Mixed Race Studies

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  • Obama Tapped His Inner Krazy Kat When He Taught Us to Embrace Mutts

    Obama Tapped His Inner Krazy Kat When He Taught Us to Embrace Mutts The Daily Beast 2017-01-18 Michael Tisserand Michael Tisserand is the author of Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White. A self-described ‘mutt,’ Obama encouraged us to think about race in ways that erased the color line. But George Herriman, another…

  • ‘Our children can become president, too’: Obama’s presidency was a dream realized

    ‘Our children can become president, too’: Obama’s presidency was a dream realized The Grio 2017-01-19 Kevin Cokley, Professor of Educational Psychology; Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies University of Texas, Austin Large crowds watch the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States on a large screen in the neighborhood of…

  • Will Racism End When Old Bigots Die?

    Will Racism End When Old Bigots Die? Code Switch: Race And Identity, Remixed National Public Radio 2017-01-14 Leah Donnella Shelly Fields is a 46-year-old white woman living in Richton Park, a racially diverse Chicago suburb. She says she’s raised her four daughters, who are biracial, to see people of all races as equal, just as…

  • Afro-Palestinians’ forge a unique identity in Israel

    Afro-Palestinians’ forge a unique identity in Israel The Associated Press 2017-01-12 Isma’il Kushkush In this Dec. 31, 2016 photo, Arab families of African descent attend a wedding in the West Bank city of Ramallah. In the shadow of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City lies the “African Quarter” — home to a little-known community…

  • An Artist Reinvents Herself to Mine the Fictions of America

    An Artist Reinvents Herself to Mine the Fictions of America Hyperallergic 2017-01-09 Alicia Eler Genevieve Gaignard makes the personal political while also creating new American mythologies. LOS ANGELES — In the lead-up to a Trump presidency, the worst possible outcome for an America that has come so far in the past 100 years in terms…

  • Mixing It Up: Students, professors reflect on the definition of mixed race in modern society

    Mixing It Up: Students, professors reflect on the definition of mixed race in modern society HiLite: Your Source For CHS News Carmel High School, Carmel, Indiana 2016-12-12 Allison Li, Calendar/Beats Editor, Feature Reporter Junior Kiki Koniaris is Korean, Pennsylvanian Dutch and Grecian. Despite being of mixed race, Koniaris said she believes race should not define…

  • “IT’S LIKE WE HAVE AN ‘IN’ ALREADY”: The Racial Capital of Black/White Biracial Americans

    “IT’S LIKE WE HAVE AN ‘IN’ ALREADY”: The Racial Capital of Black/White Biracial Americans Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race Published online: 2016-12-19 DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X16000357 Chandra D. L. Waring, Assistant Professor Department of Sociology, Criminology and Anthropology University of Wisconsin, Whitewater The increasing bi/multiracial1 community in the United States has generated much literature about…

  • Mixed in the Six pop-up events created to support multiracial Torontonians

    Mixed in the Six pop-up events created to support multiracial Torontonians The Toronto Star 2017-01-03 Erin Kobayashi Mixed in the Six, is a pop-up event aimed at building a community for multi-racial Torontonians. (Cole Burtan/Toronto Star) An event for the off-spring of mixed-race families hits a chord as the difficult to ‘identify’ find their people.…

  • Leona Amosah, the Founder of SWIRL, Talks Diversity and Identity

    Leona Amosah, the Founder of SWIRL, Talks Diversity and Identity Study Breaks 2016-12-28 Molly Flynn University of North Carolina, Charlotte Celebrating Students with Interracial Legacies (SWIRL) Amosah, a high-achieving senior at UNC Chapel Hill, created the organization to provide a community for students with multiracial and mixed-race identities. While many college students occupy their time…

  • Children’s and Adults’ Predictions of Black, White, and Multiracial Friendship Patterns

    Children’s and Adults’ Predictions of Black, White, and Multiracial Friendship Patterns Journal of Cognition and Development Published online: 2016-11-22 20 pages DOI: 10.1080/15248372.2016.1262374 Steven O. Roberts, Ph.D. Candidate Department of Psychology University of Michigan Amber D. Williams, National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow University of Texas, Austin Susan A. Gelman, Heinz Werner Distinguished University Professor of…