Month: March 2016

  • Hew To The Line And Let The Chips Fall Where They May. The Broad Ax Salt Lake City, Utah 1903-09-05 (Volume VIII, Number 45) page 1, columns 5-6 Source: Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. United States Library of Congress. (For “The Broad Ax”) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,—8. The reader will observe the figures at…

  • A Son of the Wealthiest Planter in the South Convicted of a Great Crime. The Anderson Intellingencer Anderson Court House., South Carolina Thursday Morning, 1875-05-20 (Volume X, Number 44) page 1, column 3 Source: Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. United States Library of Congress. “William S. Calhoun, convicted of forgery on evidence of his quadroon…

  • Off the record: Wright State’s Natasha McPherson pulls histories of Creole women from obscure public documents Dialogue: Newsletter for Faculty & Staff Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio 2015-02-03 Jim Hannah, Assistant Director of Public Relations Natasha McPherson, an assistant professor of history, has spent 10 years documenting the previously untold history of Creole women. With…

  • Unpublished Black Asian History Grits and Sushi: my musings on okinawa, race, militarization, and blackness 2016-03-08 Mitzi Uehara Carter This photo captures a quiet story of a multicultural South, black philanthropy, transpacific militarism and its hauntings, the organizing strength of of Black women, and the power of Black journalism and photography. How does this one…

  • EXCLUSIVE: Misty Copeland on overcoming adversity, fighting for diversity in ballet The State Columbia, South Carolina 2016-03-09 Erin Shaw Misty Copeland Provided photo The prima ballerina talks body image and being named the first black woman principal dancer Copeland comes to Columbia for a ballet fundraiser with Elgin native Brooklyn Mack There was time when…

  • An Emerging Entry In America’s Multiracial Vocabulary: ‘Blaxican’ Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2016-03-08 Adrian Florido When Melissa Adams and her sister were growing up in Lynwood, near Compton, Calif., their black father and Mexican mother taught them to be proud of all aspects of their identity: They were…

  • Afro-Latin America State University of New York, Albany Summer 2016 Course Info: ALCS 203 Luis Paredes Analysis of blackness in Latin America with a focus on the representations of peoples of African descent in national identities and discourses. The course examines some of the “myths of foundation” of Latin American nations (e.g. The “cosmic race”…

  • Variations on racial tension The Harvard Gazette 2016-02-26 John Laidler, Harvard Correspondent For every nation, a different set of challenges, panelists say A panel discussion Wednesday highlighted striking contrasts in how nations perceive and grapple with racial inequality. Tracing evolving attitudes toward race and discrimination in Latin America, Europe, and the United States, a trio…

  • “Mulatto: It’s Not a Cool Word” The Atlantic 2016-03-04 Nadine Ajaka, Associate Producer for Video Evoking the Mulatto is a multimedia project examining black mixed identity in the 21st century, through the lens of the history of racial classification in the United States. It was created by the filmmaker Lindsay Catherine Harris, and features compelling…

  • Black hair is finally fashionable. But on whose terms? – video The Guardian 2016-03-09 Emma Dabiri Growing up with afro hair can be traumatic, especially when white ideals of beauty are everywhere. But, says Emma Dabiri, black women are increasingly letting their natural hair out, and the ‘fro is becoming fashionable. But, she argues, they…