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  • Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference 2012 and Mixed Roots Midwest 2012-11-13 Camilla Fojas, (CMRS 2012 organizer) Associate Professor and Chair Latin American and Latino Studies DePaul University Laura Kina, (Mixed Roots Midwest 2012 co-organizer) Associate Professor Art, Media and Design and Director Asian American Studies DePaul University Photo of Mixed Roots Midwest: Filmmakers Panel by…

  • Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference 2012 Recap 2012-11-13 Camilla Fojas, (CMRS 2012 organizer) Associate Professor and Chair Latin American and Latino Studies DePaul University Laura Kina, (Mixed Roots Midwest 2012 co-organizer) Associate Professor Art, Media and Design and Director Asian American Studies DePaul University Despite being sandwiched between Halloween, Superstorm Sandy, and the presidential elections,…

  • 10 Things I learned at CMRS Honeysmoke 2012-11-12 Monique Fields When it comes to conferences, sometimes you want to split yourself into four beings and attend every talk, roundtable, and workshop. It can’t be done. The best you can do is attend the workshops that interest you and hope for the best. I got all…

  • MSU scholar says medical recommendations should go beyond race Michigan State University News 2012-10-23 Andy McGlashen, Media Communications Sean Valles, assistant professor in Lyman Briggs College and the Department of Philosophy, says race-based medical advice is often misleading and harmful. Photo by G.L. Kohuth. EAST LANSING, Mich. — Medical organizations that make race-based recommendations are…

  • A Milestone Election Weekend Reader Hannah Arendt Center Bard College 2012-11-09 Roger Berkowitz, Associate Professor of Political Studies, Human Rights, and Philosophy; Academic Director, Hannah Arendt Center Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York The re-election of Barack Obama is a milestone. Barack Obama will always be remembered as the first black President of the United States.…

  • From Kongo to Othello to Tango to Museum Shows ARTnews 2012-10-25 Robin Cembalest Jacopo da Pontormo (Jacopo Carucci), Portrait of Maria Salviati de’ Medici and Giulia de’ Medici, ca. 1539, oil on panel. THE WALTERS ART MUSEUM, BALTIMORE, ACQUIRED BY HENRY WALTERS WITH THE MASSARENTI COLLECTION, 1902 (37.596). Artists and scholars are taking increasingly nuanced…

  • Other Tongues: Mixed-Race Women Speak Out (review) [McKibbin] University of Toronto Quarterly Volume 81, Number 3, Summer 2012 pages 704-705 DOI: 10.1353/utq.2012.0140 Molly Littlewood McKibbin Other Tongues: Mixed Race Women Speak Out by Adebe De Rango-Adem and Andrea Thompson, eds.(Inanna Publications, 2010) DeRango-Adem and Thompson’s new collection of the artistic, autobiographical, and scholarly work of…

  • Colonial Proximities: Crossracial Encounters and Juridical Truths in British Columbia, 1871–1921 (review) [Allan Cho] University of Toronto Quarterly Volume 81, Number 3, Summer 2012 pages 690-691 DOI: 10.1353/utq.2012.0090 Allan Cho, Program Services Librarian University of British Columbia As part of a new collective at the University of British Columbia re-envisaging the landscape and boundaries of…

  • Should people’s ethnicity matter in their medical treatment? OnCentral Southern California Public Radio 2012-10-24 José Martinez Chances are, medical research has found that your ethnicity makes you more likely to have certain conditions or diseases. For Latinos, it’s diabetes. For black folks, it’s high blood pressure. For white people, it’s cystic fibrosis. For Asian women,…

  • Parallels to country’s racist past haunt age of Obama Cable News Network In America: You define America. What defines you? 2012-11-01 John Blake, CNN This is the second in an occasional series on issues of race, identity and politics ahead of Election Day, including a look at the optics of politics, a white Southern Democrat…