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  • Rep. Mike Honda: Obama is First Asian-American President

    Rep. Mike Honda: Obama is First Asian-American President U.S. News & World Report 2012-09-05 Lauren Fox, Political Reporter The details of Bill Clinton’s youth, along with a number of his hobbies while in the White House, often led some people to call Clinton “America’s first black president.” Now that the country’s actual first black president…

  • Living in Ambiguity with Carl Olsen

    Living in Ambiguity with Carl Olsen Mixed Race Radio 2012-09-05, 16:00Z (12:00 EDT, 09:00 PDT) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host Carl Olsen Colorado State Univeristy Carl is a regular guest on Mixed Race Radio and self- identifies as Japanese and White. Originally Carl was going to discuss his experience being marked as white on a traffic…

  • In Michigan, most people identify me as Asian, but here in California, I’m a white guy.

    “In Michigan, most people identify me as Asian, but here in California, I’m a white guy,” Mark-Griffin said… Chelsea Hawkins, “Mixed But Not Divided: Multi-ethnic populations redefine racial lines,” City on a Hill Press: A Student-Run Newspaper (University of California, Santa Cruz), October 20, 2011. http://www.cityonahillpress.com/2011/10/20/mixed-but-not-divided/

  • Black Talk, Blue Thoughts, and Walking the Color Line: Dispatches from a Black Journalista

    This lively and thoughtful book explores what it means to be black in an allegedly postracial America

  • The Dougla in Trinidad’s Consciousness

    The Dougla in Trinidad’s Consciousness History in Action: Online Journal of The University of the West Indies (St. Augustine. Trinidad and Tobago) Dept. of History Volume 2, Number 1 (April 2011) 7 pages ISSN: 2221-7886 Feme Louanne Regis University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad is a complex multi-ethnic society where…

  • Today, Asian and Latino Americans who are light-skinned and have high economic status, particularly those who have white partners, may also gain entry into the white race.

    Irish and Italian Americans came to be considered members of the white race as their assimilation provided them with the material resources that allowed them to move away from the menial labor that was seen as synonymous with being black. Occupational and class mobility along with the loss of ethnic identity allowed these groups to…

  • Four years later, Barack Obama still a mystery in some ways

    Four years later, Barack Obama still a mystery in some ways The Dallas Morning News 2012-09-01 From staff and wire reports File: The welcome in Austin in 2007 was warm and Texan for presidential candidate Barack Obama. Still somewhat unknown Even after four years as president, Barack Hussein Obama remains unknown in some ways. He…

  • Latin America and mixed heritage

    Latin America and mixed heritage The Prisma: The Multicultural Newspaper Westwood Hill, London, United Kingdom 2012-08-27 Claudio Chipana (Translated by Viv Griffiths) “…we are neither Indian, nor European, but a species lying somewhere in between the legitimate owners of the land and the Spanish usurpers…” Simon Bolivar (Letter from Jamaica). People of mixed heritage, mestizos,…

  • Roots: Saint Lucia’s Hindu Legacy

    Roots: Saint Lucia’s Hindu Legacy Hinduism Today October/November/December 2012 Gajanan Nataraj Saint Lucia I am a Saint Lucian citizen. I was born in the US Virgin Islands and lived briefly on the mainland (USA), but for the better part of 23 years I was raised on the Caribbean island of Saint Lucia. I am roughly two-quarters…

  • Latinos may get own race category on census form

    Latinos may get own race category on census form The Seattle Times 2012-08-30 Lornet Turnbull, Staff Reporter Under proposed changes under consideration by the Census Bureau in its once-a-decade census forms, Latino and Hispanic would be added to the list of government-defined races, rather than being listed separately as an ethnicity. And people from the…