Mixed Race Studies

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  • One Drop of Love – a performance by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni at the Brooklyn Historical Society

    One Drop of Love – a performance by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni at the Brooklyn Historical Society Brooklyn Historical Society Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations 2014-06-12, 19:00 EDT (Local Time) Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations and the Brooklyn Historical Society is delighted to host One Drop of Love, a multimedia solo performance by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni that incorporates…

  • The Perceptions of Race That Hinge on Stress

    The Perceptions of Race That Hinge on Stress The Atlantic 2014-06-09 Olga Khazan, Associate Editor A new study found that when resources were scarce, white people had different definitions of “black” and were less generous toward people with darker skin tones than toward people with lighter skin. The Labor Department said on Friday that employers…

  • Economic scarcity alters the perception of race

    Economic scarcity alters the perception of race Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Published online before print on 2014-06-09 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1404448111 Amy R. Krosch New York University David M. Amodio, Associate Professor of Psychology and Neural Science New York University Significance Racial disparities on socioeconomic indices expand dramatically…

  • “When I discovered I was black”, by Bianca Santana

    “When I discovered I was black”, by Bianca Santana Black Women of Brazil 2013-02-22 Originally published on 2010-02-12 by Bianca Santana as “quando me descobri negra” Bianca Santana I have been black for less than a year. Before, I was morena. My color was practically a prank of the sun. I was a morena for…

  • Divided Loyalties

    Divided Loyalties BBC Radio 1Xtra’s Stories BBC 2014-05-04 (Available until 2014-05-09) Duration: 1 hour DJ Semtex, Host DJ Semtex has a black mother and a white father and, as a mixed race kid, had both negative and positive experiences. The latest national census showed that the mixed race population is the fastest growing in Britain,…

  • “You Just Said ‘We’”: The complexity of not being White and not being a person of color.

    “You Just Said ‘We’”: The complexity of not being White and not being a person of color. Nick Franco May 2014 Nick Franco, Coordinator for the Student Affairs/SOLES Collaborative University of San Diego This past Tuesday night, I did a mock presentation of my dissertation proposal for my dissertation seminar course. It went fairly well,…

  • A Verboten Topic: Elliot Rodger, ‘Mixed Race’ Identity, Internalized Racism, and Mental Health

    A Verboten Topic: Elliot Rodger, ‘Mixed Race’ Identity, Internalized Racism, and Mental Health We Are Respectable Negroes: Happy Non-Threatening Coloured Folks, Even the Age of Obama Wednesday, 2014-05-28 Chauncey Devega, Editor and Founder The 24/7 news cycle is not interested in finding the truth about a given matter, and then subsequently offering up useful information…

  • Understanding Hapa Identity: More Research, Not Manifestos

    Understanding Hapa Identity: More Research, Not Manifestos AAPI Voices: Amplifying the voices of Asian Pacific America. 2014-05-29 Danielle Lemi, Guest Columnist and doctoral student University of California, Riverside As more details about the tragic events at UC Santa Barbara come to light, so too have details about Elliot Rodger, particularly with respect to his racial…

  • Future Children

    Future Children Campus MoveFest 2014-05-03 Emily Eaglin—Captain, Director, Writer, Producer, Editor University of Maryland, Baltimore County A comedy/documentary about race relations especially pertaining to racial micro-aggressions of those who are more than one race. Created by Emily Eaglin’s Crew at University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 2014 as part of Campus MovieFest, the world’s largest…

  • Race: More Than Skin Deep

    Multiracial people are the fastest growing demographic in the U.S., but for these Americans, race isn’t a black and white issue. HuffPost Live explores the experience of multiracial Americans and how outward appearance shapes their identities.