MIRIAM (Duchess) HARRIS by DALE RICARDO SHIELDS “I wouldn’t trade nothing for my journey now.“ Dr. Harris is an Associate Professor of American Studies at Macalester College. She joined the faculty in 1998 and has expertise in 20th-century political history, feminist theory, and race and the law. “The more powerful and original a mind, the …
Media Depictions of the Mammy Archetype by Dale Ricardo Shields The Mammy archetype is one of the most notable Black stereotypes and caricatures which exist in American culture. “In reality, the pancake mix was the creation of two White men in Missouri, and they named it after a character in a minstrel song, not an …
HATTIE McDANIEL 1895 – 1952 ______________________________________ By Dale Ricardo Shields All Rights Reserved – iforcolor.org “Why should I complain about making seven hundred dollars a week playing a maid? If I didn’t, I’d be making seven dollars a week actually being one” ~*~ [ We only need 99 more signatures to reach the next goal …
John Hope Franklin 1915-2009 Archived by Dale Ricardo Shields “We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey;” ― John Hope Franklin John Hope Franklin (January 2, 1915 – March 25, 2009) was an …
Dr. Yvonne Carter Williams Hampton and Esther Boswell Distinguished University Professor of Black Studies. Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University; M.A., University of Connecticut; B.A., Pennsylvania State University. By Dale Ricardo Shields ~*****~ “Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.” – Arthur Schopenhauer …
