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Day: April 21, 2016

  • Lost Boundaries (1949)

    This is not a joke, but it starts like one: two men walk into an office. They have come to pitch an idea to a Hollywood mogul, an idea for a blockbuster movie. Sort of. Their idea is a docu-drama on George Washington Carver.

  • “Passing” “Presenting” & the Troubled Language of Mixed Race

    “Passing” “Presenting” & the Troubled Language of Mixed Race Multiracial Asian Families: thinking about race, families, children, and the intersection of mixed ID/Asian 2016-04-21 Sharon H. Chang I’m a light-skinned mixed race Asian/white woman. I don’t deny it. On my lightest day, in the deep of winter, under cover of endless Seattle clouds, I could…

  • The Myth of Transracial Identity

    Ninety years ago, writer Carl Van Vechten published a novel intended to be a celebration of Harlem, which at the time was experiencing a budding literary, artistic, and intellectual movement that sparked a new cultural identity for Black America.

  • We MUST Understand: Where is the ‘One-Drop Rule’ When We Need It Most?

    We MUST Understand: Where is the ‘One-Drop Rule’ When We Need It Most? African-American News&Issues Houston, Texas 2016-03-04 Roy Douglas Malonson, Publisher In regards to ‘race matters’ I remember a much simpler time when we knew who was Black. Now I am aware that we have always had a few of us that have ‘passed’…

  • Movie of the Week: Lost Boundaries

    Film tells real-life story of Negroes “passing” as whites

  • White America’s Obama-era freakout: What research can tell us about racial animus since 2008

    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

    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…

  • How poet Ariana Brown became the Afro-Latina role model she needed

    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

    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

    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…