AV Brew – Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America

Originally posted on Pop Culture Uncovered:
If I had to boil down the thesis of Jeffrey Robinson’s lecture, Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America to a sentence, racism in America is as older than the U.S.A. itself. Using archival video, reviewing historical and current law, and the US Constitution, Robinson details how…

Too White Bread for This Shit: Race and Racism in Laurell K Hamilton’s Urban Fantasy Series

Originally posted on Stitch's Media Mix:
“I’m so white-bread, if you cut me I’d bleed bleached flour! I have no ethnicity to me, and I’ve always wanted some.” – Laurell K. Hamilton in an interview excerpted from Locus Magazine. I’ve been reading Laurell K. Hamilton’s urban fantasy series – the necromancer-focused Anita Blake series…