Day: December 20, 2015

  • Passing in White America Chicago Humanities Festival 2015-12-18 Between the 18th and 20th centuries, countless African Americans passed as white, leaving behind families, friends, and community. It was, as Stanford historian Allyson Hobbs writes, a chosen exile, a separation from one racial identity and a leap into another. Her work explores the way this racial…

  • Old Dixie Highway renamed President Barack Obama Highway in Florida city The Washington Post 2015-12-19 Elahe Izadi, Reporter Workers install a new sign in Riviera Beach, Fla., on Thursday. (City of Riviera Beach) Old Dixie Highway is no more in Riviera Beach, Fla. Instead, motorists are driving on President Barack Obama Highway. Riviera Beach officials…

  • New York Times Just Boarded the Post-Racial Express: A critical response to “Choose Your Own Identity” Multiracial Asian Families 2015-12-16 Sharon H. Chang screen shot from NY Times Magazine This Monday, The New York Times Magazine published a very unfortunate essay about multiracial Asian children: Choose Your Own Identity, by author and mother Bonnie Tsui.…

  • Forward Passes The New York Review of Books 2015-12-17 Darryl Pinckney Loving Day by Mat Johnson; Spiegel and Grau, 287 pp., $26.00 The importing of human beings into the US from Africa to be sold as slaves was outlawed in 1808, after which the slave markets of the southern states traded in black people born…

  • Bombay To Brooklyn: New York’s Indian Jews Strive To Preserve Heritage News India Times New York, New York 2015-12-14 Ela Dutt, Managing Editor Siona Benjamin. Photo by Sami studio Siona Benjamin, a greater New York City artist, hangs her “very typical” Indian Jewish Mezuzah, a prayer scroll in an engraved casing, on her door to…

  • History Matters: Nanticoke tribe seeks to sustain its identity Delaware Public Media: Delaware’s source for NPR News WDDE 91.1, Dover WMPH 91.7, Wilmington 2015-06-26 Anne Hoffman, Youth Producer and General Assignment Reporter History Matters examines the Nanticoke Tribe of Delaware’s fight to maintain its identity. They’re called Delaware’s Forgotten Folks. In the second part of…