Month: April 2015

  • One-Dropping and Multi-Dropping: Embracing Contradictions of the Racialized Self (A Personal Journey) Musings of a Mixed Race Feminist: Random diatribes from a mixed race feminist scholar. Donna J. Nicol, Associate Professor Women & Gender Studies California State University, Fullerton My exploration of my mixed race identity began in my early 20’s after an incident I…

  • “There is nothing ‘black’ about rioting”: Actor Jesse Williams unloads on Baltimore critics in passionate Twitter essay Salon 2015-04-28 Joanna Rothkopf, Assistant Editor (Credit: DFree via Shutterstock) The “Grey’s Anatomy” actor wrote about the prevelance of rioting throughout history On Monday evening, as Baltimore was rocked by violent and nonviolent protests alike, actor Jesse Williams,…

  • Dragons in the Land of the Condor: Writing Tusán in Peru University of Arizona Press 2014 264 pages 6.00 x 9.00 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8165-3111-0 Ignacio López-Calvo, Professor of Latin American Literature University of California, Merced Foreword by Eugenio Chang-Rodríguez, Professor Emeritus Building on his 2013 study on Nikkei cultural production in Peru, in Dragons in…

  • Brian Bantum on Redeeming Mulatto Homebrewed Christianity 2014-08-17 Bo Sanders Brian Bantum teaches theology at Seattle Pacific University out in the mighty Northwest. This spring when he and Callid were both at the Christian Leadership Forum of FTE they sat down to talk about Brian’s book Redeeming Mulatto: A Theology of Race and Christian Hybridity.…

  • President Obama Condemns Both the Baltimore Riots and the Nation’s ‘Slow-Rolling Crisis’ The New York Times 2015-04-28 Julie Hirschfeld Davis, White House Correspondent Matt Apuzzo WASHINGTON — President Obama responded with passion and frustration on Tuesday to the violence that has rocked Baltimore and other cities after the deaths of young black men in confrontations…

  • “A Chosen Exile” by History Professor Allyson Hobbs, has won two prizes from the Organization of American Historians Stanford University Department of History Palo Alto, California 2015-04-20 “A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life” by History Professor Allyson Hobbs has won two prizes from the Organization of American Historians: the Frederick Jackson…

  • Will Police Killings of Blacks be the Defining Crisis of the Obama Presidency? NewBlackMan (in Exile) 2015-04-24 Mark Anthony Neal, Host and Professor of African & African American Studies Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Duke University University Sociologist Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, author of the classic Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality…

  • Embracing otherness, embracing myself TedGlobal July 2011 00:13:55 Thandie Newton Actor Thandie Newton tells the story of finding her “otherness” — first, as a child growing up in two distinct cultures, and then as an actor playing with many different selves. A warm, wise talk, fresh from stage at TEDGlobal 2011.

  • Trevor Noah’s World The Atlantic 2015-04-05 Douglas Foster, Associate Professor of Journalism Medill School of Journalism Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois What makes The Daily Show’s new host unique—according to South African comics CAPE TOWN, South Africa—When word circulated on Monday that standup comic Trevor Noah had been chosen to succeed Jon Stewart as host of…

  • Ticking the box: Finding a place for mixed race The Cambridge Student University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom 2015-04-25 Chase Caldwell Smith In my life, I have been told many things – that I “look like a bit of a foreigner” or that “I couldn’t tell you were part-Asian before – I can definitely see…