Month: May 2016

  • This desire to own all aspects of a hyphenated identity at once was probably the most pronounced unifying theme for the conference participants, who spanned the gamut of skin tones and religious observance levels. We shared the experience of feeling like outsiders, and many shared an overlapping constellation of marginalized identities like non-whiteness, queerness and…

  • Jump at de Sun The Nation 2003-01-30 Kristal Brent Zook Anthropologist, novelist, folklorist, essayist and luminary of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston dazzled her peers and patrons almost immediately upon her arrival in New York City in 1925, when she made a show-stopping grand entrance at a formal literary affair, flinging a red scarf…

  • Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence University of Georgia Press May 2016 336 pages Trim size: 6 x 9 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8203-4956-5 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8203-4957-2 Author Website Edited by: Chad Williams, Associate Professor of African & Afro-American Studies Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts Kidada E. Williams, Associate Professor of History Wayne State University,…

  • This work resituates the Spanish Caribbean as an extension of the Luso-African Atlantic world from the late sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth century, when the union of the Spanish and Portuguese crowns facilitated a surge in the transatlantic slave trade.

  • A Refugee from His Race: Albion W. Tourgée and His Fight against White Supremacy University of North Carolina Press 2016-05-02 464 pages 9 halftones, notes, bibl., index 6.125 x 9.25 Paper ISBN: 978-1-4696-2795-3 Carolyn L. Karcher During one of the darkest periods of U.S. history, when white supremacy was entrenching itself throughout the nation, the…

  • The “Highly Important Matter of Clothes”: Apparel and Identity in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand Fringe: The Noun That Verbs Your World Issue 19, Summer 2009 (2009-07-19) Kaley Joyes Nella Larsen’s novel Quicksand (1928) is saturated with clothing. This essay examines the ways in which Larsen uses fashionable apparel to map connections between racial identity and aesthetic…

  • Jews of Color Get Personal and Political at First-Ever National Gathering Forward 2016-05-04 Sigal Samuel, Opinion Editor If you want to get black Jews, Mizrahi Jews and a Palestinian-American Muslim to burst into tears at the same time, invite Yavilah McCoy to talk about hair. Speaking at the opening plenary of the Jews of Color…

  • Jewish/Afro-Caribbean artist, performer and playwright Sarah Waisvisz, 34, will be presenting her one-woman show, Monstrous, which explores the often ignored mixed race identity based on her own personal experiences, and her work on her PhD thesis research about Francophone/Anglophone literature specifically by Afro/Caribbean women

  • What Obama’s Trip To Havana Revealed About Race In Cuba And The U.S. African American Intellectual History Society 2016-05-04 Devyn Spence Benson, Assistant Professor of History and African and African American Studies Louisiana State University During his groundbreaking visit to Havana last month, President Barack Obama suggested that the embrace of U.S.-style democracy and capitalism…

  • The Calumet Roundtable: A Discussion with Samantha Joyce The Calumet Roundtable 2016-04-07 Lee Artz, Host and Professor of Communication Purdue University Calumet, Hammond, Indiana Samantha Joyce, Professor of Mass Communication Indiana University, South Bend In this episode of “The Calumet Roundtable,” host Dr. Lee Artz, Professor of Communication at Purdue University Calumet, and guest Dr.…