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Month: July 2015

  • The black president some worried about has arrived

    The black president some worried about has arrived The Washington Post 2015-07-15 Janell Ross, Reporter There’s this thing people sometimes say down South. So-and-so is “acting brand new.” Sometimes that’s a reference to people behaving like they don’t know old friends and family — that they have evolved past their old crowd. Sometimes that’s Southern-speak…

  • In The Writer’s Room, One Woman Quietly Makes Late Night History

    In The Writer’s Room, One Woman Quietly Makes Late Night History Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2015-07-12 Eric Deggans, TV Critic How do you write jokes for a TV comedy about race and culture when there are riots over how police treat black suspects, and a gunman just shot…

  • The sweetness of forbidden fruit: Interracial daters are more attractive than intraracial daters

    The sweetness of forbidden fruit: Interracial daters are more attractive than intraracial daters Journal of Social and Personal Relationships Volume 32, Number 5 (August 2015) pages 650-666 DOI: 10.1177/0265407514541074 Karen Wu Department of Psychology University of California, Irvine Chuansheng Chen, Chancellor’s Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior and Education University of California, Irvine Ellen Greenberger,…

  • Black Dancers, White Ballets

    Black Dancers, White Ballets The New York Times 2015-07-15 Laurie A. Woodard New York University MISTY COPELAND’S elevation to principal dancer with American Ballet Theater is a tremendous accomplishment for her as a ballet dancer and as an African-American ballerina. Neither her talent nor her achievement should be underestimated. But even as she reaches the…

  • The Global African – Mexican Afro-descendants

    The Global African – Mexican Afro-descendants The Global African 2014-12-03 Bill Fletcher, Host Randal Archibold, Bureau Chief for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean The New York Times (Author of the article “Negro? Prieto? Moreno? A Question of Identity for Black Mexicans”) William Loren Katz Author of: Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage Each week on…

  • CUNY Exhibition Documents Lives of Black Africans in Early Dominican Republic

    CUNY Exhibition Documents Lives of Black Africans in Early Dominican Republic The New York Times 2015-07-13 Sandra E. Garcia Scholars at the City University of New York are using clues left in 16th-century manuscripts and Spanish records to track the lives of the earliest black Africans in the Dominican Republic. An exhibition now on view…

  • Faking Black identity: An American tradition

    Faking Black identity: An American tradition The New Pittsburgh Courier Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2015-06-27 Robert Fikes Jr., Reference Librarian San Diego State University, San Diego, California The recent case of Rachel Dolezal, the White woman who reinvented herself as African American and headed the Spokane, Washington NAACP, is just the latest sensationalized instance of “passing.”  Though…

  • The Unperformative President

    The Unperformative President TDR: The Drama Review Volume 59, Number 2, Summer 2015 (T226) pages 7-8 Richard Schechner, University Professor; Professor, Performance Studies New York University Who is President Barack Obama? What will his legacy be? Why is he so unpopular that his own Democratic Party shunned him during the 2014 elections? The Dems got…

  • This identity and social experience is part of what Dolezal is denounced for having inauthentically appropriated. Unfortunately, it’s a darn sight messier and more complicated than that.

    This identity and social experience is part of what [Rachel] Dolezal is denounced for having inauthentically appropriated. Unfortunately, it’s a darn sight messier and more complicated than that. For after all, blackness, responding to the dominant society’s definition and control of boundaries was in part defined by its opposition to the cultural construct of whiteness,…

  • Imperfect Unions: Staging Miscegenation in U.S. Drama and Fiction by Diana Rebekkah Paulin (review)

    Imperfect Unions: Staging Miscegenation in U.S. Drama and Fiction by Diana Rebekkah Paulin (review) [Black] TDR: The Drama Review Volume 59, Number 2, Summer 2015 (T226) pages 178-180 Alex W. Black Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Imperfect Unions: Staging Miscegenation in U.S. Drama and Fiction. Diana Rebekkah Paulin. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press,…