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  • Black People Have Every Right to Distrust You For Being Light Skinned

    My dad is Black and from the US. My mom is Scottish-Irish. I came out very light skinned. For most of my early childhood I was universally read as white. It wasn’t until I hit puberty and entered into a largely Puerto Rican middle school that I started being seen as Latino—a shock both because…

  • For You Were Strangers: A Hanley & Rivka Mystery

    For You Were Strangers: A Hanley & Rivka Mystery Allium Press of Chicago 2015 320 pages 6″ x 9″ Trade Paperback ISBN: 978-0-9890535-9-4 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-9967558-0-1 D. M. Pirrone [Diane Piron-Gelman] Chicago, Illinois On a spring morning in 1872, former Civil War officer Ben Champion is discovered dead in his Chicago bedroom—a bayonet protruding from…

  • Jane Marchant: A Century of Progress

    Uncovering the story of a grandmother’s racial passing and its effect on following generations.

  • Black Enough/White Enough: The Obama Dilema

    Black Enough/White Enough: The Obama Dilema Third World Press February 2009 199 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0883783092 Rickey Hendon Foreword by: Hermene D. Hartman Barack is caught between two worlds and struggles for acceptance by either side-Black enough? White enough? It’s a fine line that he must walk, writes Illinois state Senator Rickey Hendon, in Black…

  • The Old Neighborhood, A Novel

    The Old Neighborhood, A Novel Curbside Splendor Publishing April 2014 502 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1940430003 Bill Hillmann Bill Hillmann’s debut novel, The Old Neighborhood, is the story of teenager Joe Walsh, the youngest in a large, mixed-race family living in Chicago. After Joe witnesses his older brother commit a gangland murder, his friends and family…

  • Vanishing Eden: White Construction of Memory, Meaning, and Identity in a Racially Changing City

    Vanishing Eden: White Construction of Memory, Meaning, and Identity in a Racially Changing City Temple University Press November 2015 198 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 978-1-43991-119-8 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-43991-118-1 eBook ISBN: 978-1-43991-120-4 Michael T. Maly, Associate Professor of Sociology; Director of the Policy Research Collaborative Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois Heather M. Dalmage, Professor of…

  • Young Mr. Obama: Chicago and the Making of a Black President

    Young Mr. Obama: Chicago and the Making of a Black President Bloomsbury Press 2010 288 pages 5 1/2″ x 8 1/4″ Hardback ISBN: 9781608190607 Edward McClelland Barack Obama’s inspirational politics and personal mythology have overshadowed his fascinating history. Young Mr. Obama gives us the missing chapter: the portrait of the politician as a young leader,…

  • 5 black Chicagoans who passed for white

    5 black Chicagoans who passed for white The Chicago Sun-Times 2015-06-16 Kim Janssen, Staff Reporter A baseball player who broke baseball’s color line decades before Jackie Robinson was born. A pioneering politician who has a West Side school named after him. An Emmy-winning “blonde bombshell.” A poet at the heart of the Harlem Renaissance. And…

  • Chicago’s Jazz Age still lives in Archibald Motley’s art

    Chicago’s Jazz Age still lives in Archibald Motley’s art The Chicago Tribune 2015-03-20 Howard Reich Where does Chicago’s Jazz Age still live? In the paintings of Archibald Motley, on view in a new exhibition Trumpets blared, saxophones thundered, singers belted and dancers swayed from nighttime to past sunup. Walk along “the Stroll” — a very…

  • Jewish tent widens as diversity grows

    Jewish tent widens as diversity grows The Chicago Tribune 2014-12-16 Bonnie Miller Rubin, Reporter Ellen Zemel (left) lends a hand for a symbolic lighting of a menorah for Hanukkah during a party for parents and children of Project Esther: The Chicago Jewish Adoption Network of the Jewish Child & Family Services, at the Elain Kersten…