Month: December 2014

  • 2014 National Poetry Month Poem of the Day: Fred Wah Turnstone Press Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada 2014-04-16 “Waiting for Saskatchewan,” the title poem for the book, arose out of an event that occurred in Nelson, BC on a winter night in the early ’80s. We had been anticipating an exhibition of art from Saskatchewan about to…

  • Transforming Three Sisters: A Hapa Family in Chekhov’s Modern Classic Asian American Literature: Discourses and Pedagogies Volume 3 (2012): Special Issue: Mixed Heritage Asian American Literature pages 130-146 Elizabeth Liang “All right, let’s agree that this town is backward and vulgar, and let’s suppose now that out of all its thousands of  inhabitants there are…

  • In 1963, James Baldwin wrote two essays that examined the role of race and racism in the history of America. Published in The New Yorker, Baldwin’s first essay, written in the form of a letter to his fourteen-year-old nephew on the 100th anniversary of Emancipation explained “the crux of [his] dispute with [his] country”…

  • The Half Has Never Been Told with Edward E. Baptist, Ph.D. Research at the National Archives and Beyond BlogTalk Radio Thursday, 2014-12-18 21:00 EST (Friday, 2014-12-19, 02:00Z) Bernice Bennett, Producer and Host Historian Edward E. Baptist reveals in The Half Has Never Been Told, the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove…

  • Racial divisions still require full attention The Daily News Journal Murfreesboro, Tennessee 2014-12-01 Editorial Board Harpers Ferry…Montgomery…Little Rock…Birmingham…Selma…Ferguson… Despite some optimism that the United States had evolved into a “post-racial” era, particularly with the election of a black president, events in Ferguson, Missouri, continue to reinforce the reality of a racial divide in this country.…

  • How can you identify as Irish on the census if you are not white? Manchester Policy Blogs: Ethnicity Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity University of Manchester, United Kingdom 2014-11-27 Lindsey Garratt, Research Associate The census allows people to identify as Irish only if they are also white. What about the growing number of ethnic minority…

  • We Need to Talk about Race Sociology Volume 48, Number 6 (December 2014) pages 1107-1122 DOI: 10.1177/0038038514521714 Bethan Harries, Research Associate Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity University of Manchester, United Kingdom It is not easy to name racism in a context in which race is almost entirely denied. Despite a recent focus on the ‘silencing’…

  • Pictures made in the ’60s by a young photographer, Joo Myung Duck, depict the mixed-race children of foreign servicemen and Korean women

  • Mayor Bill De Blasio Speaks On Eric Garner, NYPD, And More On Ebro In The Morning [AUDIO] HOT 97, WQHT 97.1 FM New York, New York 2014-12-04 Ebro Darden, Co-Host Peter Rosenberg, Co-Host Laura Stylez, Co-Host It’s an emotional time in NYC and across the nation after a grand jury decided to not indict NYPD…

  • On White Supremacy and Why Body Cameras Are Not Enough One Drop of Love 2014-12-03 Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni I am so hopeful about the young people making their voices heard and committing their time and efforts to making real change around racism and police brutality (if you’re on Twitter, search #BlackLivesMatter to get to know…