Tag: Emily Bernard

  • Thomas Chatterton Williams loses his race

  • Nella Larsen was a mystery in life, and a mystery after her death in 1964. According to biographers, when she died her half sister inherited the $35,000 that remained in Larsen’s savings, then said she didn’t know she had a half sister. Which wasn’t true. Yet, in many ways, it’s the response you expect.

  • Obama and Race: History, Culture, Politics Routledge 2011-11-10 200 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-68678-5 Edited by Richard H. King, Professor Emeritus of American and Canadian Studies University of Nottingham In this collection, academics from both sides of the Atlantic analyze the confluence of a politician, a process, and a problem—Barack Obama, the 2008 US presidential election,…

  • Prologue: the riddle of race Patterns of Prejudice Volume 45, Issue 1 & 2 (Special Issue: Obama and Race) (2011) Pages 4-14 DOI: 10.1080/0031322X.2011.563141 Emily Bernard, Associate Professor of English and ALANA [African Americans, Latinos/as, Asian Americans and Native Americans] US Ethnic Studies University of Vermont James Vellacott, ‘President Obama shakes the hand of PC…