Month: February 2015

  • EIHS Lecture: “Partus Sequitur Ventrem: Slave Law and the History of Women in Slavery” Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies University of Michigan 1014 Tisch Hall 435 South State Street Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1003 2015-02-05, 16:00-18:00 CST (Local Time) Jennifer L. Morgan, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, History New York University In 1662, legislators in…

  • An Interview with Poet Brian Komei Dempster Hyphen: Asian America Unabridged 2015-02-02 Jeffrey Thomas Leong, San Francisco Bay Area poet; 2014 graduate of the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing program in poetry I first met Brian Komei Dempster in Winter 2000 as a student in his Kearny Street Workshop writing class, held…

  • The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era [Tejada Review] Washington Independent Review of Books 2015-01-15 Susan Tejada When a Crescent City toddler goes missing, the tensions of the post-Civil War South are exposed. Ross, Michael A., The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the…

  • The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era Oxford University Press 2014-10-14 320 Pages 30 half-tones 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches Hardcover ISBN: 9780199778805 Michael A. Ross, Associate Professor of History University of Maryland Offers a glimpse into the volatile racial world of Reconstruction era New Orleans Guides readers through…

  • Claiming Race, Identity and a Right to Education Mixed Roots Stories 2015-02-02 Briellen Griffin, Doctoral Student of sociology in Cultural and Educational Policy Studies School of Education Loyola University Chicago It is my job to think about school. Everyday, I read, write, and speak about education. I ask, and often try to answer, the big…

  • ‘One Drop’ at Cambridge Rindge & Latin The Boston Globe 2015-02-03 Meredith Goldstein, Entertainment Reporter From left: Junot Díaz, Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, and Kate Ellis. (Aram Boghosian for The Boston Globe) Actor-producer Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni brought her one-woman show, “One Drop of Love,” to the Cambridge Rindge & Latin School on Friday night. The play,…

  • Brooklyn is: Feature of the Week [Beth Consetta Rubel] Brooklyn Artistry Brooklyn, New York 2015-02-02 The latest and greatest untouched talent of the borough. Being a biracial woman from the South we wanted to know what it was like for Beth Consetta Rubel as an artist. So many things can be triggering for an artists…

  • The Indomitable Spirit of Edmonia Lewis. A Narrative Biography Esquiline Hill Press 2012 567 pages (est.) mobi ISBN: 978-1-58863-450-4 PDF ISBN: 978-1-58863-451-1 ePub ISBN: 978-1-58863-452-8 Harry Henderson Albert Henderson Edmonia Lewis was the first famous “colored sculptor” and the first to idealize her African and American Indian heritages in stone. She flourished from 1864 through…

  • Rhineland Children Arriving In The Future: Stories of Home and Exile 2015-01-20 Asoka Esuruoso & Philipp Khabo Koepsell Germany’s brief colonial period saw an increase in the community of Africans and Afro Germans in Germany. Many Black Germans were also descendants of Black Askari troops recruited from Germany’s former colonies. Thousands of these men had…

  • Evidence-based care eliminates racial disparity in colon cancer survival rates, study finds Stanford Medicine News Center 2015-01-26 Lisa Marie Potter Office of Communication & Public Affairs A new study finds that equitable delivery of evidence-based care eliminates the racial disparity in colon-cancer survival rates. For the past two decades, the National Cancer Institute has documented…