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  • Mixed-race Brits rising fast as prejudice wanes

    Mixed-race Brits rising fast as prejudice wanes The Sunday Times 2012-12-09 Dipesh Gadher, Deputy News Editor MIXED-RACE Britons, epitomised by Jessica Ennis, the Olympic heptathlon champion, are among the nation’s fastest-growing ethnic-minority groups, according to official figures. New data from the 2011 census to be published on Tuesday is expected to show that at least…

  • Jackie Kay and Sebastian Barry: Identity and struggle

    Jackie Kay and Sebastian Barry: Identity and struggle The Guardian 2011-08-15 Sarah Crown In our inaugural podcast from the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Sebastian Barry and Jackie Kay talk to us about the themes that power their work In our first podcast from the 2011 Edinburgh International Book Festival, we explore questions of identity and…

  • A Hapa Family in Chekhov’s Three Sisters

    A Hapa Family in Chekhov’s Three Sisters Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies Volume 3 (2012), Special Issue: Mixed Heritage Asian American Literature pages 130-146 Elizabeth Liang, Actress, Writer, Producer and co-host of “Hapa Happy Hour” It is an act of courage or foolhardiness to produce theatre in the heart of the film world, depending…

  • Annette John-Hall: CNN series cuts to the core of black identity

    No surprise that “Black in America,” Soledad O’Brien’s documentary series on African American life and culture, was among CNN’s most-watched programs. No other show has offered a deeper look at what it means to be black, in all its complexities.

  • CNN Contributing Producer Probes Lingering Pain of the ‘One Drop’ Rule

    CNN Contributing Producer Probes Lingering Pain of the ‘One Drop’ Rule ColorLines: News for Action 2012-12-07 Akiba Solomon, Columnist, Gender Matters New York, New York Keep the concept of privilege-clinging in the back of your mind as you check out the work and words of Dr. Yaba Blay, the driving force behind “Who Is Black…

  • Soledad O’Brien: Who is black in America? I am

    Soledad O’Brien: Who is black in America? I am Cable News Network (CNN) 2012-12-07 Editor’s Note: In today’s United States, is being black determined by the color of your skin, by your family, by what society says, or something else? Soledad O’Brien reports “Who Is Black in America?” on CNN at 8 p.m. ET/PT this…

  • Whiteness and the city: Australians of Anglo-Indian heritage in suburban Melbourne

    Whiteness and the city: Australians of Anglo-Indian heritage in suburban Melbourne South Asian Diaspora Volume 4, Issue 2, May 2012 pages 123-137 DOI: 10.1080/19438192.2012.675721 Michele Lobo, Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow Arts and Education Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia Leslie Morgan School of Education Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia This paper uses an auto-ethnographic approach to map…

  • Laylah Ali’s show both confounds and mesmerizes

    Laylah Ali’s show both confounds and mesmerizes The Boston Globe 2012-02-19 Sebastian Smee,  Art Critic Laylah Ali is an artist to reckon with. Any opportunity to see her work should not be missed, and for the next two weeks, the Jaffe-Friede Gallery, a small college gallery a short walk from the Hood Museum of Art…

  • Kant’s Race Theory, Forster’s Counter, and the Metaphysics of Color

    Kant’s Race Theory, Forster’s Counter, and the Metaphysics of Color The Eighteenth Century Volume 53, Number 4, Winter 2012 pages 393-412 DOI: 10.1353/ecy.2012.0032 Sally Hatch Gray, Assistant Professor of German Mississippi State University This article argues for an understanding of Kant’s race theory as an integral part of his idea of nature and of humans…

  • The Modern Girl and the Vamp: Hollywood Film in Tanizaki Jun’ichirô’s Early Novels

    The Modern Girl and the Vamp: Hollywood Film in Tanizaki Jun’ichirô’s Early Novels positions: asia critique Volume 20, Number 4 (2012) pages 1067-1093 DOI: 10.1215/10679847-1717672 Deborah Shamoon, Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies National University of Singapore Chijin no ai (Naomi, 1924) and Nikukai (A Lump of Flesh, 1923), by Tanizaki Jun’ichirô, were seminal texts in…