Category: Articles

  • Tall, pale and handsome: why more Asian men are using skin-whitening products The Conversation 2016-11-24 Gideon Lasco, Ph.D. Candidate in Medical Anthropology Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) University of Amsterdam Jose, 19, is a college student in Puerto Princesa City, Philippines. On a regular school day, after he wakes up, he takes a…

  • Genevieve Gaignard tackles race, class and identity at the California African American Museum The Los Angeles Times 2016-11-17 Deborah Vankin, Contact Reporter Genevieve Gaignard’s identity-bending “Extra Value (After Venus)” (2016). (Genevieve Gaignard / Shulamit Nazarian) Growing up in the working-class mill town of Orange, Mass., Genevieve Gaignard wrestled with her identity. She was the fair-skinned…

  • You took a DNA test and it says you are Native American. So what? PRI’s The World Public Radio International 2016-11-24 Andrea Crossan, Senior Producer Boston, Massachusetts Have you been tempted to try one of those genetic testing kits, like the ones sold by Ancestry.com or 23andme.com? Maybe you’ve seen a commercial featuring Kim Trujillo.…

  • The first time I saw Michael Tisserand, he was walking up my doorstep, holding what appeared to be a red brick by his head, almost — but not quite– in a throwing pose. Turns out the red brick was the recently released Library of American Comics collection of “Krazy Kat” dailies for which he wrote…

  • Multiethnic Women FEM: UCLA’s Feminist Newsmagazine Since 1973 2015-12-04 Kali Croke Out of all the things that compose an individual’s identity, one’s culture (defined by similarities in ideals, religion, language, habits, etc.) is perhaps the most significant. While we mostly understand the experiences of people of different singular cultures, oftentimes the experiences of individuals with…

  • Colorism And Privilege: An Afro-Cuban American In Havana FEM: UCLA’s Feminist Newsmagazine Since 1973 2016-04-28 Graciela Barada My father, born in Cuba at the end of Castro’s Revolution, migrated to the United States in 1980. He was a young, black, Spanish-speaking political refugee who left his wife and months-old daughter behind in hopes of building…

  • Gendered (Mixed) Race FEM: UCLA’s Feminist Newsmagazine Since 1973 2016-05-26 Laura Jue “You’re so exotic.” That’s a phrase that many mixed race people like me have heard at least a few times in their lives. That sentiment is usually accompanied by other similarly dehumanizing compliments such as “mixed people are so beautiful,” “mixed babies are…

  • Zadie Smith on Male Critics, Appropriation, and What Interests Her Novelistically About Trump The Slate Book Review Slate 2016-11-16 Isaac Chotiner A wide-ranging conversation. In an interview in 2000, Zadie Smith told the Guardian about the pressure she felt after the astonishing success of her debut novel, White Teeth. “I was expected to be some…

  • 19 Black UK Actresses Who Are Killing The Game Across The Pond Essence 2016-11-17 Sydney Scott There’s tons of talent coming out of the UK, with many actresses crossing the pond and appearing in some of our favorite television shows and movies. There are too many talented actresses to name, but we had to share…

  • Amma Asante’s A United Kingdom gal-dem 2016-11-18 Grace Barber-Plentie Image via Telegraph The characters and scenarios in Amma Asante’s A United Kingdom are like ghosts – they’re long gone, long dead, and yet there is still a resonance and urgency to them that keeps pushing through to our subconscious, never letting us quite forget. Regardless…