Category: Identity Development/Psychology

  • Under the skin Havard University Gazette 2012-10-12 Aaron Lester, Harvard Correspondent Deep experience informs panelists’ views on mixed-race life in U.S. When Carmen Fields’ future husband asked her to meet his mother, Fields refused. “No way. I didn’t want to be the reason she opened up the front door and dropped the Easter ham,” she…

  • ITYC Audio Journal #2: What Are You?-Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations Is That Your Child? Thought in Full Color 2012-10-07 Michelle McCrary, Host Last Thursday, I attended an event at the Brooklyn Historical Society for their “Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations” series called What Are You? The panel tackled the this perpetual question often aimed at people…

  • Britain’s first black community in Elizabethan London BBC News Magazine 2012-07-19 Michael Wood The black trumpeter John Blanke played regularly at the courts of Henry VII and Henry VIII The reign of Elizabeth I saw the beginning of Britain’s first black community. It’s a fascinating story for modern Britons, writes historian Michael Wood. Walk out…

  • A diverged family converges at Harvard Law Havard Law School News 2012-10-10 Audrey Kunycky A chance encounter, a discovery of kin on opposite sides of the world It wasn’t inevitable that Harvard Law School graduate students Erum Khalid Sattar and Rebecca Zaman would meet so soon, or even at all. Sattar has been at the…

  • The Elizabeth Warren Situation Is More Complicated Than Many Think Indian Country Today Media Network 2012-10-10 Laura Waterman Wittstock Seneca Nation A ton of ink has been spilled on the subject of the Elizabeth Warren run for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts. Most of the writing on the Indian side of opinion is whether or…

  • Local Filmmaker to Give Voice to Biracial Issues News Release Nashville, Tennessee 2012-10-10 Jefferey Martin 615-918-8688 James Southard, Director/Producer Native Nashville, [Tennessee]  filmmaker, James Southard aims to tackle the subject of what it means to be biracial in his forth-coming documentary, “Half-Caste.” The documentary comes from a mixture of personal experience with being biracial, a…

  • The Métis Métis National Council Ottowa, Ontario, Canada 2011 Prior to Canada’s crystallization as a nation in west central North America, the Métis people emerged out of the relations of Indian women and European men. While the initial offspring of these Indian and European unions were individuals who possessed mixed ancestry, the gradual establishment of…

  • Anomaly – Film Screening and Performance Bentley University Wilder Pavilion – Adamian Academic Center Waltham, Massachusetts Wednesday, 2012-10-24, 18:30 EDT (Local Time) Jessica Chen Drammeh, Director/Producer Sharon Smith, Co-Producer Anomaly is an award-winning documentary that provides a thought-provoking look at multiracial identity by combining personal narratives with the larger drama of mixed race in American…

  • 2nd Annual: What Are You? Brooklyn Historical Society Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations 2012-10-04, 19:00 EDT (Local Time) Let’s talk about race and ethnicity, and where we’re from (or where we’re from from); how we express our own multicultural identities, and how others perceive us. Panelists will start the conversation and we hope you’ll join in.…

  • Cedric Dover Wasafiri Volume 27, Issue 2 (2012) pages 56-57 DOI: 10.1080/02690055.2012.662322 Cedric Dover was born in Calcutta in 1904. Dover’s mixed ancestry (English father, Indian mother) and his studies in zoology led to a strong interest in ethnic minorities and their marginalisation. After his studies, he joined the Zoological Survey of India as a…