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  • New York’s Mixed-Race Riot

    New York’s Mixed-Race Riot The New York Times 2013-07-15 Lisa Orr, Professor of English Utica College, Utica, New York When draft rioters set fire to the Colored Orphan Asylum in New York on the night of July 13, 1863, one man in the crowd called out, “If there is a man among you with a…

  • ‘Why I Don’t Want to Talk About Race’

    ‘Why I Don’t Want to Talk About Race’ The Good Men Project 2011-01-08 Steve Locke, Associate Professor of Art Education Massachusetts College of Art and Design Tom Matlack asked his friend Steve Locke to write for us about race. He declined. Here’s why. Dear Tom, Thanks so much for asking me to contribute something to…

  • In Florida, a Death Foretold

    In Florida, a Death Foretold The New York Times 2012-03-31 Isabel Wilkerson In the mid-1930s, a Yale anthropologist ventured to an unnamed town in the South to explore the feudal divisions of what we commonly call race but what he preferred to describe with the more layered language of caste. When he arrived — white,…

  • The first black president has made it harder to talk about race in America

    The first black president has made it harder to talk about race in America The Washington Post 2012-03-23 Reniqua Allen, Freelance Journalist and Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow New America Foundation A few weeks ago, I was standing outside a posh bar on the Lower East Side of Manhattan with my friends of almost two decades.…

  • He Checked That Box, But How Black is Obama?

    He Checked That Box, But How Black is Obama? Politic365: From Your Point of View 2013-07-12 William Reed, Head The Business Exchange Network “If you had a choice of color, which one would you choose, my brother?” – Curtis Mayfield, 1969 In the official U.S. 2010 head count, President Barack Obama provided one answer to…

  • Racism, White Supremacy and Biracial/Multiraciality (2011)

    From my September 2011 talk at Spalding University in Louisville, KY. In this snippet, I respond to a question about how we should understand or think about biracial and multiracial folks’ experiences in a system of racism/white supremacy.

  • Trayvon Martin, my son, and the Black Male Code

    Trayvon Martin, my son, and the Black Male Code The Associated Press 2012-03-24 Jesse Washington, National Writer/Race and Ethnicity PHILADELPHIA (AP) — I thought my son would be much older before I had to tell him about the Black Male Code. He’s only 12, still sleeping with stuffed animals, still afraid of the dark. But…

  • An African American’s Perspective on the Korean Wave

    An African American’s Perspective on the Korean Wave The Chosunilbo Seoul, Korea 2013-07-09 Emanuel Pastreich, Associate Professor Humanitas College, Kyunghee University I received an unexpected email in February 2013, from a young woman who was studying public health at Harvard University. Mariesa Lee Ricks explained that her mother was Korean and that she had a…

  • A Postracial Society or A Diversity Paradox? Race, Immigration, and Multiraciality in the Twenty-First Century

    A Postracial Society or A Diversity Paradox? Race, Immigration, and Multiraciality in the Twenty-First Century Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race Volume 9, Issue 2, Fall 2012 pages 419-437 DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X12000161 Jennifer Lee, Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Frank D. Bean, Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine At the…

  • Q&A with artist and author Laura Kina

    Q&A with artist and author Laura Kina Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb 2013-07-11 Deborah Kalb Laura Kina, the Vincent de Paul associate professor of Art, Media, and Design at DePaul University, is the co-editor of the new book War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art and the co-curator of an accompanying art exhibit. She…