Category: Articles

  • Jackie Kay unveiled as the new National Poet, or Makar, of Scotland The Herald Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom 2016-03-15 Phil Miller Poet and author Jackie Kay The acclaimed writer Jackie Kay is the new National Poet for Scotland. Ms Kay, who lives in Manchester, who was awarded an MBE for her services to literature in 2006,…

  • Jackie Kay’s Quest For Her Roots – Theresa Muñoz Scottish Review of Books Volume 6, Issue 3 (2010-08-12) Theresa Muñoz Adopted at birth, Jackie Kay discovered neither of her birth parents were who she’d thought they’d be, her new memoir recalls. “If you have skin my colour” writes Jackie Kay in her memoir Red Dust…

  • Respectability Politics: When Mixed Race People Police Each Other Mixed Race Feminist Blog 2016-03-17 Nicola Codner Leeds, Yorkshire, United Kingdom Respectability politics relates to the efforts of people in marginalized groups to convince their own group members to conform to the thoughts, values and practices of those in the dominant group, instead of challenging those…

  • “Whitening” and Whitewashing: Postcolonial Brazil is not an Egalitarian “Rainbow Nation” The Postcolonialist 2014-03-04 Sarah Lempp To commemorate the 500th anniversary of its “discovery” by Portuguese sailor Alvares de Cabral in 2000, Brazil officially presented itself as a “rainbow nation” without discrimination or racism; a place where people from various ethnicities live peacefully together. That…

  • Russo: Telling my biracial boys the truth The Cincinnati Enquirer Cincinnati, Ohio 2016-02-21 Regina Carswell Russo Hyde Park resident Regina Carswell Russo is a public relations professional, cultural arts ambassador and CEO of RRight Now Communications. My beautiful sons are blissfully unaware of their blended heritage. More specifically, their blended race. It’s how my husband…

  • Good Girls Don’t Date Dead Boys: Toying with Miscegenation in Zombie Films Journal of Popular Film and Television Volume 42, Issue 4, 2014 DOI: 10.1080/01956051.2014.881772 pages 176-185 Chera Kee, Assistant Professor of English Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan Concerning in-between bodies, zombie films have a unique vantage on miscegenation. Exploring earlier films alongside contemporary romantic…

  • Helping mixed-race Asian kids navigate a world that isn’t post-racial The Seattle Times 2016-03-16 Jerry Large, Columnist Sharon H. Chang is author of “Raising Mixed Race: Multiracial Children in a Post-Racial World.” (Courtesy of Sheila Addleman) Seattle author writes about the challenges of raising multiracial Asian children in America and helping then overcome racial biases.…

  • On the Boundaries of Race: Identification of Mixed-heritage Children in the United States, 1960 to 2010 Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Published online before print 2016-03-17 DOI: 10.1177/2332649216632546 Carolyn A. Liebler, Professor of Sociology University of Minnesota Socially constructed race groups have boundaries that define their membership. I study temporal trends and group-specific patterns in…

  • Critical Mixed Race Studies Is Now An Association Critical Mixed Race Studies 2016-03-16 Critical Mixed Race Studies (CMRS) is so pleased to announce we are now officially an association! Join us in becoming an inaugural member (membership = conference registration even if you can’t attend). ‪#‎CMRS2017‬ will be held at University of Southern California Feb…

  • Book Review: The ‘R’ Word by Kurt Barling The LSE Review of Books London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom 2016-03-04 Amal Shahid As the newest edition to the Provocations series from Biteback Publishing, The ‘R’ Word challenges the idea that we have entered a ‘post-racial’ society in which race no longer represents a significant…