this decision about whether he should try to pass as white,” the jazz critic Gary Giddins recalled in an interview for this obituary. “He said: ‘I just knew that my life would be more interesting as a black guy. If I’d chosen to live my life…

  • Thanks, Belle, it’s nice to see a face like mine on screen The Guardian (The Observer) 2014-06-07 Ashley Clark In giving top billing to Gugu Mbatha-Raw, the film Belle makes a real contribution to raising awareness of the mixed-race experience My heart leaps whenever I see the poster for Amma Asante’s new film, Belle, high…

  • Black In The Dominican Republic: Denying Blackness HuffPost Live The Huffington Post 2014-06-10 Marc Lamont Hill, Host In Latin America and Caribbean countries like the Dominican Republic many deny being of African decent, despite 90 percent of the population possessing black ancestry. Where has the blackness gone in the region? Guests: Biany Perez (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)…

  • One Drop of Love – a performance by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni at the Brooklyn Historical Society Brooklyn Historical Society Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations 2014-06-12, 19:00 EDT (Local Time) Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations and the Brooklyn Historical Society is delighted to host One Drop of Love, a multimedia solo performance by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni that incorporates…

  • The Perceptions of Race That Hinge on Stress The Atlantic 2014-06-09 Olga Khazan, Associate Editor A new study found that when resources were scarce, white people had different definitions of “black” and were less generous toward people with darker skin tones than toward people with lighter skin. The Labor Department said on Friday that employers…

  • Economic scarcity alters the perception of race Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Published online before print on 2014-06-09 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1404448111 Amy R. Krosch New York University David M. Amodio, Associate Professor of Psychology and Neural Science New York University Significance Racial disparities on socioeconomic indices expand dramatically…

  • Galileo Wept: A Critical Assessment of the Use of Race in Forensic Anthropology Transforming Anthropology Volume 9, Issue 2 (July 2000) pages 19–29 DOI: 10.1525/tran.2000.9.2.19 Diana Smay Emory University George Armelago, Goodrich C. White Professor of Anthropolgy (1936-2014) Emory University Anthropology has been haunted by the misuse of the race concept since its beginnings. Although…

  • World Cup Racism Undercuts Brazil ‘We Are Equal’ Campaign Bloomberg News 2014-05-30 Tariq Panjq Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Anna Edgerton Brasilia, Brazil It was just a regular evening of monkey noises and racial slurs for Brazilian soccer referee Marcio Chagas. Then he left to go home. As he entered the parking lot after overseeing the…

  • When One Of New York’s Glitterati Married A ‘Quadroon’ Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2014-06-07 Theodore R. Johnson III Coverage of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian’s recent nuptial ceremony was only remarkable in what most reporters left out: he’s black, and she isn’t. The generalized lack of interest in…

  • What Is Your Race? For Millions Of Americans, A Shifting Answer Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2014-06-09 Gene Demby, Lead Blogger Race is a much more elastic concept than we tend to acknowledge. American history has seen lots of immigrant groups that were the targets of suspicion and even…