Category: Articles

  • When You’re Biracial, There’s No ‘Choice’ in the Matter of Your Blackness The Root 2015-11-19 Charles D. Ellison, Contributing Editor It’s safe to wager that when well-meaning black actor Taye Diggs took a recent dip into controversy over his biracial son’s identity, there was no less than white former Mrs. Taye Diggs putting on the…

  • Taye Diggs, Embrace Blackness In Mixed Families: They’re Not Mutually Exclusive Global Grind 2015-10-18 Jada Gomez, Managing Editor Taye Diggs is set to release a second children’s book, Mixed Me, to teach young biracial children how to embrace their multicultural, multi-hued identities. But before it hits shelves, it needs a few edits… from a multiracial…

  • Interview with Filmmaker Adu Lalouschek Rooted In Magazine 2015-10-13 Annina Chirade Adu Lalouschek is a 21-year-old filmmaker from London and recent graduate of the London College of Communication [University of the Arts]. Whilst studying Film and Television at University, Adu met fellow course mate Alex Wondergem, “I first remember meeting Alex when he was drumming…

  • At Last …?: Michelle Obama, Beyoncé, Race & History Dædalus Winter 2011, Volume 140, Number 1 Posted Online 2011-03-09 pages 131-141 DOI: 10.1162/DAED_a_00065 Farah J. Griffin, William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies Columbia University In this essay, Griffin brings to the fore two extraordinary black women of our age:…

  • Postracial Mestizaje: Richard Rodriguez’s Racial Imagination in an America Where Everyone Is Beginning to Melt American Studies Volume 54, Number 1, 2015 pages 89-113 DOI: 10.1353/ams.2015.0007 Lee Bebout, Associate Professor of English Arizona State University And it seemed to me that the larger questions about America that the color raised is the fact that we…

  • It’s been a strange tale of race relations of late. On the one hand, research indicates that one in ten relationships are between people from different ethnic backgrounds. Yet on the other hand, the effects of institutional racism are as potent ever.

  • The Myth of the White Minority Critical Philosophy of Race Volume 3, Issue 2, 2015 pages 305-323 Andrew J. Pierce, Lecturer Department of Philosophy Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut In recent years, and especially in the wake of Barack Obama’s reelection, projections that whites will soon become a minority have proliferated. In this essay, I…

  • Brazil sees a rise in number of people who consider themselves black El País Madrid, Spain 2015-11-17 Marina Rossi São Paulo, Brazil English version by Martin Delfín. Participants in the “Curly Hair Pride March,” which was held in July in São Paulo. / CORDON PRESS Sociologists say changes in attitudes have made people more open…

  • THINK TANK; Uncovering an Interracial Literature of Love . . . and Racism The New York Times 2004-04-17 Emily Eakin The word miscegenation entered America’s bitter racial politics and the national lexicon by way of an ambitious hoax. On Christmas Day in 1863, an anonymous 72-page pamphlet appeared on newsstands around New York City. Titled…

  • An African King in Bolivia The New York Times 2015-11-17 David Gonzalez, Side Street Columnist; Lens Blog Co-Editor King Don Julio Pinedo being helped by his son, Rolando Pinedo, the prince, into a royal cloak. Queen Angelica oversees the details of her husband’s royal dress. Don Julio is shy and does not feel comfortable dressing…