Author: Steven

  • Sept. 15 to Oct. 15 is being celebrated as Hispanic Heritage Month, but the some say the word “Hispanic” should be retired, and would rather be referred to as Latino. Host Michel Martin speaks to four Latinos with varying opinions on the subject — syndicated columnist Ruben Navarrette, Afro-Latino Activist Roland Roebuck, “Ask a Mexican”…

  • Sesquicentennial Event Addresses Colorado Inequality Clarion: The University of Denver’s Newwspaper Since 1892 Denver, Colorado 2014-10-21 Carissa Cherpes DU hosted a Sesquicentennial Conversation entitled Miscegenation Law, Marriage Equality, and the West 1864-2014 on Oct. 15 in the Sturm College of Law. Over 50 students, faculty and others gathered to listen to three panelists lecture on…

  • MISC Shows Fourth Annual Identity Project The Smith Sophian: The Independent Newspaper of Smith College Northampton, Massachusetts 2014-11-13 Nicole Wong ’17, Arts Editor The Identity Project is an annual photo exhibition in which students, faculty and staff of the Smith community are photographed and given the opportunity to define who they are in their own…

  • Dr. Rainbow Johnson: Tracee Ellis Ross and Mixed Race on Black-ish Kaleido[scopes]: Diaspora Re-imagined Williams College Student Research Journal 2014-10-27 Michelle May-Curry, Contributing Writer Mixed race women. The tragic mulatta, the jezebel, the code-switcher, the new millennium mulatta, and the exceptional multiracial are terms and ideas that audiences subconsciously pull from to index mixed race…

  • ‘William Wells Brown,’ by Ezra Greenspan The New York Times Sunday Book Review 2014-11-14 Nell Irvin Painter, Edwards Professor of American History, Emerita Princeton University Greenspan, Ezra, William Wells Brown: An African American Life (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2014) If the publishing industry reflects the American zeitgeist, things have changed when it…

  • What was once a shameful taboo with a deep, dark racist history is now the face of the modern world. But how far have we really come in our acceptance of mixed race people?

  • The Pose as Interventionist Gesture: Erica Lord and Decolonizing the Proper Subject of Memory E-Misférica Decolonial Gesture, Volume 11, Issue 1, 2014 Colleen Kim Daniher School of Communication Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois This article investigates the decolonial politics of the pose in the photographic and installation work of mixed-race Native Alaskan artist Erica Lord. Refiguring…

  • It’s her Ferguson — and it’s not all black and white Cable News Network (CNN) 2014-11-17 Moni Basu Ferguson, Missouri (CNN) — Stefannie Wheat carried a yard sign all the way from her Midwestern town to the nation’s capital. She visited the White House and tucked it into the guard rail. “I Love Ferguson,” it…

  • A Post-Genomic Surprise: the molecular reinscription of race in science, law and medicine The London School of Economics and Political Science Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building London, United Kingdom 2014-11-06 Speaker: Troy Duster, Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy University of California, Berkeley Chair: Nigel Dodd, Professor of Sociology…

  • Reflections on the 2014 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference Multiracial Asian Families: thinking about race, families, children, and the intersection of mixed ID/Asian 2014-11-16 Sharon H. Chang Ah. Where do I begin. I’m sitting on a plane waiting to takeoff to Seattle (correction, taking off) thinking on my last 3 days in Chicago at the…