Mixed Race Studies

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  • Black, Red and Proud: An Interview with Radmilla Cody

    Black, Red and Proud: An Interview with Radmilla Cody The Root 2011-02-22 Cynthia Gordy Radmilla Cody’s crowning as Miss Navajo Nation in 1997 triggered an outcry and a conversation about what it means to be Native American. Now she’s featured in a museum exhibit showing the rarely told history of African-Native Americans. In a 1920…

  • Red/Black: Related Through History

    Red/Black: Related Through History Eitejorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art White River State Park 500 West Washington Street Indianapolis, Indiana 2011-02-12 through 2011-08-07 Explore the interwoven histories of African Americans and Native Americans with Red/Black: Related Through History. This groundbreaking exhibition is the result of a partnership between the Eiteljorg Museum and the…

  • Multiracial: Border Crosser: Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu navigates nations, cultures and academia

    Multiracial: Border Crosser: Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu navigates nations, cultures and academia Nichi Bei: A mixed plate of Japanses American News & Culture 2010-05-20 Akemi Johnson Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu is looking again toward Japan. A psychotherapist, writer and academic, Murphy-Shigematsu has lived in Palo Alto, Calif. the past eight years, teaching at Stanford University and running an independent…

  • More students identifying as multiracial

    More students identifying as multiracial Collegiate Times Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) 2011-02-17 Sarah Watson, News Reporter More students pursuing a secondary education identify themselves as multiracial or multiethnic. Students across the nation and in the Virginia Tech community are checking the box “two or more races” when filling out college applications.…

  • Between Black and Brown: Blaxican (Black-Mexican) Multiracial Identity in California

    This article explores the racial/ethnic identities of multiracial Black-Mexicans or “Blaxicans.” In-depth interviews with 12 Blaxican individuals in California reveal how they negotiate distinct cultural systems to accomplish multiracial identities. I argue that choosing, accomplishing, and asserting a Blaxican identity challenges the dominant monoracial discourse in the United States,in particular among African American and Chicana/o…

  • Blurring the color line: the new America

    Blurring the color line: the new America The Tufts Daily Medford, Massachusetts 2011-02-22 Sylvia Avila Students identify as multiracial more than ever before Once considered a black and white issue, racial identity is hazier than ever. According to findings released in June 2010 by the Pew Research Center, the current generation of American college students…

  • Containing Multitudes

    Containing Multitudes Mixed Dreams: towards a radical multiracial/ethnic movement 2011-02-21 Nicole Asong Nfonoyim “Communities had to be created, fought for, tended like gardens. They expanded or contracted with the dreams of men– and in the civil rights movement those dreams had seemed large. In the sit-ins, the marches, the jailhouse songs, I saw the African-American…

  • Columns: Racial lines no longer just black and white

    Columns: Racial lines no longer just black and white The Minnesota Daily University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul 2011-02-21 Lolla Mohammed Nur Clear-cut racial categories restrict how multiracial Americans identify themselves. Based on her appearance, you wouldn’t easily be able to guess University of Minnesota sophomore Mary Taylor‘s racial or ethnic heritage. But if you ask…

  • The President, the Census and the Multiracial “Community”

    The President, the Census and the Multiracial “Community” Open Salon 2011-02-20 Ulli K. Ryder, Ph.D. What is the connection between Obama, the 2010 U.S. Census and multiracials?  Not as much as some may think. While it is tempting to look to Obama as a mixed race icon and to see the Census as publicly acknowledging…

  • The Advantage Of Dual-Identities (A Case Study of Nabokov)

    The Advantage Of Dual-Identities (A Case Study of Nabokov) Wired Magazine 2011-01-31 Jonah Lehrer, Contributing Editor Vladimir Nabokov was a lepidopterist. No, really. While Proust wasn’t actually a neuroscientist—just an extremely intuitive novelist—Nabokov spent six years as a research fellow at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, obsessing over the details of the Polyommatus blues.…