Category: Articles

  • I Just Discovered that I am “Black” The Thom Hartmann Program: “Renaissance Thinking About the Issues of Our Day” 2014-03-04 Thom Hartmann, Host All one has to do is to pay $99, spit something like 10 cubic centimeters of saliva into a test tube, send it to 23andme, and you too, can discover all the…

  • On mixedness and blackness What Nadia Likes 2014-03-14 Nadia Riepenhausen What are you? A question that is fairly straightforward for many, but not so much for me. Before you roll your eyes, expecting to hear another lengthy diatribe about another ‘tragic mullato’ identity crisis, hear me out. A couple of Sundays ago, I found myself…

  • Christine Buckley helped shift cultural axis on child abuse The Irish Times 2014-03-12 Patsy McGarry, Religious Affairs Correspondent From Broadstreet.ie Those who insist that history is about movements not individuals might reflect on the achievements of Christine Buckley. Her story is history as driven by one person. She was an original, a pioneer in exposing…

  • Archibald J. Motley, Jr.’s Paintings: Modern Art Shaped by Precision, Candor, and Soul Hyperallergic: Sensitive to Art & its Discontents 2014-03-09 Edward M. Gómez A week ago, 12 Years A Slave won the Academy Award for Best Picture, the first time in the history of the Oscars that the top prize went to a film…

  • Diversity reaches new levels in Honey Maid ads USA Today 2014-03-10 Bruce Horovitz, Marketing Reporter Honey Maid is the latest brand to launch an ad campaign featuring interracial, gay families.  USA TODAY America’s biggest brands are at an advertising crossroads, and the new diversity that their ads project has suddenly emerged as one of society’s…

  • The Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies inaugural issue is now available Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies Volume 1, Number 1 (2014-01-30) ISSN: 2325-4521 Laura Kina, Associate Professor Art, Media and Design and Director Asian American Studies DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois G. Reginald Daniel, Professor of Sociology University of California at Santa Barbaral Saya…

  • Interview with upcoming CultureFest Performer Laura Kina Multiracial Network Blog 2014-03-07 To start us off, we have an interview from our CultureFest performer Laura Kina! As can also be found on her website (http://www.laurakina.com/) Laura is an artist and scholar who focuses “on the fluidity of cultural difference and the slipperiness of identity”. With subjects…

  • A broad range of terms have been proposed and debated for the ‘mixed race’ population. Dissatisfaction with ‘mixed race’, the term most widely used but contested on the grounds that it references the now discredited concept of ‘race’, has led to the search for an alternative.

  • Concepts, terminology, and classifications for the ‘mixed’ ethnic or racial group Journal of Epidemiolgy and Community Health Volume 64, Issue 6 (2010) Pages 557-560 DOI: 10.1136/jech.2009.088294 Peter J. Aspinall, Reader in Population Health Centre for Health Services Studies University of Kent, United Kingdom Background: The way to categorise people born of inter-ethnic and racial unions…

  • I’ve been thinking a lot lately about whether there is such a thing as ‘mixed privilege’.