Month: April 2016

  • White America’s Obama-era freakout: What research can tell us about racial animus since 2008 Salon 2016-04-17 Sean McElwee The election of America’s first black president somehow led even more conservative whites to change parties Racism may be the single most important feature of contemporary American politics and the key to understanding the Obama Presidency. This…

  • With ‘Keanu,’ Key & Peele Break Into Feature Films — With Kittens in Tow The New York Times 2016-04-20 Dave Itzkoff, Culture Reporter There is no longer “Key & Peele,” the razor-sharp Comedy Central sketch series that ended in September. There are only Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, the comic actors and writers who used…

  • Growing up in San Antonio, [Adriana] Brown said she struggled to find other representations of herself — an Afro-Latina woman from a working class family — both in her community and literature.

  • Colorism The Podcast Stuff Mom Never Told You 2016-04-13 Cristen Conger, Co-host Caroline Ervin, Co-host Why does lighter skin improve women’s chances of getting through school, getting a job and getting married? Cristen and Caroline explore the historical roots, repercussions and cross-cultural shades of colorism around the world. Listen to the episode (00:48:48) here. Download…

  • Our love was colour blind… but our families weren’t The Daily Mail London, United Kingdom 2016-02-05 Diana Appleyard and Clare Goldwin Deeply moving, and exposing tensions that still blight Britain today, mixed-race couples from four generations tell their stories ‘MY FATHER THREW ME OUT OF THE HOUSE’: 1940s MARY AND JAKE JACOBS Mary, 81, is…

  • Shade∙ism London South Bank University K2-VG10 Keyworth Street London, SE1 6NG, United Kingdom Thursday, 2016-04-21 17:30 BST (Local Time) Join us for this Black History Event organised by EquiNet, a network for Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) staff at LSBU. This event is supported by the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Unit. This event brings together…

  • The Psychosis of Whiteness: The Celluloid Hallucinations of Amazing Grace and Belle Journal of Black Studies Published online before print 2016-03-21 DOI: 10.1177/0021934716638802 Kehinde Andrews, Associate Professor in Sociology Birmingham City University, Birmingham, United Kingdom Critical Whiteness studies has emerged as an academic discipline that has produced a lot of work and garnered attention in…

  • About Latino Whiteness… The NiLP Report on Latino Politics & Policy The National Institute for Latino Policy 2016-04-10 CONTENTS “A Response to Linda Martín Alcoff’s ‘Latinos and the Category of Whiteness’” By Manuel Pastor (April 10, 2016) “Reply to Manuel Pastor” by Linda Martín Alcoff (April 10, 2016) Manuel Pastor, Professor of Sociology and American…

  • Mexican-Punjabis relation through dance NewsGram 2016-04-17 Megha Sharma the performance held on 10th and 11th april credits: kalw.org Mexican-Punjabi is a vanishing tribe The United States had always been an open land to possibilities. It is visited by a huge number of immigrants every year. California which is not only a land of renowned universities,…

  • Perception and the Mulatto Body in Inquisitorial Spain: A Neurohistory* Past and Present First published online: 2016-04-16 DOI: 10.1093/pastj/gtw001 Cristian Berco, Associate Professor of History Bishop’s University, Quebec On 1 July 1625, their hands issuing from Dominican cloaks as black as night, inquisitors in Madrid voted to arrest Luisa Nuñez on suspicion of practising love…