Author: Steven

  • Latinos and Whiteness: On Being Sold An Empty White Privilege Knapsack Race-work, Race-love 2014-06-13 Blanca E. Vega (@BlancaVNYC), writer, educator, and race-worker Sophia (@sophiagurule) on May 30th replied to my tweet about White Supremacy and Latinidad: “‪@BlancaVNYC : and yep ‪#nuncamas. this [choosing White on the Census] has haunted/shaped my life, and used against me,…

  • Say Hapa, With Care AAPI Voices: Amplifying the voices of Asian Pacific America. 2014-06-18 Sharon Chang, Guest Columnist What does Hapa mean?  One way to know is to look at the ways in which the word is used. It’s a “Hawaiian word for ‘mixed-race’,” says Hapa Kitchen Supper Club, “coined to refer to people of…

  • Seoul International Seminar on Racism/Mixed Race in Korea and Japan Yonsei University, South Korea 2014-06-21 through 2014-06-22 Co-organized & Sponsored by Department of Cultural Anthropology & Institute of Korean Studies, Yonsei University …1:30-3:30 pm Mixed race/blood in modern Japan (Chair: Lee Sang Kook, Yonsei University) A.K.M. Skarpelis (NYU Sociology and Institute of Social Science, University…

  • Search through own heritage leads evangelist to story about enslaved mixed-race pastor The Advocate Baton Rouge, Louisiana 2014-06-16 Mark H. Hunter, Special to The Advocate If local school district officials knew then what Sammy Tippit knows now, he might not have been allowed to attend Istrouma High School. Tippit, 66, is a world-renowned evangelist who…

  • On The Census, Who Checks ‘Hispanic,’ Who Checks ‘White,’ And Why Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2014-06-16 Gene Demby, Lead Blogger We’ve been talking a lot lately about how who fills out the Census in what way. It’s an ongoing preoccupation of Code Switch, and one shared by Julie…

  • When Dad Wiped Away My Tears: Accepting a Child’s Vulnerability Psychology Today 2014-06-15 Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu Ed.D. Stanford University I thought summer camp would be endless fun. My two best friends were going and I wanted to go with them so badly I asked my dad to lie about my age so I could get in.…

  • Black Identity and Racism Collide in Brazil The Root 2014-06-17 Dion Rabouin The country’s complex history with race gains the spotlight as the World Cup attempts to address the recent wave of racist attacks against black players. Before teams representing their countries from around the world arrived in Brazil, the country’s president, Dilma Rousseff, took…

  • Japanese Brazilians celebrate mixed heritage Al Jazeera 2014-06-17 Jillian Kestler-D’Amour, Online Producer Sao Paulo, Brazil – The room was a mixture of Brazilian green and yellow and Japanese red and white, as more than 200 members of the city’s large Japanese community turned out to watch the country of their ancestors take on Cote d’Ivoire…

  • People from Mexico show stunning amount of genetic diversity Science 2014-06-12 Lizzie Wade, Latin America Correspondent Imagine if people from Kansas and California were as genetically distinct from each other as someone from Germany is from someone from Japan. That’s the kind of remarkable genetic variation that scientists have now found within Mexico, thanks to…

  • LeiLani Nishime explores the Asian American experience in her new book The Seattle Globalist 2014-03-25 Diane Han University of Washington We understand that race doesn’t exist biologically, but it doesn’t mean that race isn’t real. “We think we see race because it exists in the world, but really, we learn to see race,” says LeiLani…