Mixed Race Studies

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  • “Little White Lie: A Film about Dual Identity and Family Secrets” with Lacey Schwartz

    “Little White Lie: A Film about Dual Identity and Family Secrets” with Lacey Schwartz Taube Center for Jewish Studies Stanford University Center For Educational Research (Room 101) 520 Galvez Mall Stanford, California 2015-10-28, 19:00 PDT (Local Time) “Between Race and Religion: Contemporary American Jewish Life” series with the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and…

  • Designing Afro-Latino Curriculum for Self-Determination

    Designing Afro-Latino Curriculum for Self-Determination Zambombazo 2015-10-23 Zachary & Betsy Jones Introduction During the 2015 Afrolatino Festival of New York in a panel discussion on the contextualization of blackness, William Garcia briefly mentioned working to implement Afro-Latino curriculum in schools, which greatly intrigued us. Thus, we reached out to him to learn more. His amazingly…

  • Panel talks multiracial identity in academics

    Panel talks multiracial identity in academics The Michigan Daily 2015-10-27 Alexa St John, Daily Staff Reporter According to a 2015 Pew Research Center report, 6.9 percent of all Americans 18 and older identify as multiracial. According to the University’s Office of the Registrar, last year, just over 3 percent of students identified as two or…

  • Global Families: A History of Asian International Adoption in America

    Global Families: A History of Asian International Adoption in America New York University Press October 2013 244 pages 17 halftones Cloth ISBN: 9780814717226 Paper ISBN: 9781479892174 Catherine Ceniza Choy, Professor of Ethnic Studies University of California, Berkeley In the last fifty years, transnational adoption—specifically, the adoption of Asian children—has exploded in popularity as an alternative…

  • Black Mexico: The African Roots in Mexico

    Black Mexico: The African Roots in Mexico Western Connecticut State University Student Center Theater 181 White Street Danbury, Connecticut Wednesday, 2015-10-28, 10:50 EDT (Local Time) Gloria Arjona, Lecturer in Spanish California Institute of Technology, Pasadena In Celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month Dr. Gloria Arjona, a lecturer at CalTech Pasadena and University of Southern California, will…

  • B. Iden Payne Awards 2015 Winners and Nominees

    B. Iden Payne Awards 2015 Winners and Nominees B. Iden Payne Awards Austin, Texas 2015-10-26 Below are the nominees for the 2014-2015 theatrical season. THEATER FOR YOUTH: 2014 – 2015  Season Outstanding Production Winner: Am I White / Salvage Vanguard Theater Outstanding Direction Winner: Jenny Larson / Am I White, Salvage Vanguard Theater Outstanding Lead…

  • Blackness and Mestizaje in Mexico and Central America

    Blackness and Mestizaje in Mexico and Central America Africa World Press 2013 176 pages ISBN: 978-1592219339 Edited by: Elisabeth Cunin, Sociologist Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, France Odile Hoffmann, Geographer Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, France American configurations, because of their originality, force us to adopt plural visions, toward the margins, with particular…

  • Multiracial Teens Talk About Their Identity Rip Tides

    Multiracial Teens Talk About Their Identity Rip Tides Women’s eNews 2015-10-27 Stephanie Geier, Teen Voices for Women’s eNews The pressures and rejections come from within, from peers, from different sides of their families. “No matter how hard I tried I was always too white for the black kids and too black for the white kids,”…

  • Brilliant Ideas: Artist Ellen Gallagher

    Brilliant Ideas: Artist Ellen Gallagher Bloomberg Business 2015-09-14 “Brilliant Ideas” looks at the most exciting and acclaimed artists at work in the world today. On this episode, Ellen Gallagher talks to Bloomberg. (Source: Bloomberg)

  • Alumna and author Danzy Senna visits high school

    Alumna and author Danzy Senna visits high school The Sagamore: Brookline High School’s student newspaper Brookline High School, Brookline, Massachusetts 2015-09-29 Sam Klein, Valentina Rojas-Posada and Sofia Tong Danzy Senna, alumna and author of junior and senior summer reading book Caucasia, came to the high school today for a day of discussions with students and…