Tag: The Tavis Smiley Show

  • Allyson Hobbs – “A Chosen Exile” The Tavis Smiley Show 2014-10-31 Between the 18th and mid-20th centuries, countless fair-skinned African Americans abandoned families, friends and communities to forge new lives as white people. In her new book, “A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life”, Stanford University historian Allyson Hobbs explores the…

  • Dorothy Roberts – Fatal Invention The Tavis Smiley Show PRI: Public Radio International 2011-07-08 Tavis Smiley, Host Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology; Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights University of Pennsylvania Professor and legal scholar Dorothy Roberts explores the effects of race-based science in…

  • Mexican Art Genre Reveals 18th-Century Attitudes on Racial Mixing