Month: February 2016

  • I thought I was a gorgeous kid until I learned I was just ‘pretty, for a black girl’ The Guardian 2016-02-04 Rebecca Carroll My white birthmother told me that the idea that I was gorgeous was a fiction inflicted upon me out of a sense of white liberal guilt When I was a little girl,…

  • I’m protective of my blackness because I had to find it myself The Guardian 2015-11-12 Rebecca Carroll I was dogged in my determination to evolve outside the narrow margins of the small white world of my beginning and into another more racially familiar one I spent the first 20 years of my life internalizing white…

  • Is It Time To Stop Using Race In Medical Research? Shots: Health News from NPR National Public Radio 2016-02-05 Angus Chen Genetics researchers often discover certain snips and pieces of the human genome that are important for health and development, such as the genetic mutations that cause cystic fibrosis or sickle cell anemia. And scientists…

  • This issue considers the oeuvre of Haitian writer Marie Vieux-Chauvet (1916–1973) as a prism through which to examine individual and collective subject formation in the postcolonial French-writing Caribbean, the wider Afro-Americas, and beyond.

  • Saving the Race: Conversations on Du Bois from a Collective Memoir of Souls Harlem Moon (an imprint of Broadway Books) 2004 224 pages Edited by: Rebecca Carroll W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk is one of the most influential books ever published in this country. In it, Du Bois wrote that “the problem…

  • Taking race out of human genetics Science Volume 351, Issue 6273 (2016-02-05) pages 564-565 DOI: 10.1126/science.aac4951 Michael Yudell, Associate Professor Dornsife School of Public Health Department of Community Health and Prevention Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander…

  • In “The Alexander Litany,” intersectionality collides with campus North by Northwestern 2016-02-03 Lauren Sonnenberg Roger Mason as Clarence, Eliott Sagay as Joseph, Grant Lewis as Jackson, Jeff Paschal as Max. Photo by Alexandria Woodson “Look into my eyes and you’ll see that fear ain’t only skin deep, at least not for me,” implored Max Alexander,…

  • Infiltrating the colonial city through the imaginaries of Metissage: Saint-Louis (Senegal), Saint-Pierre (Martinique) and Jeremie (Haiti) University of Iowa August 2015 281 pages Avonelle Pauline Remy, Assistant Professor of French Hope College, Holland, Michigan A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy degree in French and Francophone World Studies…

  • One Drop of Love: Presented by Mesa Arts Center as part of the Performing Live Series Mesa Arts Center Nesbitt/Elliott Playhouse One East Main Street Mesa, Arizona 85201 Telephone: 480.644.6500 Friday, 2016-02-05, 19:30 MST (Local Time) Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni How does our belief in ‘race’ affect our most intimate relationships? One Drop of Love travels…

  • Students propose multiracial peer liaison program Yale Daily News New Haven, Connecticut 2016-02-03 Monica Wang, Staff Reporter When Chandler Gregoire ’17 stepped onto Yale’s campus as a freshman more than three years ago, she was assigned two peer liaisons: one from the Afro-American Cultural Center and the other from the Asian American Cultural Center. Ethnically,…