Category: Articles

  • ‘Stunning Portraits of Mixed Race Families’?: Slate’s Human Zoo of Race Mongrelization We Are Respectable Negroes: Happy Non-Threatening Coloured Folks, Even in the Age of Obama Wednesday, 2014-06-25 Chauncey DeVega, Editor and Founder Am I the only person who found Slate.com’s photo essay “Stunning Portraits of Mixed Race Families” to be very problematic? To my…

  • Bill de Blasio and the Art of Political Image at… the Mermaid Parade The New York Times 2014-06-23 Vanessa Friedman, Chief Fashion Critic Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York with, from left, his son, Dante; his wife, Chirlane McCray; and his daughter, Chiara, at the Coney Island Mermaid Parade on Saturday. [Tina Fineberg/Associated Press]…

  • Stunning Portraits of Mixed-Race Families Slate 2014-06-24 David Rosenberg, Editor of Slate’s Behold blog Fascinated by the evolution of identity, the photographer Cyjo, who styles her name CYJO, has created a series of portraits that examines how race, ethnicity, and heritage contextualize a person as an individual, and how they coexist within the framework of…

  • Elective Race: Recognizing Race Discrimination in the Era of Racial Self-Identification Georgetown Law Journal Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Volume 102, Issue 5 (2014) pages 1501-1572 Camille Gear Rich, Associate Professor of Law University of Southern California, Gould School of Law This Article posits that we are in a key moment of discursive and ideological transition,…

  • Creating positive out-group attitudes through intergroup couple friendships and implications for compassionate love Journal of Social and Personal Relationships Published online before print: 2014-02-10 DOI: 10.1177/0265407514522369 Keith M. Welker Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan Richard B. Slatcher, Associate Professor of Psychology Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan Lynzey Baker Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan Arthur Aron,…

  • Radical Love: A Transatlantic Dialogue about Race and Mixed Race Asian American Literary Review Volume 4, Issue 2, Pandora’s Box (2013) pages 15-26 Daniel McNeil, Ida B. Wells-Barnett Professor of African and Black Diaspora Studies DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois Leanne Taylor, Assistant Professor of Education Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada Boy meets girl. Boy…

  • Latinos and Whiteness: On Being Sold An Empty White Privilege Knapsack Race-work, Race-love 2014-06-13 Blanca E. Vega (@BlancaVNYC), writer, educator, and race-worker Sophia (@sophiagurule) on May 30th replied to my tweet about White Supremacy and Latinidad: “‪@BlancaVNYC : and yep ‪#nuncamas. this [choosing White on the Census] has haunted/shaped my life, and used against me,…

  • Say Hapa, With Care AAPI Voices: Amplifying the voices of Asian Pacific America. 2014-06-18 Sharon Chang, Guest Columnist What does Hapa mean?  One way to know is to look at the ways in which the word is used. It’s a “Hawaiian word for ‘mixed-race’,” says Hapa Kitchen Supper Club, “coined to refer to people of…

  • Search through own heritage leads evangelist to story about enslaved mixed-race pastor The Advocate Baton Rouge, Louisiana 2014-06-16 Mark H. Hunter, Special to The Advocate If local school district officials knew then what Sammy Tippit knows now, he might not have been allowed to attend Istrouma High School. Tippit, 66, is a world-renowned evangelist who…