Month: November 2016

  • Evolution of interracial marriage WSLS-TV 10 Roanoke, Virginia 2016-11-22 Brie Jackson, Anchor/Reporter ROANOKE (WSLS 10) – The story of one Virginia couple whose love for one another changed history is being shown on the big screen nationwide including the Grandin Theatre. “Loving” tells the story of Mildred and Richard Loving. He was white, she was…

  • Carina E. Ray: Crossing the Color Line: Race, Sex, and the Contested Politics of Colonialism in Ghana [Interview] New Books Network 2016-10-07 Dawne Curry, Associate Professor of History and Ethnic Studies University of Nebraska, Lincoln In Crossing the Color Line: Race, Sex, and the Contested Politics of Colonialism in Ghana (Ohio University Press, 2015), Carina…

  • The Distinction Between Slavery and Race in U.S. History African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) 2016-11-27 Patrick Rael, Professor of History Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine The history of the Electoral College is receiving a lot of attention. Pieces like this one, which explores “the electoral college and its racist roots,” remind us how deeply race…

  • A United Kingdom: Love In The Time Of The British Empire Media Diversified 2016-11-28 Shane Thomas Once the year in film began with #OscarsSoWhite, was it coincidence that 2016 is closing – and 2017 beginning – with a raft of movies featuring people of colour? We have Hidden Figures, Lion, Fences, and the magnificent Moonlight to…

  • Our love is colour blind but we face prejudice – Northern Ireland mixed race couples tell of their experiences The Belfast Telegraph 2016-11-28 Kerry McKittrick With film A United Kingdom at cinemas now, a true story documenting the political fall-out from an inter-racial relationship in Britain and South Africa of the 1940s, Kerry McKittrick talks…

  • When Carina Ray was an undergraduate at University of California at Santa Cruz in 1993, she was drawn to study abroad in Ghana because she wanted to connect with her Puerto Rican family’s African roots. The trip ended up being the beginning of a career dedicated to the study of what blackness means in West…

  • Shanya Hayes | In Her Own Voice The Insight Center for Community Economic Development Oakland, California 2016-11-03 Shanya Hayes is going places. While many students her age spend their summer vacations doing anything but school work, this bright young scholar has been staking out her future. And as her ambition leads her toward new understandings,…

  • This article examines two paintings from the antebellum period, “The Slave Market” (ca. 1859) by an unidentified artist and “The Freedom Ring” (1860) by Eastman Johnson, which involve the purchase of nearly white slaves, and attempts to delineate the motivation for presenting these images before the public. These paintings functioned much as slave narratives, and…

  • Meet Shereen Marisol Meraji, A Latina Journalist Tackling Race & Idendity Through Podcasting Latina 2016-11-23 Raquel Reichard, Politics & Culture Editor Hugo Rojo With Donald Trump, a candidate who ran on racism, xenophobia, sexism, Islamophobia and a disdain for journalists, heading to the White House, reports by and about the communities most impacted by the…

  • And people bleach in Asia — lightening creams and lotions are as ubiquitous in drugstores in Seoul as eye shadow. They do it in Europe, despite the restrictions there on sales of hydroquinone. You can walk into any number of black beauty salons in London and find bleaching creams and lotions. But Africa? If you…