Month: October 2016

  • How America Bought and Sold Racism, and Why It Still Matters Collectors Weekly 2015-11-10 Lisa Hix, Associated Editor Today, very few white Americans openly celebrate the horrors of black enslavement—most refuse to recognize the brutal nature of the institution or actively seek to distance themselves from it. “The modern American sees slavery as a regrettable period when…

  • I was already dreading the thought of doing it again, having to face those saccharine smiles trying to understand, Why are you here? Again, I’m a black woman with a Jewish mother, and I live in the United States of America. When I say that I’m used to being in places where I don’t look…

  • TriPod Mythbusters: Quadroon Balls And Plaçage Tripod WWNO 89.9 FM New Orleans, Louisiana 2016-09-22 Laine Kaplan-Levenson, Host There is a common myth told about 19th-century New Orleans. It goes something like this: Imagine you’re in an elegant dance hall in New Orleans in the early 1800s. Looking around, you see a large group of white men and free…

  • Turn Onto Old Dixie. After a Long, Rocky Stretch, It Becomes Obama Highway. The New York Times 2016-10-23 Dan Barry Peter Henry, the son of Dora Johnson, looking over a wall near 27th Street and President Barack Obama Highway in Riviera Beach, Fla., that once separated black and white neighborhoods. Credit Todd Heisler/The New York…

  • Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity Federal Register: The Daily Journal of the United States Government A Notice by the Management and Budget Office on 09/30/2016 2016-09-30 4 pages Howard A. Shelanski, Administrator Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs AGENCY: Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and…

  • Postcolonial Palimpsests: Entwined Colonialisms and the Conflicted Representation of Charles Bon in William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! ariel: A Review of International English Literature Volume 47, Number 4, October 2016 pages 1-23 DOI: 10.1353/ari.2016.0044 Jenna Grace Sciuto, Assistant Professor, English/Communications Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts This essay argues that Charles Bon in William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!…

  • Collection of demographic data regarding multiracial identification. The New York City Council Melissa Mark-Viverito, Speaker 2014-11-25 (Passed 2016-11-13) Int 0551-2014, Version A (2014-11-25) A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to the collection of demographic data regarding multiracial identification Proposed Int. No. 551-A would require the Department of Social Services,…

  • Where did Colin Kaepernick get start as an activist? USA TODAY 2016-09-30 Josh Peter They remember the conservative haircut he wore at John Pitman High School, and now they see the Afro and cornrows. They remember his studious and soft-spoken ways from a decade ago, and now they see him refusing to stand for the…

  • Shaun King on Colin Kaepernick: He is Enormously Courageous and Has Sparked a Movement Among Athletes Democracy Now! 2016-10-21 Amy Goodman, Host and Executive Producer Shaun King, Black Lives Matter activist and the senior justice writer for the New York Daily News, discusses NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who continued his protest Sunday against racial oppression…

  • Focus on world’s first black football star The Voice 2016-10-16 Poppy Brady Dr Tony Talburt decided that a book on Guyanese-born footballer Watson was seriously overdue, so he set about researching the background of this exceptional pioneer of the beautiful game HE WAS the world’s first black football superstar, but the name Andrew Watson is…