Month: September 2016

  • In the summer of 2015, shortly after Caitlyn Jenner came out as transgender, the NAACP official and political activist Rachel Dolezal was “outed” by her parents as white, touching off a heated debate in the media about the fluidity of gender and race. If Jenner could legitimately identify as a woman, could Dolezal legitimately identify…

  • Uchinanchu: The Art of Laura Kina Kwan Fong Gallery of Art and Culture California Lutheran University 120 Memorial Parkway Thousand Oaks, California 91360 2016-05-23 On view: June 10–October 30, 2016 Artist’s Talk: Thursday, September 29, 2016 | 6 p.m. PDT Image: Laura Kina, Hello Kitty, acrylic on canvas and denim, assorted fabrics, t-shirts from the artist’s…

  • This book explores mixed marriage though intimate stories drawn from the real lives of visibly different couples.

  • Opinion: “White spaces” are everywhere – including ARC The American River Current Sacramento, California 2016-09-26 Shiavon Chatman Imagine being alone in a place where there was no one who looked like you or understood your experiences. Imagine having a conversation with someone who assumed the actions and behaviors of people who looked like you and…

  • Colin Kaepernick Had No Choice but to Kneel TIME 2016-10-03 John McWhorter, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature Columbia University, New York, New York ‘We must understand what Kaepernick is protesting’ The idea that Colin Kaepernick’s refusal to stand during the national anthem is unpatriotic fails doubly: first, in a mistaken notion of what…

  • Black Journalist T. Thomas Fortune Prophetically Predicts Today’s Political Climate African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) 2016-09-24 Shawn Leigh Alexander, Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and Director of the Langston Hughes Center University of Kansas Newspaper editor and former slave T. Thomas Fortune formed the National Afro-American League, heralded as the first major…

  • Real Native Genius: How an Ex-Slave and a White Mormon Became Famous Indians by Angela Pulley Hudson (review) The Journal of the Civil War Era Volume 6, Number 3, September 2016 pages 439-442 DOI: 10.1353/cwe.2016.0058 Adam Pratt, Assistant Professor of History University of Scranton, Scranton, Pennsylvania Real Native Genius: How an Ex-Slave and a White…

  • A Qualitative Analysis of Multiracial Students’ Experiences With Prejudice and Discrimination in College Journal of College Student Development Volume 57, Number 6, September 2016 pages 680-697 DOI: 10.1353/csd.2016.0068 Samuel D. Museus, Associate Professor of Higher Education and Student Affairs Indiana University Susan A. Lambe Sariñana, Clinical Psychologist Cambridge, Massachusetts April L. Yee University of Pennsylvania…

  • Meta-Melodrama: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Appropriates Dion Boucicault’s The Octoroon Modern Drama Volume 59, Number 3, Fall 2016 pages 285-305 Verna A. Foster, Professor of English Loyola University Chicago In adapting the nineteenth-century melodrama The Octoroon, Jacobs-Jenkins both satirizes Boucicault’s racial assumptions and emulates his aesthetic principles to produce a meta-melodrama, a play that at once celebrates…

  • This Movie Was Nearly Lost. Now They’re Fighting to Save It. The New York Times 2016-09-23 John Anderson Richard Romain in the 1982 film “Cane River.” Credit IndieCollect When it debuted in 1982, “Cane River” was already a rarity: a drama by an independent black filmmaker, financed by wealthy black patrons and dealing with race…