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  • “One-Drop: Fact, Fiction, or Fate?” by Dr. Yaba Blay, April 13th at 7pm in Stirn Auditorium

    “One-Drop: Fact, Fiction, or Fate?” by Dr. Yaba Blay, April 13th at 7pm in Stirn Auditorium Amherst College Stirn Auditorium, Mead Art Museum Amherst, Massachusetts Saturday, 2013-04-13, 19:00 EDT (Local Time) What exactly is Blackness and what does it mean to be Black? Is Blackness a matter of biology or consciousness? Who determines who is…

  • Special Event: An Evening with U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey

    Special Event: An Evening with U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey The Newseum Walter and Leonore Annenberg Theater 555 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20001 Telephone: 888/NEWSEUM (888/639-7386) Tuesday, 2013-04-16, 23:00Z (19:00 EDT Local Time, 16:00 PDT) This event will be streamed live on Newseum.org The 19th U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, Natasha Trethewey will read selections…

  • Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America [Event]

    Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America [Event] Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Langston Hughes Auditorium 515 Malcolm X Boulevard New York, New York 10037-1801 2013-04-06, 17:30-20:30 EDT (Local Time) A book event with theater, film, and community forum presented by afro-latin@ forum, Asian American Writer’s Workshop and the Schomburg…

  • So, What Are You… Anyway?: 2013 Conference on Multiracial Identity

    So, What Are You… Anyway?: 2013 Conference on Multiracial Identity Hosted by the Harvard College Half-Asian People’s Association Harvard University 2013-04-05 through 2013-04-06 The Harvard Half-Asian People’s Association will host its fifth annual conference on mixed-race politics and identity issues, “So…What Are You, Anyway?” (SWAYA) on Friday, April 5, 2013 and Saturday, April 6, 2013…

  • Hapa Japan 2013

    Hapa Japan 2013 Los Angeles, California 2013-04-02 through 2013-04-06 A free Festival Celebrating Mixed-Race and Mixed-Roots Japanese People and Culture! Come join us at Hapa Japan 2013 from April 2-6, 2013 in Los Angeles for a concert featuring emerging hapa artists, a comedy night at East West Players, readings by award-winning authors, a historical exhibit…

  • An Evening with Our New Poet Laureate

    An Evening with Our New Poet Laureate MixedRaceStudies.org 2012-09-16 Steven F. Riley 2012-2013 U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey at Library of Congress (2012-09-13).©2012, Steven F. Riley Natasha Trethewey is preoccupied about race. It is a fruitful preoccupation for which we all should be grateful. [View the inaugural reading transcript here.] Last Thursday, Emory University Professor Trethewey gave…

  • 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…

  • Author/artist Kip Fulbeck on campus April 3

    Author/artist Kip Fulbeck on campus April 3 Skidmore College Saratoga Springs, New York 2013-03-28 “Who Are You?” a presentation on diversity and identity by artist/author/filmmaker Kip Fulbeck, is scheduled at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 3, at Skidmore College. Free and open to the public, the event will be in Gannett Auditorium, Palamountain Hall. A book…

  • Revising Freedom: Law, Literature, & the Racial Imaginary

    Revising Freedom: Law, Literature, & the Racial Imaginary Center for Race & Gender University of California, Berkeley 691 Barrows 2013-03-21, 16:00-17:30 PDT (Local Time) “Blurring the Lines of Race and Freedom: Mulattoes in the Early-Nineteenth-Century United States” A. B. Wilkinson, History This presentation will combine elements from the last two chapters of my current dissertation,…

  • “Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century,” talk by Dorothy Roberts

    “Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century,” talk by Dorothy Roberts University of Michigan Hatcher Library Gallery, Room 100 913 S. University Avenue Ann Arbor, Michigan 2013-04-04, 16:00-17:30 CDT (Local Time) Dorothy E. Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology; Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner…