Day: May 9, 2016

  • 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…