Mixed Race Studies

Beyond the Rainbow: Mixed Race and Mixed Culture in the 21st Century Work Place

Society for Intercultural Education Training and Research
2010 Conference: Living and Working in a Intercultural World
2010-04-14 through 2010-04-17
Spokane, Washington
Session Date: 2010-04-15

Harriet Cannon, M.C.

Rhoda Berlin, MS

Today on the street, at schools and in the workplace, we can no longer be sure of a person’s ethnicity by their surname or appearance. Walk the streets of any larger city, most university campuses, and the majority of businesses in the United States and if you are looking for it, you will be amazed at the number of mixed race people under the age of 40. This quiet revolution is rapidly changing the face of the US, Canada, Europe, and has a presence in Asia.

The goal of this workshop is to discuss how multicultural and mixed race population growth is pushing the boundaries of our thinking about diversity and cross cultural training. We will discuss appearance and identity and address the breadth and depth of mixed race experience. We will share our research on mixed race adult identity. We will describe strengths and challenges educators and trainers increasingly encounter with this mushrooming diverse mixed race population at university and in the workplace. There will be group participation on brainstorming creative changes in delivery of diversity/intercultural training in the 21st century.

View the session handout (a few reading resources on biracial and multiethnic identity)  here.

Half-Yella: Mixed Race Asian American Art [Lecture]

Oberlin College
King 106
2010-04-29, 16:30 to 17:30 EDT (Local Time)

Laura Kina, Professor of Art
DePaul University

Laura Kina is an artist, independent curator, and scholar whose research focuses on Asian American art and critical mixed race studies. She is an Associate Professor of Art, Media and Design, Vincent de Paul Professor, and Director of Asian American Studies at DePaul University. She is a 2009-2010 DePaul University Humanities Fellow. She earned her MFA from the school of the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she studied under noted painters Kerry James Marshall and Phyllis Bramson, and she earned her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Born in Riverside, California and raised in Poulsbo, WA, the artist currently lives and works in Chicago, IL. Her work has shown internationally is represented in Miami, Florida by Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts. Her work is currently on display in a solo exhibition “Laura Kina: A Many-Splendored Thing” at the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago, IL as well as in group shows at the DePaul Art Museum in Chicago and the Korean Cultural Center in Los Angeles.

Laura Kina’s work focuses on the fluidity of cultural difference and the slipperiness of identity. Asian American history and mixed race representations are subjects that run through her work. She draws inspiration from popular culture, history, textile design, as well as historic and personal photographs. Critic Murtaza Vali has described her art as “a genre of Pop art with a distinctly postcolonial edge.”

This event is sponsored by Asian American Alliance as a part of Oberlin College’s Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month 2010.

Biracial Children Learn To Self-Identify

Tell Me More
National Public Radio
2010-04-20

Michel Martin, Host

Interview with:

Kip Fulbeck, Professor of Performative Studies, Video
University of California, Santa Barbara
Author of: Mixed: Portraits of Multiracial Kids

Peggy Orenstein
Author of: Waiting for Daisy: A Tale of Two Continents, Three Religions, Five Fertility Doctors, An Oscar, An Atomic Bomb, A Romantic Night, and One Woman’s Quest to Become a Mother

Heidi W. Durrow
Author of: The Girl Who Fell from the Sky
Co-Host of: Mixed Chicks Chat

An installment of Tell Me More‘s weekly parenting segment focuses on the new book Mixed. It’s a collection of photographs of multiracial children that includes stories celebrating their heritage. Host Michel Martin is joined by the book’s author, Kip Fulbeck, as well as authors Peggy Orenstein and Heidi Durrow, who discuss their own experiences living in multiracial families.

Read the transcript of the interview here.  Listen to the interview here.

Note by Steven F. Riley: The term “Hapa” is incorrectly spelled as “Hoppa” in the transcript.

Anomaly: A documentary fim about multiracial identity

Langston Hughes African American Film Festival
Sunday, 2010-04-18 13:30 PDT (Local Time)
Central Cinema, 1411 21st Avenue (at Union), Seattle, WA 98122
(206) 686-6684

Jessica Chen Drammeh, Director/Producer

Sharon Smith, Co-Producer

Anomaly is a groundbreaking documentary film that takes an insider’s look at the experiences of multiracial Americans. Through personal narratives, Anomaly stimulates viewers to think about identity, family and community in a changing world.

