Day: July 21, 2015

  • Rachel Dolezal’s True Lies Vanity Fair 2015-07-19 Allison Samuels Justin Bishop, Photography Photograph by Justin Bishop. For a time this summer, it seemed all anyone could talk about was the N.A.A.C.P. chapter president whose parents had “outed” her as white. The tornado of public attention has since moved on, but Rachel Dolezal still has to…

  • Tessa Souter is known as a New York City singer-songwriter, but her biography runs much deeper. She’s taken a few detours on her way to the jazz clubs.

  • (Collective) Memory of Racial Violence and the Social Construction of the Hispanic Category among Houston Hispanics Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Volume 1, Number 3 (July 2015) pages 424-438 DOI: 10.1177/2332649215576757 Elizabeth Korver-Glenn Department of Sociology Rice University, Houston, Texas Prior U.S.-based research examining the collective remembrance of racially charged events has focused on the…

  • Ep. 22 – Jennifer Frappier, Guest Multiracial Family Man 2015-07-19 Alex Barnett, Host In Episode 22 of The Multiracial Family Man Podcast, host Alex Barnett (the White, Jewish husband of a Black woman who converted to Judaism and the father of a 3 year-old, Biracial son) is joined by guest, Jennifer Frappier, Producer and Event…

  • Irish Immigrants and the Underground Railroad Medium 2015-07-02 Liam Hogan A Ride for Liberty — The Fugitive Slaves, oil on paperboard, ca. 1862, Brooklyn Museum But the Irish are indeed a strange people. How varied their aspect — how contradictory their character. William Wells Brown (1852) What William Wells Brown should have said was “the Irish are human.” The…