Day: May 4, 2016

  • 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.…

  • 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…