Month: May 2016

  • Race & Racisms: A Critical Approach [Gabriel Review] Tanya Maria Golash-Boza, Race and Racisms: A Critical Approach (New York, London: Oxford University Press, 2014) Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Published online before print 2016-04-22 DOI: 10.1177/2332649216645801 Ricardo Gabriel The Graduate Center City University of New York Explaining to students that race is a social construction…

  • Why does the Misty Copeland Barbie doll look so … white? The Washington Post 2016-05-03 Sara L. Kaufman, Dance Critic The new Misty Copeland Barbie doll. Photographer Dennis Di Laura Stylist Sheryl Fetrick On Monday, Mattel rolled out a Barbie doll modeled on ballerina Misty Copeland, who broke the color barrier at American Ballet Theatre…

  • Coloring Outside The Lines With Interracial Marriage The Stony Brook Independent Stony Brook, New York 2016-05-02 Kayla Frazier, Staff Writer For Stony Brook student Shage Price, being the daughter of parents of different races led her to have questions about her looks early on. “I would always ask my mother why she married daddy and…

  • Paperback Row Book Review The New York Times 2016-04-29 Joumana Khatib Seven new paperbacks to check out this week… …A CHOSEN EXILE: A History of Racial Passing in American Life, by Allyson Hobbs. (Harvard University, $16.95.) People who chose to “pass” were intentionally clandestine and left few clues of their histories, but here, Hobbs, a…

  • Loyal Southerners – a presentation by Marvin T. Jones Rock Creek Nature Center 5200 Glover Road, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20015 Saturday, 2016-05-07, 09:30-11:00 EDT (Local Time) Marvin T. Jones, Executive Director Chowan Discovery Group The story of the most famous of Southern Unionists, Newton Knight (left) will be screened on film. It stars Mathew McConaughey and…

  • “Virtues do not all belong to the whites”: The Portrayals of Americanization and Miscegenation in Sui Sin Far’s Mrs. Spring Fragrance SEGue: Symposium for English Graduate Students The College at Brockport, State University of New York 2016-04-23 18 pages Jennifer Bradley Villanova University The works of Sui Sin Far, who is widely recognized as the…

  • MixedRaceStudies.org Surpasses 10,000 Posts! MixedRaceStudies.org 2016-05-02 Steven F. Riley, Creator and Founder Silver Spring, Maryland–MixedRaceStudies.org, the a non-commercial website that since 2009, provides the most comprehensive and robust gateway to interdisciplinary English language media about the relevant issues surrounding multiracialism, has now surpassed 10,000 posts.  This site has been called by a preeminent scholar, “the most comprehensive…

  • The PEN Ten with Mat Johnson PEN American Center 2015-03-17 Randa Jarrar The PEN Ten is PEN America’s weekly interview series. This week, guest editor Randa Jarrar talks with Mat Johnson, the author of Pym and the graphic novel Incognegro. His upcoming novel, Loving Day, will be published by Spiegiel & Grau on May 26.…

  • Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America – Book Review National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) 2016-04-04 Shauna Harris Rockquemore, Kerry Ann and David L. Brunsma, Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America (Second Edition) (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007). Beyond Black is a groundbreaking study that used both interview and survey data of young black/white…

  • The New Jewish Diaspora? Forward 2016-04-28 Sam Kestenbaum Shavei Israel For centuries, world travelers dreamed of finding distant Jewish tribes in the faraway corners of their known world — over the mountains, in remote villages, practicing customs preserved in isolation. Today, a quick Google search will do. In Facebook groups and on Skype, on Whatsapp…