Category: Articles

  • Multiracial Heritage Week: June 7-14, 2022 United States Census Bureau 2022-06-07 Release Number CB22-SFS.85 From the Congressional Record, 117th Congress, HON. JIM COSTA OF CALIFORNIA, June 7, 2021. HONORING MULTIRACIAL HERITAGE WEEK, “Multiracial Heritage Week is an opportunity to celebrate the contributions and achievements of the multiracial community. Multiracial individuals are not only parts of…

  • The Importance of Being Turbaned The Antioch Review Volume 69, Number 2, Spring 2011 pages 208-221 Paul A. Kramer, Associate Professor of History Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee This narrative piece, selected by The Best American Essays 2012 as a “notable essay,” tells the story of Rev. Jesse Routté, an African American Lutheran minister in New…

  • Kristen Green’s The Devil’s Half Acre recounts the story of a fugitive slave jail, and the enslaved woman, Mary Lumpkin, who came to own it.

  • The optics, while a sign of change, don’t point to any change in the status quo

  • Mixed people do not owe anyone an explanation for their Blackness.

  • “The Vanishing Half” deals with the theme of racial “passing” in the 1950s. Passing is different today, but still presents a choice between safety and authenticity.

  • John Minchillo The Associated Press The number of Americans who identified as more than one race nearly doubled to 13.5 million people between 2010 and 2020, and did double or more in 34 states and the District of Columbia, a Stateline analysis of census figures shows.

  • Though a means of escaping and undermining racial injustice, the practice comes with own set of costs and sacrifices.

  • Blackness in Mestizo America: The Cases of Mexico and Peru Latino(a) Research Review Volume 7, Number 1 (2008) pages 30-58 Tanya Golash-Boza, Professor of Sociology University of California, Merced Christina A. Sue, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Colorado, Boulder In the PBS film series, Black in Latin America, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. takes on…

  • An assistant professor of literary theory and cultural history at Cornell University, Goffe teaches a course called Afro-Asia: Future and Feminisms, which explores African/Asian art and scholarship from Lahore to Chicago, New York City to Hong Kong, and examines it through the lens of race, gender, sexuality, and resistance.