Month: December 2016

  • Elizabeth Anionwu’s Memoir: Mixed Blessings From A Cambridge Union Exceeds All Superlatives The Huffington Post 2016-12-28 Claudia Tomlinson, Author, campaigner, entrepreneur London, England Emeritus Professor Elizabeth Anionwu: Photograph by Barney Newman Elizabeth Anionwu is a diminutive woman of colossal talent in everything she has turned her hand to, and to top off a high achieving…

  • The Blackwashing of President Obama’s Legacy The Root 2016-12-27 Daniel Johnson There is a deeply embedded danger in the collective black American consciousness to defend the cultural and political blackness of President Barack Obama. On the surface, his very presence  in the Oval Office is an act of political revolution, an unprecedented response to this…

  • The double life of Injun Joe Maclean’s 1956-07-21 Dorothy Sangster [Katz] (1913-2011) The tourists at Algonquin Park think they’re meeting a real live redskin in a tribal tepee. Indian schmindian! He’s Tex Boyden, who reads the New Yorker, sips Martinis and makes his living selling beads to the white natives When Erl Boyden was five…

  • Partnered fathers bringing up their mixed-/multi-race children: an exploratory comparison of racial projects in Britain and New Zealand Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power Published online: 2015-09-23 DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.2015.1091320 Rosalind Edwards, Professor of Sociology; Social Sciences Director of Research and Enterprise; Co-director, ESRC National Centre for Research Methods University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom…

  • Special Relationships: mixed-race couples in post-war Britain and the United States Women’s History Review Volume 26, 2017 – Issue 1: Revisioning the History of Girls and Women in Britain in the Long 1950s pages 110-129 DOI: 10.1080/09612025.2015.1123027 Clive Webb, Professor of Modern American History University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom This article uses a transatlantic…

  • Author Joseph Boyden’s shape-shifting Indigenous identity APTN National News Aboriginal Peoples Television Network Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada 2016-12-23 Jorge Barrera Three Day Road author Joseph Boyden’s uncle went by the alias “Injun Joe” and wore a headdress while selling drums made of tin cans wrapped in birch and other “Indian” items to tourists from a shop…

  • When the Serendipitously Named Lovings Fell in Love, Their World Fell Apart Smithsonian.com 2016-12-23 Christopher Wilson, Director of the African American History Program and Experience and Program Design Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C. The new film captures the quiet essence of the couples’ powerful story, says Smithsonian scholar Christopher Wilson “My theory…

  • My President Is Biracial Multiracial Media: Voice of the Multiracial Community 2016-12-27 TaRessa Stovall Atlanta, Georgia Remember that 2008 post-election rap anthem? “My President is Black; in fact, he’s half White So even in a racist mind he’s half right —Jay-Z and Young Jeezy’s “My President” That’s what runs through my mind as I read…

  • Anthropologist and sociologist Jacques Audinet proposes an alternative to culture wars and simple multiculturalism as he explores the history and evolution of mestizaje, the mixing of races and cultures resulting in a third and new force able to ease the tensions between the original two.

  • Meet the black Americans going home to China Cable News Network (CNN) 2016-12-27 Yazhou Sun, Producer CNN International Paula Madison grew up knowing she was different. Born in the predominantly African-American neighborhood of Harlem, New York, she was raised by a single mother who looked Chinese. “When my mother opened the door and told me…