Month: September 2015

  • Between the World and Me: Empathy Is a Privilege The Atlantic 2015-09-28 John Paul Rollert, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science University of Chicago Booth School of Business Barack Obama and Ta-Nehisi Coates have made race and empathy central to their writing, but their conclusions point in radically different directions. Don’t despair. According to Ta-Nehisi…

  • nterracial sex mattered to the British colonial state in West Africa. In “Crossing the Color Line,” Carina E. Ray goes beyond this fact to reveal how Gold Coasters—their social practices, interests, and anxieties—shaped and defined these powerfully charged relations across racial lines.

  • Born that way? ‘Scientific’ racism is creeping back into our thinking. Here’s what to watch out for. The Washington Post 2015-09-28 W. Carson Byrd, Assistant Professor of Pan-African Studies University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky Matthew W. Hughey, Professor of Sociology University of Connecticut This month, Jennifer Cramblett lost her “wrongful birth” lawsuit, which centered on…

  • An Ohio town where races have mixed freely for more than 200 years The Washington Post 2015-09-26 Kevin Williams Connor Keiser, 22, left, shows his album of historic photos of Longtown to James Jett, 90 at Bethel Long Wesleyan Church. (Maddie McGarvey/For The Washington Post) Amid the corn and soybean fields of western Ohio lies…

  • The Fabulous World of Harumi Klossowska de Rola The New York Times Magazine 2015-09-22 Hilary Moss “Benoît, my partner, took this photo in 2013 in front of the Grand Chalet, which was a hotel until my father bought it. It is still loaded with thousands of books and even old skis from English clients. My…

  • Dr. Wanda Wyporska on Witchcraft Persecution WandaWyporskaWitchcraft 2014-09-07 Dr. Wanda Wyporska A show reel of Dr Wanda Wyporska talking about witchcraft for the BBC BAME expert days – 2014

  • Presents Race, Hip-Hop & The American Future: A Conversation with Adam Mansbach The John Hope Franklin Center Duke University 2204 Erwin Road Durham, North Carolina 27708-0402 Monday, 2015-09-28, 18:30 EDT (Local Time) Mark Anthony Neal, Professor of African & African American Studies The Center for Arts + Digital Culture + Entrepreneurship (CADCE) Presents Race, Hip-Hop…

  • What Makes Black Men Run From the Police? The Root 2015-08-27 Will Jawando Your Take: A good, hard look at the statistics will tell you why African Americans have reason to fear an encounter with police. t’s never much of a surprise when I hear it, but it stings all the same. Freddie Gray would…

  • A Place in Between The Washington Post 2008-08-25 Kevin Merida, Managing Editor Will Jawando sat on a Capitol Hill park bench admiring an unseasonably breezy August afternoon as he told his story of being half black and half white, “kind of a double outsider” in a nation still struggling with difference. His story could easily be…

  • If all ethnic identities are created, imagined or negotiated to some degree, American Hispanics provide an especially stark example. As part of an effort in the 1970s to better measure who was using what kind of social services, the federal government established the word “Hispanic” to denote anyone with ancestry traced to Spain or Latin…