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  • Bocafloja Confronts Anti-Blackness Across the Americas in New Documentary ‘Nana Dijo’ Remezcla 2016-02-17 Walter Thompson-Hernández Los Angeles, California When musicians and filmmakers Bocafloja and Cambiowashere first set out to create Nana Dijo, a gripping documentary about the African diaspora in the Americas, both wanted to stray away from traditional documentary approaches that have tended to…

  • Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the Racial Divide William Morrow (an imprint of HarperCollins) 2015-09-08 384 pages Trimsize: 6 in (w) x 9 in (h) x 1.21 in (d) Hardcover ISBN: 9780062305251 Paperback ISBN: 9780062305268 E-book ISBN: 9780062305275 Joy-Ann Reid Barack Obama’s speech on the Edmund Pettus Bridge to mark the fiftieth anniversary of…

  • This photo of Obama and a little visitor at a Black History Month celebration is remarkable The Washington Post 2016-02-20 Janell Ross Clark Reynolds, 3, is greeted by President Obama during a Black History Month Celebration held Feb.18, 2016, at the White House in Washington, D.C. (Pete Souza/White House) For 3-year-old Clark Reynolds, Thursday began…

  • Storytelling matters to Stanford historian Allyson Hobbs Stanford News Stanford University, Stanford, California 2016-02-19 Kate Chesley, Associate Director of University Communications Allyson Hobbs and her award-winning book, A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life ALLYSON HOBBS, assistant professor of American history, finds much of the inspiration for her research in the…

  • 9 Benefits of Being in an Intercultural Marriage Masala Mommas: An Online Magazine for Today’s Moms with a South Asian Connection 2016-02-17 Alexandra Madhavan My husband is from South India and I am Canadian. We are the living, walking, breathing epitome of cultural differences – he is Hindu, I am Catholic; he is a strict…

  • ASA 115: Mixed Race Expeiences University of California, Davis 2012-2016 Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde, Associate Professor of Asian American Studies “Even after our first ‘black’ president ushered in a so-called ‘post racial America,’ we understood that there is much more to the race issue than what has been presented.” Using the theme of Race Traitors, this…

  • I sat beside Obama at the Black Lives Matter meeting. This was no political show The Guardian 2016-02-20 Brittany Packnett The author sits beside Barack Obama’s in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on 18 February. Photograph: Carolyn Kaster/AP Some political meetings devolve into theater. Not this one: we all spoke direct truth to…

  • Skin color matters in Latino/a communities: Identifying, understanding, and addressing Mestizaje racial ideologies in clinical practice. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice Volume 47, Issue 1 (Feb 2016) pages 46-55 DOI: 10.1037/pro0000062 Hector Y. Adames, Professor of Clinical Counseling Psychology Nayeli Y. Chavez-Dueñas, Child Clinical Psychologist, Professor, Researcher Kurt C. Organista, Associate Dean; Professor of Social…

  • Mom Writes Book, ‘Bad Hair Does Not Exist!’ For Daughters NBC News 2016-02-17 Maya Chung Bad Hair Does Not Exist/Pelo Malo No Existe! is a Children’s Book by Sulma Arzu-Brown. “Bad Hair Does Not Exist!” is a new bilingual book that encourages young Black, Afro-Latino, and multi-racial girls to see themselves, and their hair, as…

  • Call for papers: Mana Tangatarua: Mixed heritages and biculturalism in Aotearoa/New Zealand Dr Zarine L. Rocha 2015-11-22 Deadline: 29 February 2016 This volume seeks to explore the diversity of research on “mixed race”/mixed ethnic identity in Aotearoa/New Zealand. “Mixed race” identities have been the subject of growing scholarly interest over the past two decades, particularly…