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  • The Flesh of Amalgamation: Reconsidering the Position (and the Labors) of Blackness

    The Flesh of Amalgamation: Reconsidering the Position (and the Labors) of Blackness American Quarterly Volume 65, Number 2, June 2013 pages 437-446 DOI: 10.1353/aq.2013.0021 Tryon P. Woods, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Anthropology, and Crime & Justice Studies University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance and the Ruses of Memory. By Tavia Nyong’o. Minneapolis:…

  • Racial Theories in Context (Second Edition)

    Racial Theories in Context (Second Edition) Cognella 2013 224 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-60927-056-8 Edited by: Jared Sexton, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Film & Media Studies University of California, Irvine This book presents a critical framework for understanding how and why race matters — past, present, and future. The readings trace the historical…

  • In Living Colors

    In Living Colors B.L.A.C. Detroit: Black Life, Arts and Culture Magazine February 2011 Jared A. Ball, Associate Professor of Communication Studies Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland [Listen to the interview with Jared Ball and Lori Robinson on WDET in Detroit on 2011-02-01 here.] A Black man with a White mother examines the concept of multiracial identity—past,…

  • Playing Games with Race

    NOTE: This article expands on a comment on Prof. Hortense Spillers’ article “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s, Too” published on The Feminist Wire on February 25, 2011. Omar Ricks would like to thank Prof. Spillers for inviting his contribution to The Feminist Wire.

  • Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism

    Questions the ramifications of multiracialism for progressive social change.

  • Lecture: Unbearable Blackness

    Lecture: Unbearable Blackness Terror and the Inhuman (2012-10-25 through 2012-10-27) Brown University Sidney Frank Hall, Room 220 185 Meeting St. 2012-10-25, 18:30 EDT (Local Time) Jared Sexton, Associate Professor, African American Studies; Associate Professor, Film & Media Studies University of California, Irvine The Department of Modern Culture and Media presents a lecture by Jared Sexton…

  • New Americans: Rise of the Multiracials: A Documentary

    New Americans: Rise of the Multiracials: A Documentary A Work-In-Progress Documentary Eli Steele, Producer With more Americans marrying across the color line today than before, it is inevitable that the racial makeup of America’s face will forever change. Of the nine million individuals that identified themselves as multiracial on the 2010 census, more than 50…

  • ‘Mixture is a Neoliberal Good’: Mixed-Race Metaphors and Post-Racial Masks

    The first section introduces three popular metaphors about mixed-race objects and ‘racial bridges’ that Fanon used to invoke the threat of bestial, immature and consumerist Others – metaphors that were not swept away by the winds of change in the 1960s, or the decline and fall of Black internationalist movements in the 1970s.

  • Jared Sexton, Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism [Comer Review]

    Jared Sexton, Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism [Comer Review] Black Diaspora Review Volume 3, Number 1 (2012) pages 52-53 Nandi Comer Indiana University, Bloomington Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism. By Jared Sexton. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. 345 pp. “It’s proud to be able to say that… The…

  • As Racist as We Wish to Be: Project RACE, “The Talk”, Obama and the Fear of Blackness

    As Racist as We Wish to Be: Project RACE, “The Talk”, Obama and the Fear of Blackness MixedRaceStudies.org 2012-04-10 Steven F. Riley Late last year, I opined about the inability of some activists in the multiracial identity movement to combat racism.  It is difficult to combat racism if you are not anti-racist and quite impossible…