Category: Articles

  • “Split At The Root”: The Reformation of The Mulatto Hero/Heroine AmeriQuests (Online) Vanderbilt University Volume 6, Number 1 2008-11-18 Tia L. Gafford, Assistant Professor of English and Africana Studies Mercer University Frances E. W. Harper’s Iola Leroy offers a valuable insight on the development of a holistic and natural model for patriarchy in the 19th…

  • Double Take: The Art of Amalgam and stereo*type* The Incluseum: Museums and Social Inclusion 2014-04-23 Aletheia Wittman, co-founder In this post The Incluseum highlights the new work of some of Seattle’s industrious artist… Two recent exhibits have disrupted the reliability of the first impression.  The artwork prompts a second, longer, deeper look. Right now at…

  • Stunning Self-Portraits Make You Think Twice About Interracial Identity In South America The Huffington Post 2014-04-25 Katherine Brooks, Arts & Culture Editor Brazilian artist Adriana Varejão has been exploring themes of interracial identity through an unlikely medium—self-portraits. To confront and challenge concepts like colonialism and miscegenation in her home country, she turns her own visage…

  • Communication Accommodation Strategies in Malaysian Multiracial Family Interactions Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences Volume 118 (2014-03-19) pages 259–264 DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.02.035 International Conference on Knowledge-Innovation-Excellence: Synergy in Language Research and Practice (2013) Organized by School of Language Studies and Linguistics, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (National University of Malaysia) Mahanita Mahadhir…

  • What Does the Education Dept. Know About Race? The Chronicle of Higher Education 2014-04-28 Johnah Newman, Database Reporter Our post last week on minority enrollment and diversity at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor sparked a lively debate in the comments section about demographic data and diversity. “I must admit that I am scratching…

  • For dark-skinned Mexicans, taint of discrimination lingers McClatchy DC: Watching Washington and the World 2013-08-22 Tim Johnson, McClatchy Foreign Staff MEXICO CITY — Flip through the print publications exalting the activities of Mexico’s high society and there’s one thing you rarely find: dark-skinned people. No matter that nearly two-thirds of Mexicans consider themselves moreno, the…

  • Is Race/Ethnicity Related to Presence or Severity of Pain in Colorectal and Lung Cancer? Journal of Pain and Symptom Management Published online: 2014-04-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2014.02.005 Kathryn A. Martinez, PhD, MPH, Postdoctoral Fellow CanSORT (Cancer Surveillance & Outcomes Research Team) Ann Arbor VA Health Services Research & Development Center, University of Michgan, Ann Arbor Claire F.…

  • Opinion: Supreme Court ruling upholds America’s mixed view Cable News Network (CNN) 2014-04-24 Martha S. Jones, Arthur F Thurnau Professor, Associate Professor of History and Afroamerican and African Studies University of Michigan (CNN) — I didn’t expect to find the specter of the mixed-race person making an appearance in Tuesday’s Supreme Court decision that upheld…

  • General Mills CEO: Doubling down on mixed-race commercial was ‘right thing’ to do Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal 2014-04-22 Nick Halter, Staff Reporter General Mills Inc. CEO Ken Powell told a crowd of minority business owners Tuesday that his company didn’t give into racist hate mail when it doubled down on a Cheerios commercial that featured…

  • Chinese Cubans: A transnational history by Kathleen Lopez (review) [Roopnarine] Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History Volume 15, Number 1, Spring 2014 DOI: 10.1353/cch.2014.0018 Lomarsh Roopnarine, Associate Professor of Latin American and Caribbean History Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi López, Kathleen, Chinese Cubans: A Transnational History (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013) Without…