Category: Articles

  • Audiology freshman talks finding cultural identity on campus The Daily Texan: Serving the University of Texas at Austin community since 1900 2016-08-31 Henry Youtt Audiology freshman Karis Paul is the daughter of an Indian father and a half-Irish, half-Austrian mother. Mixed-race students make up only 3 percent of the students on campus. Photo Credit: Juan…

  • Love Sees No Color? Chinese American Intermarriage AsAmNews 2014-07-10 Karen Ye Editor’s Note: The following is a question and answer between reporter Karen Ye and Dr. Larry Hajime Shinagawa, Executive Director of New World Research Institute, a non-profit think tank focusing on research on new immigrants to the United States. Among his research areas are…

  • What Colin Kaepernick’s Protest Looks Like to a Black 49ers Fan The New York Times 2016-08-31 Gerald Harris, President and Managing Director The Quantum Planning Group, San Francisco, California Colin Kaepernick Credit Ben Margot/Associated Press San Francisco — Why are we, as sports fans, continually surprised when one of our heroes turns out to be…

  • It’s the summer of 1998 and I’m at the mall with my mom and my sister Anna, who has just turned 5. I’m 7. Anna and I are cranky from being too hot, then too cold, then too bored. We keep touching things we are not supposed to touch, and by the time Mom drags…

  • Interview with Jonathan Xavier Inda on Racial Prescriptions Theory, Culture & Society 2015-12-22 Sibille Merz, Doctoral Researcher Goldsmiths, University of London Questioning Racial Prescriptions: An interview with Jonathan Xavier Inda Sibille Merz: Racial Prescriptions provides a timely, illuminating and theoretically-engaged analysis of the making of BiDil, the first (and only) drug that was marketed exclusively…

  • Colin Kaepernick’s True Sin The Atlantic 2016-08-30 Adam Serwer, Senior Editor The San Francisco quarterback has been attacked for refusing to stand for the Star Spangled Banner—and for daring to criticize the system in which he thrived. It was in early childhood when W.E.B. Du Bois––scholar, activist, and black radical––first noticed The Veil that separated…

  • ‘Blind Spots’ and Other Problems in Globally Blended Families The Wall Street Journal 2016-08-31 Tracy Slater When the parents are in the majority and the kids are in the minority Perhaps your child, like my two-year-old, and many other children in globally blended families, belongs to the world’s growing mixed-ethnicity population. The World Factbook finds a…

  • Jones: Kaepernick, Lochte cases are as different as black and white The Philadelphia Inquirer 2016-08-30 Solomon Jones SAN FRANCISCO 49ers Quarterback Colin Kaepernick sits down during the national anthem to protest America’s treatment of people of color, and he is accused of being a traitor to his country. Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte is facing criminal…

  • Rodney Harrison sorry for saying Colin Kaepernick is ‘not black’ ESPN 2016-08-29 Former NFL player and current NBC analyst Rodney Harrison has apologized on Twitter after criticizing Colin Kaepernick and his refusal to stand for the national anthem while suggesting that the San Francisco 49ers quarterback is not black and doesn’t truly understand racism. In…

  • IN THE WHITE FRAME : An interview with mixed-race dancers Angel Langley & Jasmmine Ramgotra Multiracial Asian Families: thinking about race, families, children, and the intersection of mixed ID/Asian 2016-08-30 Sharon H. Chang STRANGE COUPLING is an annual juried exhibition of collaborations between University of Washington (UW) student artists and local professional artists. Over a…