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Month: January 2016

  • When Skin Privilege and Racial Belonging Collide

    When Skin Privilege and Racial Belonging Collide (not) Mixed (up): A Biracial Swirl in a Black and White World 2016-01-25 Shannon Luders-Manuel I’ve been thinking a lot about color / race privilege and why it’s such a hot button issue for the biracial community. In a Facebook group that I moderate, for mixed race women…

  • Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race

    Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race Wiley January 2015 304 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-118-95872-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-119-24198-0 E-book ISBN: 978-1-118-95965-7 Derald Wing Sue, Professor of Psychology and Education Columbia University, New York, New York Turn Uncomfortable Conversations into Meaningful Dialogue If you believe that talking about race…

  • Artist Phoebe Boswell explores what ‘home’ is, migration, family and Kenya’s troubled past

    Artist Phoebe Boswell explores what ‘home’ is, migration, family and Kenya’s troubled past True Africa 2015-11-05 Phoebe Boswell is one of the most exciting young artists working today. Her moving-image installation, The Matter of Memory, was exhibited at Carroll / Fletcher Gallery in London in 2014 alongside John Akomfrah and Rashaad Newsome. She is involved…

  • Review ‘Democracy in Black’ is a bracing call to action for African Americans

    Review ‘Democracy in Black’ is a bracing call to action for African Americans The Los Angeles Times 2016-01-21 Kiese Laymon, Professor of English Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul (New York: Crown, 2016) “We laud our democratic virtues to others and represent…

  • Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul

    Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul Crown 2016-01-12 288 Pages 6-1/4 x 9-1/4 Hardcover ISBN: 9780804137416 Ebook ISBN: 9780804137423 Eddie S. Glaude Jr., William S. Tod Professor of Religion and African-American Studies Princeton University A powerful polemic on the state of black America that savages the idea of a post-racial society…

  • Documenting the UK’s Black and Mixed Race Gingers

    Documenting the UK’s Black and Mixed Race Gingers Vice 2105-08-24 Natasha Culzac Francis Johnson by Michelle Marshall How would you describe a typical redhead? Do you think of Julianne Moore: light skinned and beautiful, with rust-coloured hair and a flush of crimson through her porcelain cheeks? Or do you think of Ed Sheeran? Either way,…

  • There’s no such thing as half-white or half-black. There’s no such thing as equality in America.

    There’s no such thing as half-white or half-black. There’s no such thing as equality in America. Amber Rambharose, “My Whiteness And My Blackness Are Not Reconcilable.” RaceBaitR, August 25, 2015. http://racebaitr.com/2015/08/25/my-whiteness-and-my-blackness-are-not-reconcilable/.

  • A Tale of Two Dinners

    A Tale of Two Dinners The Moth: True Stories Told Live Added: 2015-05-12 Recorded: 1999-04-19 Bliss Broyard A daughter discovers her father’s painstakingly kept secret. Listen to the episode here.

  • Call for Mixed Race Interviewees

    Call for Mixed Race Interviewees Mixed Race Feminist Blog 2016-01-23 Nicola Codner I am currently looking for mixed race people to take part in interviews for Mixed Race Feminist Blog. The aim of these interviews is to help mixed race people share their experiences without censoring and also to help them promote any work that…

  • My Whiteness And My Blackness Are Not Reconcilable.

    Almost any given object can be split in half with each half making up 50% of whole. I can only think of one exception. When someone asks if I am half black or half white, I don’t want to give the comfortable response they are looking for. Any answer would imply that my Whiteness and…