Month: October 2015

  • A Chosen Exile Think KERA-FM Dallas, Texas 2015-10-28 Krys Boyd, Host and Managing editor Dr. Albert Johnston passed in order to practice medicine. After living as leading citizens in Keene, N.H., the Johnstons revealed their true racial identity, and became national news. (Source: Historical Society of Cheshire County) From the founding of our nation to…

  • La melaza que llora: How to Keep the Term Afro-Latino from Losing Its Power Latino Rebels 2015-10-16 Jason Nichols, Lecturer in African American Studies University of Maryland Me quiere hacer pensar/ que soy parte de una trilogía racial/ donde todo el mundo es igual/ sin trato especial/ se perdonar/ eres tú que no sabe disculpar/…

  • Neither One Nor The Other: Why I Love Being Mixed-Race Discover Nikkei 2015-10-20 Mia Nakaji Monnier I love those parts that seem incompatible but that, in a person, come together. During my first week of college, I met a guy who, like me, had a long, four-part name. When I told him mine, he said,…

  • All four books under review here are concerned with telling dramatic tales about singular, real lives. But they are also books about race. They are driven by the larger goal of making the individual story stand for more than itself.

  • White by Law was published in 1996 to immense critical acclaim, and established Ian Haney López as one of the most exciting and talented young minds in the legal academy. The first book to fully explore the social and specifically legal construction of race, White by Law inspired a generation of critical race theorists and…

  • Rachel Dolezal, Alice Jones’ Nipples, the Rhinelander Fortune, and Racist White Fire Fighters Who Tried to Pass for ‘Black’ Indomitable: The Online Blog of Essayist and Cultural Critic Chauncey DeVega 2015-06-17 Chauncey DeVega Alice Beatrice Jones and Leonard “Kip” Rhinelander of Rhinelander v. Rhinelander (1924). I want to extend a sincere thanks to all of…

  • The varied tragedy of human life furnishes few more pathetic spectacles than that of the educated mulatto who is honestly seeking the welfare of a race with which a baleful commingling of blood has inexorably identified him, — who is striving to uplift to his own level a people between whose ideals and ambitions and…

  • The Spectacle of the Races: Scientists, Institutions, and the Race Questions in Brazil, 1870-1930 (review) Bulletin of the History of Medicine Volume 75, Number 1, Spring 2001 pages 152-153 DOI: 10.1353/bhm.2001.0014 J. D. Goodyear, Senior Lecturer and Associate Director, Public Health Studies Program Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland Lilia Moritz Schwarcz. The Spectacle of the…

  • I won’t apologize for my blackness. Lake Views: The Award Winning Student Newspaper of Lake Oswego High School Lake Oswego, Oregon 2015-10-07 Camryn Leland It’s not my job to make you feel comfortable. In an article written about the use of the n-word in the NFL it was stated, “The Story of the n-word, in…

  • When I heard the theme for this month was ‘identity’, the word crisis as an appendage kept coming to mind. As a mixed person it, it seems as though the word “crisis” is constantly attached to identity, as though there is confusion somewhere. This is problematic.