Month: June 2016

  • Piers Morgan shot down after trying to justify comments about ‘racist’ Muhammad Ali during GMB The Daily Mirror London, England 2016-06-06 The host previously tweeted that Ali was responsible for a number of ‘inflammatory’ and ‘racist’ comments Piers Morgan was shot down as he discussed Muhammad Ali during Good Morning Britain. Over the weekend the…

  • National Women’s History Museum presents Chinese American Women: A History of Resilience and Resistance National Women’s History Museum 2016-06-08 Joseph, Emily, Mamie, Frank, and Mary Tape. Tape v. Hurley Mary Tape was a biracial Chinese American woman who believed that her daughter, Mamie, should have the same access to education as white children in San…

  • “Slow Jam the News” with President Obama The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon NBC 2016-09-06 Jimmy Fallon and President Obama slow jam the news, discussing Obama’s legacy, accomplishments and thoughts on the 2016 election.

  • “Necessarily Black”is an ethnographic account of second-generation Cape Verdean youth identity in the United States and a theoretical attempt to broaden and complicate current discussions about race and racial identity in the twenty-first century. P. Khalil Saucier grapples with the performance, embodiment, and nuances of racialized identities (blackened bodies) in empirical contexts.

  • Searching for Identity: Race, adoption and awareness in the millennial generation Medium 2016-05-19 Dwight Smith What happens when a black boy is adopted at birth into a white world where race and racism are ghosts of the past and racial identity is a silly thing to waste time thinking about? As a transracial adult adoptee…

  • Nadia Karizat: Divided into nothing The Michigan Daily 2016-05-18 Nadia Karizat There are moments in my life that have burned me silently and set me up for questioning what I am. I say “what” and not “who” because I know who I am. I am someone who believes that the best moments are spontaneous, that…

  • Fractionalized: Stories of Biracial Joy, Pain, Struggle and Triumph Madison 365 Madison, Wisconsin 2016-06-25 Mia Sato, Senior University of Wisconsin, Madison Mixed. Multi. One-half-this and one-quarter-that. Biracial, mixed-race, “two or more races.” In a world obsessed with labels, the pressure to claim oneself as part of a racial group is an inescapable reality for a…

  • Nothing is black and white in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s ‘An Octoroon’ The Washington Post 2016-06-06 Peter Marks, Theater critic Jon Hudson Odom, left, as George, Maggie Wilder, center, as Dora and Kathyrn Tkel as Zoe in “An Octoroon.” (Scott Suchman) “Hi, everyone, I’m a black playwright!” the actor Jon Hudson Odom exclaims at the outset of…

  • An Octoroon Woolly Mammoth Theater 641 D Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20004 2016-05-30 through 2016-06-26 By Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Directed by Nataki Garrett A plantation on the brink of foreclosure. A young gentleman falling for the part-black daughter of the estate’s owner. An evil swindler plotting to buy her for himself. Meanwhile, the slaves are trying…

  • “[She] Passed Down Orleans Street, a Polished Dandy”: The Queer Race Romance of Ludwig von Reizenstein’s The Mysteries of New Orleans Studies in American Fiction Volume 43, Issue 1, Spring 2016 pages 27-50 DOI: 10.1353/saf.2016.0005 Lauren Heintz Department of English California State University, Los Angeles Ludwig von Reizenstein’s sensational, serialized novel, The Mysteries of New…