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  • Md. Gov. Larry Hogan and his Korean-born wife, Yumi, are a historic first couple

    Md. Gov. Larry Hogan and his Korean-born wife, Yumi, are a historic first couple The Washington Post 2015-01-23 Michael S. Rosenwald, Staff Writer She was a painter displaying her abstract landscapes, a single mother of three daughters who’d grown up on a chicken farm in South Korea. He was a wealthy bachelor with more interest…

  • Mixed Race Identities: Written by Peter J. Aspinall and Miri Song

    Mixed Race Identities: Written by Peter J. Aspinall and Miri Song The Kelvingrove Review Issue 13: Dialogue Across Decades (2014-05-27) 5 pages Mengxi Pang Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity University of Glasgow, United Kingdom Aspinall, Peter J. and Miri Song, Mixed Race Identities (Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), 218 pp. As the fastest growing population…

  • Social representations of ‘mixed-race’ in early twenty-first-century Britain: content, limitations, and counter-narratives

    Social representations of ‘mixed-race’ in early twenty-first-century Britain: content, limitations, and counter-narratives Ethnic and Racial Studies Published online: 2015-01-23 19 pages DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2014.992924 Peter J. Aspinall, Emeritus Reader in Public Health Centre for Health Services Studies (CHSS) University of Kent, United Kingdom Over the last two decades, lay and professional interest in Britain’s ‘mixed-race’ population…

  • More Than a Knapsack: The White Supremacy Flower as a New Model for Teaching Racism

    This article suggests that White supremacy versus White privilege provides a clearer and more accurate conceptual understanding of how racism operates, evolves, and sustains itself. This article suggests a specific model for teaching White supremacy, the White supremacy flower, and describes the application and benefits of the model.

  • From an Intimate Distance: A Mixed Perspective on Embracing Gratitude

    From an Intimate Distance: A Mixed Perspective on Embracing Gratitude Mixed Roots Stories 2015-01-08 Kaily Heitz, Guest Blog Coordinator “The problem is not that we all have these different view of things, it is that we each consider our views the only reality. We forget that life is truly a matter of perspective.” –angel Williams,…

  • The Passing of Passing: A Peculiarly American Racial Tradition Approaches Irrelevance

    The Passing of Passing: A Peculiarly American Racial Tradition Approaches Irrelevance BlackPast.org: Remembered & Reclaimed 2014-12-14 Robert Fikes Jr., Reference Librarian San Diego State University, San Diego, California Three Harlem Women, ca. 1925 In the article below, independent scholar Robert Fikes Jr., explores a centuries-old process in the United States where African Americans with no…

  • Kevin Costner Hopes His New Movie Redefines How People Think About Race

    Kevin Costner Hopes His New Movie Redefines How People Think About Race The Huffington Post 2015-01-22 Sasha Bronner, Los Angeles Editor Kevin Costner, who just turned 60 earlier this week, can do a lot of things. “I can make a love story. I can make the American baseball movie. I can make the political thriller,…

  • The Face of Skin, Inc.: An Interview with Chinyere Evelyn Uku by Thomas Sayers Ellis

    The Face of Skin, Inc.: An Interview with Chinyere Evelyn Uku by Thomas Sayers Ellis Graywolf Press August 2013 The cover image of Thomas Sayers Ellis’s Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems features Ellis’s own black-and-white photograph of Chinyere Evelyn Uku, an African woman from Nigeria who has albinism. On the release of the paperback edition…

  • Black Cubans: Restoring US Ties Is Cool, but America, Keep Your Hang-Ups About Race at Bay

    Black Cubans: Restoring US Ties Is Cool, but America, Keep Your Hang-Ups About Race at Bay The Root 2015-01-21 Diana Ozemebhoya Eromosele, Staff Writer Will the current racial tensions in America seep into Cuba and awaken a sleeping giant? Black Cubans say probably not. It doesn’t matter how much Cuba’s culture changes now that the…

  • Where are all the interracial children’s books?

    Where are all the interracial children’s books? The Washington Post 2015-01-20 Nevin Martell Browsing the shelves of the children’s section at bookstores can be a depressing experience for the parent of an interracial youngster. I’m a mutt mixture Caucasian with roots going back to Western Europe and beyond, while my wife is from Ghana. We…