Author: Steven

  • Proving Race Ms. Food Queen: Cooking Across Difference August 2014 Christine Gregory I am standing in the lobby of a Korean restaurant. In the split second before I’m seated, I make a conscious decision of whether or not to speak Korean. I know that if I do, it will lead to many benefits, tangible and…

  • Join the Greatest Minds Society of Georgia State University for a Discussion on Racial Identity with Playwright Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni of “One Drop of Love“ Georgia State University Speaker’s Auditorium 44 Courtland Street, SE Atlanta, Georgia 30303 Thursday, 2014-09-18, 13:30-15:30 EDT (Local Time) Who are you? What’s your identity? Where do you come from? What’s…

  • Filmmaker in Focus: Lacey Schwartz Trinidad+Tobago Film Festival 2014 2014-09-11 Aurora Herrera Throughout history and for various reasons, many people who are not white have passed for white. But how many people have passed without knowing they were doing so? That is precisely what the documentary Little White Lie, a deeply personal film by Lacey…

  • David Palumbo-Liu interviews Ruth Ozeki Los Angeles Review of Books 2014-09-16 David Palumbo-Liu, Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor; Professor of Comparative Literature and English Stanford University Where We Are for the Time Being with Ruth Ozeki Ruth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker, and a Zen Buddhist priest. She is the author of three novels: My Year…

  • Challenger Upends Brazilian Race for Presidency The New York Times 2014-09-15 Simon Romero, Brazil Bureau Chief RIO DE JANEIRO — When Dilma Rousseff and Marina Silva were both cabinet ministers, they clashed on everything from building nuclear power plants to licensing huge dams in the Amazon. Ms. Rousseff came out on top, emerging as the…

  • Making Race Count in the Census New York University King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center 53 Washington Square South New York, New York 10012 Wednesday, 2014-09-17, 18:30-21:00 EDT (Local Time) Are Hispanics becoming white? Are Latin@s a race? How can we account for race and ethnicity in ways that best represent our interests? Can…

  • From Harlem to Shenzhen: One Jamaican-Chinese Woman’s Quest to Find Her Family The Wall Street Journal 2014-09-02 Debra Bruno Growing up in New York’s Harlem, Paula Williams Madison knew she had a Chinese grandfather, even though she had never met him. When people found out, she says, most of them would make comments such as…

  • A mixed-race German confronts white supremacists face-to-face, including the Klan Public Radio International 2014-09-15 Leo Hornak, Producer Susie Blair, Producer Most people would probably run for shelter if confronted with death threats. But Mo Asumang had a different impulse: “I don’t want to hide — it’s not my nature.” Asumang — who is half-German and…

  • The Morristown Festival of Books is Proud to Announce the Authors for September 26 and 27, 2014 Morristown Festival of Books: Where Readers & Authors Meet Morristown, New Jersey 2014-06-24 We are pleased to present our Friday night Keynote speaker and 21 authors appearing at the all-day Saturday Festival! They will be sharing their perspectives…

  • Footprints of my other 2012 52 minutes Claude Haffner Born to a mixed race couple in the DRC, then Zaire, in the 1970s, Claude Haffner is part Congolese, part French. From her family home in France, Claude Haffner embarks on a journey in search of her African identity. She is of mixed race, born in…