Mixed Race Studies

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  • A Mixed Bag: Examining the College Experience of Multi-Racial Students

    A Mixed Bag: Examining the College Experience of Multi-Racial Students INSIGHT Into Diversity April/May 2012 (2012-03-29) Andrea Williams, Contributing Writer To most American youth, college is the requisite rite of passage into adulthood, an experience marked as much by self-exploration and discovery as biology lectures and late night cram sessions.   From managing the excitement…

  • Can Drake Save the Bar Mitzvah?

    Can Drake Save the Bar Mitzvah? The Jewish Week Blog: Well Versed 2012-04-12 Eric Herschthal When Drake’s new video, “HYFR,” dropped [was released] over the weekend—in which the Jewish, biracial hip-hop superstar raps at a bar mitzvah—I was thrilled. Initially. For years, pop culture references to the Jewish rite of passage have been stuck in…

  • Rutgers Student, a German ‘Brown Baby,’ Helps Others Search for their Identities and Creates Community

    Rutgers Student, a German ‘Brown Baby,’ Helps Others Search for their Identities and Creates Community Focus: News for and about Rutgers faculty, students, and staff Rutgers University 2012-05-01 Carrie Stetler She grew up in Willingboro, New Jersey, as Wanda Lynn Haymon, the only child of an African-American mother and father who made her feel special…

  • The Body Beautiful: A film by Ngozi Onwurah

    The Body Beautiful: A film by Ngozi Onwurah Women Make Movies England, 1991 23 minutes Color, VHS/16mm/DVD Order No. W99229 Melbourne Film Festival, Best Documentary This bold, stunning exploration of a white mother who undergoes a radical mastectomy and her Black daughter who embarks on a modeling career reveals the profound effects of body image…

  • The Elusive Variability of Race

    The question of race is, at its core, a questioning of humanity itself.  In various eras and locales, race has been marked by color of skin, texture of hair, dress, musical prowess, digital dexterity, rote memorization, mien, mannerisms, disease, athletic ability, capacity to write poetry, sense of rhythm, sobriety, childlike cheerfulness, animal anger, language, continent…

  • Mama’s Baby, Papa’s, Too

    …We’ve been here before, and that is the disappointment. Reminded in the course of Saulny’s treatment that terms like “mulatto,” “once tinged with shame…is enjoying a comeback in some young circles” (1), one wonders what all the brouhaha about “post-racial” identity actually means, unless the new racialist reflexes are intended to be taken as parodic…

  • “You’re Irish?” Celebrating Hidden Identities

    “You’re Irish?” Celebrating Hidden Identities Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu 2012-03-31 Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu Stanford University “You’re Irish?” I introduced myself to the Irishman by my father’s family name Murphy and watched as he stared at me in seeming disbelief and confusion before uttering, “Well, it’s a good name anyway.” I recalled this incident recently as I celebrated St.…

  • Challenging Multiracial Identity

    What is multiracialism—and what are the theoretical consequences and practical costs of asserting a multiracial identity? Arguing that the multiracial movement bolsters, rather than subverts, traditional categories of race, Rainier Spencer critically assesses current scholarship in support of multiracial identity.

  • S’porean identity must include mixed-race kids

    S’porean identity must include mixed-race kids The Straits Times Singapore Forum Letters 2013-03-16 Peter Wadeley MRS MARIETTA Koh Ai-meng (“Citizens have every right to expect privileges”; last Saturday) claims that rising consciousness of what it means to be Singaporean should not be decried as chauvinistic or jingoistic. Last year, former president S R Nathan said…

  • One Drop of Love: A Multimedia Solo Performance on Racial Identity by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni at University of Maryland

    One Drop of Love: A Multimedia Solo Performance on Racial Identity by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni at University of Maryland University of Maryland, College Park The Stamp (Adele H. Stamp Student Union) [Directions] Atrium Room Friday, 2013-03-29, 17:00-19:30 EDT (Local Time) Sponsored by the Multiracial Biracial Student Association (MBSA), Office of Multicultural Involvement and Community Advocacy…