Month: January 2015

  • “The Christened Mulatresses”: Euro-African Families in a Slave-Trading Town The William and Mary Quarterly Volume 70, Number 2, April 2013 pages 371-398 DOI: 10.5309/willmaryquar.70.2.0371 Pernille Ipsen, Assistant Professor Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, Department of History University of Wisconsin, Madison “MULATRESSE Lene”—or Lene Kühberg, as she is also called in the Danish sources—grew up…

  • CMRS Mixed-Race Irish Film Keynote Links Mixed Roots Stories 2015-01-11 Zélie Asava, Lecturer and Joint-Programme Director of Video and Film Dundalk Institute of Technology, Louth, Ireland Following my keynote on mixed representations in contemporary Irish cinema and television at the 2014 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference, here are some links to the films discussed… View all…

  • Examining five generations of marriages between African women and European men in a Gold Coast slave trading port, “Daughters of the Trade” uncovers the vital role interracial relationships played in the production of racial discourse and the increasing stratification of the early modern Atlantic world.

  • Reflections on Black German History Arriving In The Future: Black German Stories of Home and Exile 2015-01-10 Asoka Esuruoso & Philipp Khabo Koepsell “Unsere Geschichte nicht erst nach 1945 begann. Vor unseren Augen stand unsere Vergangenhait, die eng verknupft ist mit der kolonialien und nationalsozialistischen deutschen Geschichte.” Our history did not begin after 1945. Before…

  • Carl N. Degler, Scholarly Champion of the Oppressed in America, Dies at 93 The New York Times 2015-01-10 Sam Roberts, Urban Affairs Correspondent For four decades, as a Stanford University scholar, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and a commentator who envisioned a future that did not repeat the mistakes of the past, Carl N. Degler endeavored…

  • Tracking the First Americans National Geographic January 2015 Glenn Hodges, Staff Writer New finds, theories, and genetic discoveries are revolutionizing our understanding of the first Americans. The first face of the first Americans belongs to an unlucky teenage girl who fell to her death in a Yucatán cave some 12,000 to 13,000 years ago. Her…

  • Naia Reborn: See the Surprising Face of a First American NBC News 2015-01-05 Alan Boyle, Digital’s Science Editor Timothy Archibald / National Geographic Researchers and artists have reconstructed the face of a teenage girl who lived 12,000 years ago in Mexico, and it’s not the kind of face a person might typically associate with Native…

  • Women in TV 2015: Tracee Ellis Ross in ‘black-ish’ Elle 2015-01-08 Seth Plattner, Culture Editor This article appears in the February 2015 issue of ELLE magazine. Clones and copywriters. Journalists and sex scientists. Cult survivors and carnival acts. These actors fearlessly take on roles that are all over the map. So what do they have…

  • Say It Loud, I’m Coloured and I’m Proud The Root 2013-10-08 Lindsay Johns Not black, not African: One man says it’s not easy being “Coloured” in South Africa. Editor’s note: The spelling of the ethnic term “Coloured,” used within the context of South African history and culture, reflects the writer’s preference. (The Root) — I…

  • To heal world, show solidarity with Jews of color, too J.: the Jewish news weekly of Northern California San Francisco, California 2015-01-08 Kim Carter Martinez Oakland, California My name is Kim. I am black, I am Jewish, and my life matters. For the last few months, our country has seen a movement growing from a…