Month: January 2016

  • The enduring function of caste: colonial and modern Haiti, Jamaica, and Brazil The economy of race, the social organization of caste, and the formulation of racial societies Comparative American Studies Volume 2, Issue 1 (01 March 2004) pages 61-73 DOI: 10.1177/1477570004041288 Tekla Ali Johnson, Professional Public Historian Southern Preservation Center in Charlotte, North Carolina Modern…

  • Mixed but not matched: Being mixed-race in America The Daily Evergreen Washington State University Pullman, Washington 2016-01-21 Sophia Stephens, Evergreen columnist The experience of being a mixed-race person in America can be described in one word – mixed. Depending on how a mixed-race person looks and is perceived, the experience of being an ethnic or…

  • Trans-racial Mothering: Double-Edged Privilege Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless Volume 17, Issue 1-2 (01 February 2008) pages 8-36 DOI: 10.1179/sdh.2008.17.1-2.8 Martha Satz, Assistant Professor of English Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas In this essay, the white adoptive mother of two bi-racial children reflects upon her thirty year experience of parenting to make several…

  • Jeff Chang in conversation with Adam Mansbach Kepler’s Books 1010 El Camino Real Menlo Park, California 94025-4349 Tuesday, 2015-01-26, 19:30 PST (Local Time) It’s hard to express just how cool and important Who We Be is with words alone. Jeff seems to share this sentiment when it comes to a cultural history of the idea…

  • What is the Defining Divide? False Post-Racial Dogmas and the Biblical Affirmation of “Race” Black Theology Volume 13, Issue 2 (August, 2015) pages 166-188 DOI: 10.1179/1476994815Z.00000000054 Kumar Rajagopalan London Baptist Association, London, United Kingdom This essay offers a critical reflection on the challenges of addressing the concept of “race,” and whether there is a post-racial…

  • Obama as Text: The Crisis of Double-Consciousness Comparative American Studies Volume 10, Issue 2/3 (August 2012) pages 211-225 DOI: 10.1179/1477570012Z.00000000016 Simon Gikandi, Robert Schirmer Professor of English Princeton University The argument of this essay is that given the unique circumstances of his life, including his location in multiple spaces of cultural identity, Obama is an…

  • This third book in the Burning Eye pamphlet series (following Sally Jenkinson’s Sweat-borne Secrets and Mairi Campbell-Jack’s “This Is A Poem…”) presents Raymond Antrobus, a poet from Hackney with a talent for plucking poetry from the mouths of ordinary people.

  • Multiracial in the Workplace: A New Kind of Discrimination? Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC Fall 2015 Speaker Series presents: “Multiracial in the Workplace: A New Kind of Discrimination?” University of Pittsburgh 2015-12-10 Tanya Hernandez, Professor of Law Fordham University Welcome by: Larry Davis, Dean, Donald M. Henderson Professor, and Director Center for Race and Social…

  • Law is still black & white, not multiracial, Fordham prof says University Times: The Faculty & Staff Newspaper Since 1968 University of Pittsburgh 2016-01-07 Marty Levine Despite the fact that more people are identifying themselves as multiracial on the U.S. census, decisions in discrimination cases involving multiracial defendants still are primarily based on the presence…

  • A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia, by Richard Dunn The English Historical Review Volume 130, Issue 547, December 2015 pages 1575-1577 DOI: 10.1093/ehr/cev299 Trevor Burnard, Professor of History University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia, by…