Month: September 2014

  • Defining racism in S. Korea AsiaOne 2014-09-05 The Korea Herald/Asia News Network “We apologise, but due to Ebola virus we are not accepting Africans at the moment.” This is what a bar in Itaewon, a popular area for expats and tourists in Seoul, publicly posted in front of its property last month. The statement triggered…

  • ‘Alien Citizen’ delivers a raw, moving sociological odyssey The Williams Record: The Independent Student Newspaper at WIlliams College since 1887 Williamstown, Massachusetts 2014-09-24 William Walker, Staff Writer If there’s anything that students at the College love to think about, it’s identity. Indeed, the big questions about who we are, what we want to do and…

  • Slumming and Black-and-tan Saloons: Racial Intermingling and the Challenging of Color Lines Researching Greenwich Village History Companion site to Creating Digital History (NYU GA HIST.2033) 2011-11-04 Janice Liao The mere mention of saloons immediately conjures images of people satisfying their carnal desires by imbibing large quantities of alcohol amongst a rowdy scene of drunkards. Similar…

  • The trials of being mixed race in American society The Spartan Daily: Serving San Jose State since 1934 San Jose, California 2014-09-24 Lauren Hernandez My mixed-race identity has been a cause of frustration my entire life. At first glance, one may see my fair skin and assume I am white. They would be half right.…

  • Sociology of Race and Ethnicity will publish its first issue in January 2015! Editors: David L. Brunsma, Professor of Sociology Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University David G. Embrick, Associate Professor of Sociology Loyola University, Chicago The Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, the American Sociological Association (ASA), along with Sage, will open the submission…

  • Black Legacies: Race and the European Middle Ages University Press of Florida 2014-09-02 192 pages 6×9 Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-6007-1 Lynn T. Ramey, Associate Professor of French Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee Black Legacies looks at color-based prejudice in the medieval and modern texts in order to reveal key similarities. Bringing far-removed time periods into startling…

  • Advanced Topics in Asian American Studies; The Multiracial Experience in the US (AAST498Y) University of Maryland Fall 2014 Lawrence Davis Course will focus on multiracial (“mixed race”) identity and how the experiences of multiracial people contribute to our broader understanding of racial identity and formation. Course draws on literature and research produced by and about…

  • “Am I White” by Adrienne Dawes Salvage Vanguard Theater Presents the Word Premiere of Am I White by Adrienne Dawes Performances run October 1- 18, 2014 VIP Opening Night Performance: October 4, 2014 Salvage Vanguard Theater 2803 Manor Road Austin, Texas 78722 Telephone: (512) 474-SVT-6 (474-7886) Salvage Vanguard Theater announces the third and final MADE…

  • Between the eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, countless African Americans passed as white, leaving behind families and friends, roots and community. It was, as Allyson Hobbs writes, a chosen exile, a separation from one racial identity and the leap into another. This revelatory history of passing explores the possibilities and challenges that racial indeterminacy presented to…

  • Pudd’nhead Wilson Harvard University Press February 2015 (Originally Published in 1894) 190 pages 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches 7 line illustrations Paperback ISBN: 9780674059832 Mark Twain (1835-1910) Introduction by: Werner Sollors, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of African and African American Studies Harvard University When a murder takes place…