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  • News Release: Lectures in Edenton and Raleigh this weekend

    News Release: Lectures in Edenton and Raleigh this weekend Chowan Discovery Group 2013-05-15 Marvin T. Jones, Executive Director This weekend, the Winton Triangle’s history will be presented at special events in Edenton and Raleigh.  On the morning of Friday, May 17, the town of Edenton is observing its 300th anniversary. Marvin T. Jones, Executive Director of…

  • Mixing Matters: Critical Intersectionalities: An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Symposium on Critical Mixed Race Studies

    Mixing Matters: Critical Intersectionalities: An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Symposium on Critical Mixed Race Studies Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies (CERS) University of Leeds 2013-05-18, 08:45-17:15 BST (Local Time) Key note speakers: Dr. Suki Ali is a Senior Lecturer at the London School of Economics. Her research interests include feminist cultural studies, theories of identity and…

  • Slaves In The Family with Edward Ball

    Slaves In The Family with Edward Ball Research at the National Archives and Beyond BlogTalk Radio Thursday, 2013-05-16, 21:00-22:00 EDT, (Friday, 2013-05-17, 01:00-02:00Z) Bernice Bennett, Host Edward Ball, Lecturer in English Yale University If you knew that you were a descendant of a slave- owner, would you tell anyone? If you had an opportunity to…

  • One Drop of Love: A Daughter’s Search for Her Father’s Racial Approval (at University of California, Santa Barbara)

    One Drop of Love: A Daughter’s Search for Her Father’s Racial Approval (at University of California, Santa Barbara) University of California, Santa Barbara MultiCultural Center Theater [Directions] [Map] University Center, Room 1504 Tuesday, 2013-05-07, 18:00-20:00 PDT (Local Time) Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, Playwright, Producer, Actress, Educator Jillian Pagan, Director Produced by: Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Chay…

  • Affirmative Action in Brazil: Slavery’s Legacy

    Affirmative Action in Brazil: Slavery’s Legacy The Economist Americas View: The Americas 2013-04-26 H.J. São Paulo TO SUM up recent research predicting a mixed-race future for humanity, biologist Stephen Stearns of Yale University turns to an already intermingled nation. In a few centuries, he says, we will all “look like Brazilians”. Brazil shares with the…

  • Race-Crossing

    Race-Crossing Sacramento Daily Union Volume 2, Number 4 (1890-06-08) page 1, column 4 Source: California Digital Newspaper Collection Lima, the capital of Peru, is pronounced to be the headquarters of all the world’s mongreldom. Its population is the product of three centuries of race-crossing, and a scientific investigator finds easily distinguishable among the inhabitants the…

  • Dimensions Variable: Multiracial Identity

    Dimensions Variable: Multiracial Identity RUSH Arts Gallery 526 West 26th St, #311 New York, New York Phone: 212-691-9552 2013-04-04 through 2013-05-10 Opening Reception: Thursday, 2013-04-04, 18:00-20:00 EDT (Local Time) Artist Talk: Saturday, 2013-05-04, 16:00-18:00 EDT (Local Time) Firelei Báez, Yael Ben-Zion, Cecile Chong, Dennis Redmoon Darkeem, Nicky Enright, Lorra Jackson, Sara Jimenez, and Saya Woolfalk…

  • Becoming Mexipino: A Book Event with Rudy Guevarra Jr.

    Becoming Mexipino: A Book Event with Rudy Guevarra Jr. California State University, Fullerton Langsdorf Hall 402 (Map) Thursday, 2013-04-25, 16:00-17:30 PDT (Local Time) Rudy Guevarra, Jr., Assistant Professor, Asian Pacific American Studies, School of Social Transformation, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Arizona State University, Tempe Becoming Mexipino is a social-historical interpretation of two ethnic…

  • SNAPSHOT: “a true story of love interrupted by invasion”

    SNAPSHOT: “a true story of love interrupted by invasion” Greenway Court Theatre 544. N. Fairfax Avenue Los Angeles, California 2013-04-04 through 2013-04-21 Mitzi Sinnott A daughter’s journey through a landscape of years, memories and realities, initiated by her questioning, “what do I know about war?”  The answers are lying in an album of faded photos…

  • Japanese American Student Alliance: Ha-fu: Exploring Half Asian Identity

    Japanese American Student Alliance: Ha-fu: Exploring Half Asian Identity George Washington University Marvin Center, Amphitheater (view map) 800 21st Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20052 2013-04-28, 12:00-16:00 EDT (Local Time) Learn more about GW’s multiracial experience as a student panel discusses their perspectives and shares their stories. The George Washington University Presents: 2013 Asian Pacific Islander…