The film features interviews and performances by:

• Gabriella Callender of Mahina Movement
• Michelle Myers of Yellow Rage
• Pete Shungu
• Thaddeus Rutkowski

The film also includes interviews with community expert Eric Hamako, Jen Chau of Swirl, Inc., Michele Elam (professor at Stanford University), Ann Morning (professor at New York University), and Jennifer Chan (professor at San Francisco State University).

For more information, click here.

Mixed Chicks Chat Interview with Steve Riley, Creator of Mixed Race Studies

Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed. Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox and Heidi W. Durrow
Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks)
Episode: #147 – Steven F. Riley
When: Wednesday, 2010-04-07 21:00Z (17:00 EDT, 14:00 PDT)

Steven F. Riley

Mike Peden (aka The Sports Brain, or ‘TSB’) is a journalist whose film “What Are You? A Dialogue on Mixed Race” screened at the 2nd Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival. He will be interviewing Steven F. Riley (aka SilverSpringSteve) whose blog www.MixedRaceStudies.org has over 1,000 posts on the study of multiracialism.

Listen to the episode here or download it to your computer here.

Who Counts & Who’s Counting? 38th Annual Conference National Association for Ethnic Studies Conference

National Association for Ethnic Studies, Inc.
2010-04-08 through 2010-04-10
L’Enfant Plaza Hotel
Washington, D.C.

Dr. Larry Shinagawa, NAES 2010 Conference Chair

Our theme of “Who Counts and Who’s Counting” signals the importance of Washington, D.C. as a physical, cultural, and social nexus for policy decisions that will shape the 21st Century. With the 2010 Census signaling the dramatic changes that are affecting all ethnic and racial communities in the United States, who is doing the counting and how we construct the discourse and policies of who counts will be central to the future of all residents of the United States and will shape global relations around the world. We hope you will participate in this important dialogue; welcome to NAES 2010 in Washington, D.C.!

A paritial tenative program is below (All times are local EDT):

Session II – Thursday 10:30 – 10:45
Whiteness studies
Heidi Cooper, Emily Drew, Zaid Mahir

Racial classifications and stereotypes
Jamelia Bastien, Bonazzo Claude, Jacco van Sterkenburg

Session III – Thursday 13:30 – 14:45
Black identities
Janet Awokoya, Anne Brubaker, Yanyi Djamba, Mizaba Abedi

Defining Race
Tiffany King, Arturo Nunez, Maisha Wester

Session IV – Thursday 15:00 – 16:15
Beyond the binary of race
Kaysha Corinealdi, José Luis Morín, Jodie Roure

Session IX – Saturday 09:00 – 10:15
European Identities
Daniel Carawan, Jon Keljik, Elizabeth Onasch, Samantha Pockele

The race in “mixed” race? Reiterations of power and identity
Sue-Je Gage, Rainier Spencer, Nicole Truesdell

Jared Sexton: People of Color-Blindness: Notes on the Afterlife of Slavery

University of Northern Arizona
Gardner Auditorium, W.A. Franke College of Business, NAU
2010-03-25, 17:30 to 19:00 CDT (Local Time)

Jared Sexton, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Film & Media Studies
University of California, Irvine
 
This lecture explores the significance of the ongoing shift in the color line from a white/non-white to black/non-black configuration in the post-civil rights era United States. It asks how we might reframe discussions of immigration, multiracialism (race mixture), and coalition-building among people of color in this context.

For more information, click here.

2010 Association for Asian American Studies Conference

Omni Austin Hotel Downtown
Austin, Texas
2010-04-07 through 2010-04-10

Theme: Emergent Cartographies: Asian American Studies in the Twenty-first Century

Selected programs from the conference schedule:

Panel
Transnational Perspectives on Beauty and Skin Color: China, Indonesia, and the Philippines
Friday 2010-04-09, 08:30-10:00 CDT (Local Time)

Chair: Paul Spickard, University of California, Santa Barbara

Amy Chang, Brown University
Rich and Fair: The Culture of Skin Whitening in China and Its Impact on Chinese-Americans

Joanne L. Rondilla, University of California, Berkeley
“From Ebony to Ivory”: Global Beauty, the Mixed Race Body and Cosmetics Advertising

L. Ayu Saraswati, University of Kansas
Affecting Whiteness: The Performativity of Affect in Constructing Whiteness Transnationally

Panel
Queer Takes on Asian American Culture Production
Friday 2010-04-09, 14:45-16:15 CDT (Local Time)

Chair: Victor Roman Mendoza, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Kekoa C. Kaluhiokalani, Muskingum University
Mixploitation, Counter-Apophasis, and James Duval: Mixed-Race Representation in Gregg Araki’s Teenage Apocalypse Trilogy

Rick H. Lee, Rutgers University
From A to Q: Literacy, Sexuality, and Shame in the Work of Justin Chin

Martin Joseph Ponce, Ohio State University
At Sea: Traveling Desires in The Book of Salt

Panel
Re-examining Japanese America
Saturday, 2010-04-10, 08:30-10:00 CDT (Local Time)

Chair: Eiichiro Azuma, University of Pennsylvania (?)

Cathleen K. Kozen, University of California, San Diego
‘Never Again!’: The Case of Japanese Latin/American Redress and the Politics of (Un)redressability

Christina Chin, University of California, Los Angeles
“Aren’t you a little short to play basketball?”: Gender roles and dynamics within Japanese American youth basketball leagues

Rachel Endo, The College of Saint Mary
Beyond Kodomo No Tame Ni: Japanese Immigrant Mothers and the Socialization of the New Nisei

Lily Anne Yumi Welty, University of California, Santa Barbara
Multiraciality and Migration: Mixed Race American Japanese 1945-1972

For more information, click here.

The Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meeting 2010

81st Annual PSA Meeting
2010-04-08 through 2010-04-11
Marriott Oakland City Center
Oakland, California

Theme: Revitalizing the Sociological Imagination: Individual Troubles & Social Issues in a Turbulent World

Selected programs from the Preliminary Program Guide include:

Friday, 2010-04-09, 12:00-13:10 PDT (Local Time)

86) Roundtables

Table 3: Mixed Race & Identity: The Social Construction of Race
Organizers: Michael McKail & Joanna Norton, UCR [University of California, Riverside]
Krystale Littlejohn, Stanford Univ.: Interracial Dating & Endogamy among Mixed race Youth in the U.S.
Charlene Johnson, Univ. of New Mexico: “Brokers” of Culture: Hearing Children of Deaf Adults at the Interchange of Ethnic Identity

Saturday, 2010-04-10, 15:30-17:00 PDT (Local Time)

192) Multi-Racial & Multi-Ethnic Identity: Contemporary Trends in Research
Organizer: Shigueru Tshua, UCR & Reginald Daniel, UCSB
Adam Louis Horowitz, Stanford Univ.: Don’t Hate on the Halfies: Religious Identity Formation Among Children of Inter-Religious Couples
Shigueru, Tshua, UCR: The Stacked Bar Model of Ethnic Identity: Peruvian Nikkei’s Shifting Identities from Peru to California
Rebecca Romo, UCSB: Between Black & Brown: Blaxican Identity in the United States
Reginald Daniel, UCSB: Hypocritical Hybridity & the Critical Difference: Postraciality in the Age of Obama

Sunday, 2010-04-11, 11:15-11:45 PDT (Local Time)

220) Minority Experiences
Organizer: Aya Kimura Ida, CSU Sacramento
Sabeen Sandhu, Santa Clara Univ.: Migration & Medical Degrees: U.S. Born Foreign Medical Graduates
Sarah Schlabach, UCLA: Family, Race & Gender: What Does It Mean To Be Multiracial?
Aya Kimura Ida, CSU Sacramento: Coping with Discrimination: Role of Self-Esteem for African Americans, Caribbean Americans & European Americans

For more information, click here.

Contentious Legacies: Mixed-Race in the Age of Colorblindess and Beyond

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champiagn
Asian American Cultural Center
2010-03-30
12:00 CDT (Local Time)

Tessa Winklemann

This presentation is about Mixed Race issues, the 2010 Census, and the history of the construction of race and the census in the United States.

For more information, click here.