Category: Live Events

  • Local Author Dmae Roberts Another Read Through 3932 N Mississippi Avenue Portland, Oregon 97227 2016-09-01, 19:00-20:00 PDT (Local Time) Dmae Roberts will read from her book and give a preview of a larger conversation that will be coming soon with the Oregon Humanities Conversation Project. The Letting Go Trilogies: Stories of a Mixed-Race Family traces four decades…

  • FACING FORWARD: A Panel Discussion on Mixed-Race/Ethnic Japanese Americans and Community Japanese American Service Committee of Chicago 4427 N. Clark Street Chicago, Illinois 60640 2016-07-19, 18:30-20:00 CDT (Local Time) The Japanese American Service Committee Legacy Center Presents A “Memories of Now” Seminar Series Presentation Co-sponsored by the Chicago Japanese American Historical Society (CJAHS) and the…

  • How To Talk To Your Kids About Race Roundhouse Radio, 98.3 FM Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Thursday, 2016-07-14, 17:00-18:00Z (10:00-11:00 PDT) Live Call-in: How to talk to your kids about race With author and educator Sharon Chang, author of “Raising Mixed Race” and host Minelle Mahtani It’s been a tough news week. The media has…

  • Inclusion Policies and the Future of Racial Relations in Brazil The Futures We Want: Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World 3rd ISA Forum of Sociology 2016-07-10 through 2016-07-14 Vienna, Austria Tuesday, 2016-07-12, 09:30 CEST (Local Time) Room: Hörsaal 34 Oral Presentation Valter Silvério, Associate Professor of Sociology Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos,…

  • Multiracial People and the Socialization of Their Children in Britain The Futures We Want: Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World 3rd ISA Forum of Sociology 2016-07-10 through 2016-07-14 Vienna, Austria Tuesday, 2016-07-12, 14:15 CEST (Local Time) Room: Hörsaal 31 Oral Presentation Miri Song, Professor of Sociology University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, United…

  • One Drop of Love preceded by I’ve Just had a Dream The 18th Annual Roxbury International Film Festival Museum of Fine Arts Boston Barbara and Theodore Alfond Auditorium (Auditorium G36) Avenue of the Arts 465 Huntington Avenue Boston, Massachusetts 02115 2016-06-30, 20:00-21:35 EDT (Local Time) Film still from One Drop of Love I’ve Just had…

  • Book Launch: A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life by Allyson Hobbs The Powerhouse Arena 37 Main Street Brooklyn, New York 11201 Telephone: 718.666.3049 Wednesday 2016-06-15, 19:00-21:00 EDT (Local Time) Focusing on individuals and their experiences, Allyson Hobbs examines how racial passing became both a strategy for survival and an avenue…

  • Karin Tanabe: THE GILDED YEARS Busboys and Poets Langston Room 2021 14th Street, NW (14 & V Street, NW) Washington, D.C. 20009 Tuesday, 2016-06-14, 18:30-20:30 EDT (Local Time) Politics & Prose at Busboys and Poets 14th & V welcomes Karin Tanabe to present the new book “The Gilded Years.” A Politico journalist turned novelist, Tanabe…

  • Book reading with SHARON H. CHANG: Raising Mixed Race Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience 719 South King Street Seattle, Washington 98104 Thursday, 2016-06-02, 18:00-20:00 PDT (Local Time) Sharon H. Chang has worked with young children and families for over a decade. She is a scholar and activist who focuses on racism,…

  • A Culture of Identity Choice: Assertions of Mixed Race, Transgender, and Other Identities and the Implications for Politics Stanford University Black Community Services Center The Brandon Room Wednesday, 2016-05-18, 12:00 PDT (Local Time) Natalie Masuoka, Associate Professor of Political Science Tufts University While Americans have always connected with different social identities, today we find the…