Author: Steven

  • Global Mixed Race New York University Press March 2014 357 pages Cloth ISBN: 9780814770733 Paper ISBN: 9780814789155 Edited by: Rebecca Chiyoko King-O’Riain, Senior Lecturer National University of Ireland, Maynooth Stephen Small, Associate Professor of African American Studies University of California, Berkeley Minelle Mahtani, Associate Professor in the Department of Human Geography and the Program in…

  • Explores how the trope of racial passing continues to serve as a touchstone for gauging public beliefs and anxieties about race in this multiracial era.

  • Marrying Out: Jewish Men, Intermarriage, and Fatherhood Indiana University Press 2014-08-01 286 pages 31 b&w illus. 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-253-01319-4 Keren R. McGinity, Author-Educator Love & Tradition: intermarriage insights for a Jewish future When American Jewish men intermarry, goes the common assumption, they and their families are “lost” to the Jewish religion. In…

  • Mixed Mondays Film Series at the Brooklyn Historical Society Crossing Borders, Bridging Generatons Brooklyn Historical Society 128 Pierrepont Street Brooklyn, New York 11201 Mondays, 2014-08-04 through  2014-08-18, 18:30 EDT (Local Time) Hosted by and post-screening discussion with: Erica Chito Childs, Professor of Sociology (author of Navigating Interracial Borders and Fade to Black and White: Interracial Images in…

  • In this work, González dismantles the myth of a dominant Spanish and racially white national culture in Puerto Rican history. He claims that the national identity is primarily Mestizo (mixed race) with a significant contribution from Africa. González calls the African slaves and Mestizo peasantry the first Puerto Ricans because they were the first inhabitants…

  • I received more than a few raised eyebrows after describing the recent trip my wife and I took to attend the Black German Cultural Society of New Jersey’s Second Annual Convention at Barnard College in New York. If you are tempted to believe that being both Black and German is an oxymoron; think again.

  • The Leftovers Sunday Book Review The New York Times 2014-08-15 Alexander Chee ‘Everything I Never Told You,’ by Celeste Ng Celeste Ng’s debut novel, “Everything I Never Told You,” is a literary thriller that begins with some stock elements: a missing girl, a lake, a local bad boy who was one of the last to…

  • “No, I meant where are you really from?” on being black and German Media Diversified 2014-08-15 Ella Achola School of Oriental and African Studies, London “No, I meant where are you really from?” is a micro-aggression I am all too familiar with when my simple answer of “Berlin” is perceived as insufficient to a query…

  • Are There Really Just Five Racial Groups? Slate 2012-05-17 Brian Palmer, Chief Explainer How the government developed its racial-classification system. For the first time in history, more than half of American children under the age of 1 are members of a minority group, according to figures released Wednesday by the Census Bureau. Everyone is familiar…

  • Your Face in Mine, A Novel Riverhead Books (an imprint of Penguin Press) 2014-08-14 384 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9781594488344 ePub ISBN: 9780698168817 Jess Row An award-winning writer delivers a poignant and provocative novel of identity, race and the search for belonging in the age of globalization. One afternoon, not long after Kelly Thorndike has moved…