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  • Faces In Between: Art About Mixed-Race Identity CBC Here and Now Toronto 2013-02-01 Throughout history, artists have drawn upon their own experience to fuel their work. Tonight, a new exhibit explores mixed race identity from the point of view of three young women. Rema Tavares is one of the artists. She spoke about “Faces In…

  • The Negro: A Menace to American Civilization The Gorham Press 1907 281 pages Library of Congress: E185.61 .S38 R. W. Shufeldt, M.D. (1850-1934) Contents I. Man’s Place in Nature from a Biological Standpoint. II. The Ethnological Status of the Negro. III. The Introduction of the Negro into the United States.—The African Slave Trade. IV. Biological…

  • The Relations of the Advanced and the Backward Races of Mankind Clarendon Press 1903 53 pages James Bryce From page 18: Nothing really arrests intermarriage except physical repulsion, and physical repulsion exists only where there is a marked difference in physical aspect, and especially in colour. Roughly speaking (and subject to certain exceptions to be…

  • The mixture of the races began to take place almost as soon as the first Negroes and white men came into contact in America. This was the experience of the Spanish and the French as well as the English colonists. When colonization brings two dissimilar races into contact, the fusion of the races is as…

  • Mixed Race Blood, Bone Marrow Donors Needed To Save Gen Y Lives The Huffington Post-Canada 2013-01-31 Andree Lau One of Lourdess Sumners’ most vivid memories of her childhood battle with cancer was pining for real food while hooked up to a feeding tube and watching The Food Channel on TV. “It was horrible. I hated it,”…

  • AfroPoP – A Lot Like You AfroPoP PBS Video Duration: (00:56:59) Premiere Date: 2013-01-22 Episode Expires: 2013-02-22 Eliaichi Kimaro, Director A bi-racial filmmaker returns to her father’s home tribe on Mount Kilomanjaro. Premieres January 22nd on the WORLD Channel. In this award-winning and very personal documentary a young woman probes her interracial roots to find…

  • A Code To Live By In Appalachia Transom 2013-01-30 Mary Helen Miller, Producer/Reporter WUTC, 88.1 FM University of Tennessee, Chattanooga with help from: Viki Merrick, Editor There may come a day when races are so blended as to be irrelevant, but not yet. For our first 2012 Transom Donor Fund piece, producer Mary Helen Miller…

  • The Silly Debate Over Whether Obama is Black or Mixed-Race The Huffington Post 2008-06-14 Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Political Analyst and Social Issues Commentator Presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama gave the best answer to the question whether he’s black, mixed race or something in between. He recently told a Chicago fundraiser crowd that to some…

  • Hafu: The Film Hafu: The Film 2013-01-30 Megumi Nishikura, Director, Producer and Cinematographer Lara Perez Takagi, Director, Producer and Cinematographer Marcia Yumi Lise, Thematic Advisor Jilann Spitzmiller, Executive Producer Aika Miyake, Editor Winton White, Music Dear Friends, A belated happy new years to you! We have been quietly busy these past few months but have…

  • Race Relations in Virginia & Miscegenation in the South, 1776-1860 University of Massachusetts Press 1970 362 pages ISBN-10: 0870230506; ISBN-13: 978-0870230509 James Hugo Johnston (1891-1974), Professor of History University of Virginia Contents FOREWORD PREFACE PART I. THE RELATION OF THE NEGRO TO THE WHITE MAN IN VIRGINIA 1. Friendly Relations 2. Violent Relations 3. Free…