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Month: November 2014

  • A Secret Falls From the Family Tree, and a Girl’s Identity Branches Out

    A Secret Falls From the Family Tree, and a Girl’s Identity Branches Out The New York Times 2014-11-23 Ben Kenigsberg, Film Critic ‘Little White Lie,’ a Personal Documentary About Race The documentary “Little White Lie” would be provocative simply for what it says about race and identity. The director Lacey Schwartz grew up Jewish in…

  • “People would call me mulatto all the time. My dad was like: “Don’t let people call you that. Say that you’re mixed. Say that you’re biracial.””

    “People would call me mulatto all the time. My dad was like: “Don’t let people call you that. Say that you’re mixed. Say that you’re biracial.” My parents were really careful with me. They were clear that you can’t separate out the two sides. You’d be denying half of yourself if you did.” —Amber Gray…

  • Queridos Blanquitos: The Hidden Racism of Nuestra América

    Queridos Blanquitos: The Hidden Racism of Nuestra América NACLA Report on the Americas New York, New York 2014-11-19 Ed Morales Columbia University, New York, New York In Justin Simien’s debut film Dear White People, a passing comment about Puerto Ricans exposes the contradictory status of mixed-race people in the “post-racial” Americas. There is a moment…

  • Let’s Talk About Race (in Latin@ Communities)

    Let’s Talk About Race (in Latin@ Communities) NACLA Report on the Americas New York, New York 2014-10-16 Melissa M. Valle, Ph.D. candidate Columbia University, New York, New York While many trivialize race in Latin@ communities as abstract and irrelevant, Afro-Latin@s are still fighting a definitive racial hierarchy. They say that the Devil’s greatest trick is…

  • bell hooks, Rethinking Everything, and Colorism – Hidden Power of Words Series, #13

    bell hooks, Rethinking Everything, and Colorism – Hidden Power of Words Series, #13 Andrew Joseph Pegoda, A.B.D. 2014-11-22 Andrew Joseph Pegoda Department of History University of Houston, Houston, Texas bell hooks continues to transform my thinking and understanding of all things related to critical theory and History. I have completely fallen in love with her…

  • AN OCTOROON: THE OCTOROON an essay by James Leverett

    AN OCTOROON: THE OCTOROON an essay by James Leverett The Soho Repository New York, New York 2014-04-01 James Leverett, Professor (Adjunct) of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism Yale School of Drama There is melodrama in every tragedy, just as there is a child in every adult.” –Eric Bentley, Life of the Drama A Suggested Walk I…

  • What is Dion Boucicault’s THE OCTOROON?

    What is Dion Boucicault’s THE OCTOROON? The Soho Repository New York, New York 2014-03-17 James Leverett, Professor (Adjunct) of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism Yale School of Drama Professor of Dramatic Criticism James Leverett from The Yale School of Drama joins us in this video to give context and background to Dion Boucicault’s 1859 melodrama The…

  • ‘Did Somebody Say “Mulatto”?’ Speaking Critically on Mixed Heritage

    ‘Did Somebody Say “Mulatto”?’ Speaking Critically on Mixed Heritage The Huffington Post The Blog 2014-11-21 A. B. Wilkinson, Assistant Professor of History University of Nevada, Las Vegas Photograph: Ken Tanabe One of the main characters in the award-winning film Dear White People is a mixed “black and white” college student who works to make sense…

  • Returning to an ‘Impossible’ Role

    Amber Gray on ‘An Octoroon,’ at Soho Rep

  • Racial divide: It’s a social concept, not a scientific one

    Racial divide: It’s a social concept, not a scientific one The Washington Post 2014-11-03 Nancy Szokan Most scientists agree that race is not a biological concept. As Wikipedia defines it, in an extremely lengthy and extravagantly footnoted entry that surely has been edited and re-edited many times, “Race is a social concept used to categorize…