Month: February 2016

  • 2015 IMPACT25 Influencer: Misty Copeland ESPN W 2015-12-07 Dimity McDowell Davis, Special to espnW.com From line sketches to pencils and final color, Marvel captured the essences of our IMPACT25 nominees and turned them into super versions of themselves. Behind Marvel’s IMPACT25 heroes » “Every time I dance, I’m trying to prove myself to myself.” —Misty…

  • Biracial Sons More Likely Than Daughters To Identify As Black NBC News 2016-02-01 Aris Folley Black-white biracial sons of interracial parents, in which one parent is black and the other is white, are more likely than their female counterparts to identify as black, according to a study found in the February issue of the American…

  • Mexico Finally Recognized Its Black Citizens, But That’s Just The Beginning The Huffington Post 2016-01-27 Krithika Varagur Associate Editor, What’s Working In Mexico, like everywhere, identity is complex. Last month, for the first time ever, the Mexican government recognized its 1.38 million citizens of African descent in a national survey. The survey served as a…

  • Racialization and its paradigms: From Ireland to North America Current Sociology Volume 64, Number 2 (March 2016) pages 213-227 DOI: 10.1177/0011392115614782 Vilna Bashi Treitler, Professor of Black and Latino Studies; Professor of Sociology City University of New York This article offers a template for understanding and analyzing racialization as a paradigm. Further, this template is…

  • Exploring the geographies, genealogies, and concepts of race and gender of the African diaspora produced by the Atlantic slave trade

  • Trauma and Race: A Lacanian Study of African American Racial Identity Baylor University Press February 2016 190 pages 9in x 6in Hardback ISBN: 9781602587342 Sheldon George, Professor of English Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts African American identity is racialized. And this racialized identity has animated and shaped political resistance to racism. Hidden, though, are the psychological…

  • Bridging the Divide: My Life Rutgers University Press 2006-11-09 352 pages 16, 5.75 x 8.75 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-3905-8 Senator Edward W. Brooke (1919-2015) President Lyndon Johnson never understood it. Neither did President Richard Nixon. How could a black man, a Republican no less, be elected to the United States Senate from liberal, Democratic Massachusetts-a state…

  • As a brown-skinned Dominican, the idea that I was somehow Black never crossed my mind. But what does it mean to be Black? Who is considered Black, and who is not? Am I Black? If I’m Dominican, can I be Black too? Am I Black enough? These are questions I struggled to answer as I…

  • What happened to black Germans under the Nazis? The Conversation (US Pilot): Academic rigor, journalistic flair 2016-01-26 Eve Rosenhaft, Professor of German Historical Studies University of Liverpool The fact that we officially commemorate the Holocaust on January 27, the date of the liberation of Auschwitz, means that remembrance of Nazi crimes focuses on the systematic mass…

  • 3 Ways to Boost Your Self Esteem About Multiracial Hair Just Analise: Exploring and Embracing Authenticity in Life, Culture + Business 2016-01-31 Analise Kandasammy My multiracial hair. Sometimes it’s admired. Sometimes it’s a source of contention. Loved or hated, my hair undeniably me… Read the entire article here.