Tag: Wisconsin

  • Great Lakes Creoles: A French-Indian Community on the Northern Borderlands, Prairie du Chien, 1750–1860 Cambridge University Press September 2014 326 pages 25 b/w illus. 6 maps 7 tables 236 x 157 x 22 mm Hardback ISBN: 9781107052864 Paperback ISBN: 9781107674745 eBook ISBN: 9781139990660 Lucy Eldersveld Murphy, Professor of History Ohio State University, Newark A case…

  • “We Called That Touch” Boston Review 2016-03-28 Ed Pavlić, Professor of English and Creative Writing University of Georgia Race and the Intimate Tangle of American Experience It might seem to you that I am white. Then again, depending upon how and where we meet—and upon things in your life I know nothing about—it might seem…

  • Young Gifted Black Isthmus Madison, Wisconsin 2015-05-01 Allison Geyer, Staff Writer Fiery activist group praised and panned for disruptive protests in name of racial equality Dozens of protesters with the Young, Gifted and Black Coalition marched on March 19 to a mayoral forum at the Barrymore Theatre, where two white, progressive mayoral candidates were preparing…

  • BEST OF 2015: Not Quite White Madison365 Madison, Wisconsin 2015-12-29 Matthew Braunginn Matthew Braunginn I may never be able to truly “pass” or to be “race neutral.” I have always been and always will be “not quite white.” I reject those terms because I have been othered on their terms. I can never fully fit…

  • Tony Robinson’s mother files civil rights lawsuit over fatal police shooting of son The Guardian 2015-08-13 Zoe Sullivan Andrea Irwin alleges officer Matt Kenny violated 14th amendment equal protection rights and fourth amendment right against unreasonable searches The mother of a biracial man killed by a white police officer in Madison, Wisconsin, has filed a…

  • Pew: Multiracial Americans Now Make Up 7% Of Population Wisconsin Public Radio Thursday, 2015-06-11, 16:35 CDT Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Jennifer Sims, Adjunct Visiting Professor of Sociology University of Wisconsin, River Falls According to Census data, only about 2 percent of Americans consider themselves to be multiracial, but a new report…

  • Who is Ismael Ozanne, Wisconsin’s prosecutor in Tony Robinson’s death? Cable News Network (CNN) 2015-05-12 Michael Martinez, Newsdesk Editor & Writer (CNN) Ismael Ozanne wiped a handkerchief across his forehead, nervously tapped a stack of papers on the podium and slowly cleared his throat. It wasn’t the first time he’d made history; that happened in…

  • No Charges for Wisconsin Officer in Killing of Unarmed Black Teenager The New York Times 2015-05-12 Richard Pérez-Peña (@perezpena), National Desk A Madison, Wis., police officer who killed an unarmed black man in March, in one of a spate of similar incidents that have set off protests around the country, will not face criminal charges,…

  • Tony Terrell Robinson was shot dead by Madison police. This is how it happened The Guardian 2015-03-13 Oliver Laughland, Senior Reporter Guardian US Zoe Sullivan Robinson as a child. ‘There is something so beautiful about a black kid, especially in America, trying to make it against all odds and fucking up so bad, but then…

  • Madison Police Shooting: Not Just About Race Because Victim Was Biracial, Family Says ABC News 2015-03-09 Meghan Keneally, Digital Reporter The uncle of the 19-year-old who was fatally shot by a police officer in Madison, Wisconsin, over the weekend said that his nephew “just wanted to be loved.” Tony Robinson Jr., who was known to…