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  • “A Universe of Many Worlds”: An Interview with Ruth Ozeki

    “A Universe of Many Worlds”: An Interview with Ruth Ozeki MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Volume 38, Issue 3 (September 2013) pages 160-171 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlt028 Eleanor Ty, Professor of English and Film Studies Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada That’s what it felt like when I was growing up, like I was a…

  • A Blunt Chief Justice Unafraid to Upset Brazil’s Status

    A Blunt Chief Justice Unafraid to Upset Brazil’s Status The New York Times 2013-08-23 Simon Romero, Brazil Bureau Chief BRASÍLIA — Brazil’s highest court has long viewed itself as a bastion of manners and formality. Justices call one another “Your Excellency,” dress in billowing robes and wrap each utterance in grandiloquence, as if little had…

  • What the ‘Mixed Kids Are Always So Beautiful’ Meme Really Means

    What the ‘Mixed Kids Are Always So Beautiful’ Meme Really Means The Huffington Post 2013-08-22 Marcia Dawkins, Clinical Assistant Professor of Communications University of Southern California, Annenberg The New York Times’ Motherlode blog recently posted a thought-provoking article called, “Mixed Kids Are Always So Beautiful.” The author’s experiences as a parent to a racially-ambiguous mixed…

  • Fix the Census’ Archaic Racial Categories

    Fix the Census’ Archaic Racial Categories The New York Times 2013-08-21 Kenneth Prewitt, Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs Columbia University Also former director of the U.S. Census Bureau from 1998 to 2001 and author of What Is Your Race? The Census and Our Flawed Efforts to Classify Americans (Princeton University Press, 2013) Starting in 1790, and…

  • Gwinnett Street Colored Folks Are Talking About the Marriage of the White Man to the Octoroon

    Gwinnett Street Colored Folks Are Talking About the Marriage of the White Man to the Octoroon The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Thursday, 1898-03-31 page 2, column 5 Source: Brooklyn Public Library’s Brooklyn Collection The colored folks in Gwinnett Street are talking to-day of the marriage which took place two weeks ago. Miss Zoe Ball, a vocalist…

  • Albert Murray, author who drew on the free-wheeling spirit of jazz, dies at 97

    Albert Murray, author who drew on the free-wheeling spirit of jazz, dies at 97 The Washington Post 2013-08-19 Adam Bernstein, Reporter Albert Murray, a self-described “riff-style intellectual” whose novels, nonfiction books and essays drew on the free-wheeling spirit of jazz and whose works underscored how black culture and the blues in particular were braided into…

  • Michelle Obama on the Move: What Will She Do Next?

    Michelle Obama on the Move: What Will She Do Next? Parade 2013-08-17 Maggie Murphy, Editor in Chief Lynn Sherr, Contributor America’s most famous mom takes her fight against childhood obesity to the next level, gears up for parenting teenagers, and admits to hitting her stride as first lady. Read the Parade cover story below and…

  • “Faithfully Drawn from Real Life”: Autobiographical Elements in Frank J. Webb’s The Garies and Their Friends

    “Faithfully Drawn from Real Life”: Autobiographical Elements in Frank J. Webb’s The Garies and Their Friends The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography Volume 137, Number 3 (July 2013) pages 261-300 DOI: 10.5215/pennmaghistbio.137.3.0261 Mary Maillard A resurgence of interest in Frank J. Webb’s The Garies and Their Friends—the second novel by an African American and…

  • Scholar Saw a Multicolored American Culture

    Scholar Saw a Multicolored American Culture The New York Times 2013-08-19 Mel Watkins Albert Murray Dies at 97; Fought Black Separatism Albert Murray, an essayist, critic and novelist who influenced the national discussion about race by challenging black separatism, insisting that the black experience was essential to American culture and inextricably tied to it, died…

  • Art at Wing Luke Museum explores mixed-race heritage

    Art at Wing Luke Museum explores mixed-race heritage The Seattle Times 2013-08-19 Robert Ayers, Special to The Seattle Times The thought-provoking “War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian-American Art” exhibition is showing at the Wing Luke in Seattle through Jan. 19, 2014. “War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian-American Art,” currently at the Wing Luke Museum of…