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  • In First Lady’s Roots, a Complex Path From Slavery

    In First Lady’s Roots, a Complex Path From Slavery The New York Times 2009-10-08 Rachel L. Swarns Jodi Kantor WASHINGTON — In 1850, the elderly master of a South Carolina estate took pen in hand and painstakingly divided up his possessions. Among the spinning wheels, scythes, tablecloths and cattle that he bequeathed to his far-flung…

  • Obama’s census mark reveals race views

    Obama’s census mark reveals race views The Washington Times 2010-04-30 Joseph Curl America’s first black president has deliberately shied away from spurring a national discussion on race, most recently by checking only “African-American” on his U.S. census form without offering a word of explanation about his choice. The studied silence from the bully pulpit held…

  • Stop the finger-wagging about Obama’s Census form

    Stop the finger-wagging about Obama’s Census form The Washington Post 2010-04-29 Kevin Huffman It’s tough being president. In the last year, pretty much every constituency has expressed disappointment in some facet of Barack Obama’s work or play. Now, apparently, the president is even letting down biracial children with his choice of Census categories. Elizabeth Chang…

  • Why Obama should not have checked ‘black’ on his census form

    Why Obama should not have checked ‘black’ on his census form The Washington Post 2010-04-29 Elizabeth Chang, Sunday Magazine Editor I have always considered Barack Obama to be biracial, and I had hoped that his election would help our country move beyond the tired concept of race. Unfortunately, the president is not getting with my…

  • Professor Nikki Khanna to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat

    Professor Nikki Khanna to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed. Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox and Heidi W. Durrow Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #151 – Professor Nikki Khanna When:…

  • Artist Kip Fulbeck Is Back Exploring Identity, but This Time With Children

    Artist Kip Fulbeck Is Back Exploring Identity, but This Time With Children Los Angeles Downtown News 2010-03-26 Richard Guzmán DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES – Upon entering Mixed, the recently opened show at the Japanese American National Museum, one can’t help but smile. The happy young faces depicted in the 70 photographs that make up the exhibit…

  • Do Racist Attitudes Hinder Mothers of Mixed-Race Children?

    Do Racist Attitudes Hinder Mothers of Mixed-Race Children? Science Daily 2010-04-28 Professor Ravinder Barn and Dr. Vicki Harman from the Centre for Criminology and Sociology at Royal Holloway, University of London are carrying out research into white mothers of mixed-race children. It is part of a wider study of mixed-race children and young people that…

  • Does ‘race’ matter? A study of ‘mixed race’ siblings’ identifications

    Does ‘race’ matter? A study of ‘mixed race’ siblings’ identifications Sociological Review Volume 58, Issue 2 (May 2010) Pages 265 – 285 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-954X.2010.01903.x Miri Song, Professor of Sociology University of Kent ‘Mixed’ people comprise one of the fastest growing populations in Britain today, and their growth refutes the idea that there exist distinct, ‘natural’ races…

  • Spaces of Multiraciality: Critical Mixed Race Theory

    Spaces of Multiraciality: Critical Mixed Race Theory University of Toronto Geography  (B.A.) Program 2010-2011 Course Number: GGRD19H3   From Tiger Woods to Mariah Carey, the popular mixed race phenomenon has captured the popular imagination and revealed the contradictory logic of categorization underpinning racial divisions. We will explore the complexities of racial identity formation to illuminate…

  • Obama Makes It Official: He’s African-American

    Obama Makes It Official: He’s African-American The Huffington Post 2010-04-05 Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Political Analyst and Social Issues Commentator President Obama unequivocally and unhesitatingly made it official: he’s African-American. That may sound silly and facile to say that but his checking the box “African-American” on his census form did two things. It made meaningless the…