Month: July 2016

  • This book illuminates the racialized nature of twenty-first century Western popular culture by exploring how discourses of race circulate in the Fantasy genre.

  • Marrying Black Girls for Guys who aren’t Black Jacana Media October 2013 256 pages 198 x 130mm Paperback ISBN: 9781920601287 d-PDF ISBN: 9781920601294 ePUB ISBN: 9781920601300 mobi file ISBN: 9781920601317 Hagen Engler White guy Hagen Engler had been married to his black wife for a couple of years before he realised he was still a…

  • The Daughter of Union County Lake Union Publishing August 2016 432 pages 5.5 x 1 x 8.2 inches Paperback ISBN: 978-1503937321 Francine Thomas Howard Fourteen years after the end of slavery, Lord Henry Hardin and his wife, Lady Bertha, enjoy an entitled life in Union County, Arkansas. Until he faces a devastating reality: Bertha is…

  • End of Whiteness: Satanism & Family Murder in Late Apartheid South Africa Jacana Media March 2016 240 pages 235x155mm Paperback ISBN: 9781431423279 Nicky Falkof, Senior Lecturer in Media Studies University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Satanism and family murder – bizarre responses to fear of change. This book examines the effects that apartheid may…

  • The Faux-Enlightened Free State of Jones The Atlantic 2016-06-28 Vann R. Newkirk II STX Productions Matthew McConaughey’s new movie is a predictable but instructive journey of white saviorhood. “Somehow, some way, and some time, everybody is somebody else’s nigger,” is an actual quote that happens around midway through Free State of Jones. Uttered by Matthew…

  • Black and White in the Free State of Jones Process: A Blog For American History 2016-07-14 Nina Silber, Professor of History Boston University I’ll confess: I was fully prepared to be disappointed with the recently-released Free State of Jones. Not out of any disrespect toward the excellent historical scholarship behind the film, including Victoria Bynum’s…

  • PHOTOS: What It Means to Celebrate Afro-Latinidad in the Time of Black Lives Matter Remezcla 2016-07-12 Isabelia Herrera, Music Editor Photography by: Itzel Alejandra Martinez, Photo Editor Itzel Alejandra Martinez When Remezcla headed to the fourth edition of New York City’s Afro-Latino Festival this weekend, surrounded by colorful dashikis and bold #BlackLivesMatter t-shirts, we were…

  • Making Jokes and History in An Octoroon African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) 2016-06-25 Christopher Bonner, Assistant Professor of History University of Maryland Last weekend I saw a performance of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins‘ play An Octoroon, which is a reimagining of Dion Boucicault’s The Octoroon, a popular 1859 melodrama set on a Louisiana plantation. There is…

  • “The Dozen” is the debut collection from the first winner of Write A House, Casey Rocheteau. This book of poems is intended as a game that grows outward.

  • How To Talk To Your Kids About Race Roundhouse Radio, 98.3 FM Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Thursday, 2016-07-14, 17:00-18:00Z (10:00-11:00 PDT) Live Call-in: How to talk to your kids about race With author and educator Sharon Chang, author of “Raising Mixed Race” and host Minelle Mahtani It’s been a tough news week. The media has…