Month: September 2015

  • My Music Is My Soul, My Language Is My Armor Psychology Today 2014-12-02 Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, Ed.D. Stanford University Byron’s story of identity, healing, and empowerment “One night at a pub I heard the sound of traditional Okinawan folk music, and it was like being hit in the head with a hammer. The impact was like…

  • Girl in need of bone marrow highlights shortage of mixed-race donors The Chicago Tribune 2015-09-13 Vikki Ortiz Healy When doctors told Michelle Trujillo in July that her 6-year-old daughter would need a bone marrow transplant to save her life, the Crystal Lake mother didn’t want to wait another minute before getting her only child back…

  • Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction Awarded to Louise Erdrich News from the Library of Congress Washington, D.C. 2015-03-17 Winner to Participate in This Year’s National Book Festival Librarian of Congress James H. Billington has announced that Louise Erdrich, author of such critically acclaimed novels as “Love Medicine,” “The Last Report on the Miracles…

  • Color-Blindness Is Counterproductive The Atlantic 2015-09-13 Adia Harvey Wingfield, Professor of Sociology Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri Many sociologists argue that ideologies claiming not to see race risk ignoring discrimination. How many times have you heard someone say that they “don’t see color,” “are colorblind,” or “don’t have a racist bone in their body?” Maybe…

  • First black and minority ethnic orchestra to make debut BBC News 2015-09-11 Lizo Mzimba Europe’s first professional orchestra consisting entirely of black and minority ethnic musicians will make its debut this weekend at the Southbank Centre in London. The Chineke orchestra has been created to promote diversity in a musical world that is predominantly white.…

  • James Blake doesn’t want NYPD cop who tackled him to ‘ever have a badge and gun again’ The New York Daily News 2015-09-12 Wayne Coffey, Special Reporter Rich Schapiro, Staff Writer Retired tennis star James Blake said Saturday the NYPD cop who brutally wrestled him to the ground should be served his walking papers. “I…

  • They Pretend To Be Us While Pretending We Don’t Exist BuzzFeed 2015-09-11 Jenny Zhang, BuzzFeed Contributor Will Varner / BuzzFeed White poet Michael Derrick Hudson’s use of the Chinese pen name Yi-Fen Chou was an act of yellowface that is part of a long tradition of white voices drowning out those of color in the…

  • This book explores the history of African tangible and intangible heritages and its links with the public memory of slavery in Brazil and Angola. The two countries are deeply connected, given how most enslaved Africans, forcibly brought to Brazil during the era of the Atlantic slave trade, were from West Central Africa.

  • James Blake and the Myth of an Unarrestable Black Man The Daily Beast 2015-09-10 Tomás Ríos Bill Bratton said race ‘had nothing at all to do’ with tennis star James Blake’s wrongful collaring and arrest. The numbers tell a different story. What does a non-white person have to do for the police to leave them…

  • In its focus on genetics and race, global newspaper coverage of athletics is far from “post-racial” The LSE’s daily blog on American Politics and Policy The London School of Economics and Political Science London, United Kingdom 2015-09-10 Matthew W. Hughey, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Connecticut Devon R. Goss, Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology University…