Category: Live Events

  • Black History Month play explores interracial issues Orlando Sentinal 2010-02-20 Rosalind Jennings, Special To The Orlando Sentinel Leesburg, [Florida] – Dolores Sandoval’s paternal grandmother was an African slave on a plantation, and that ancestor’s father was the white plantation owner. So she was mixed racially – an “octoroon,” which is one-eighth African. “Her father owned…

  • The African Presence in Mexico A Symposium Presented by Callaloo – A Journal of African Diapora Arts and Letters and The Center for Africana Studies, Johns Hopkins University 2008-10-22 through 2008-10-23 Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Sessions The Road to Blackness: A Search for Identity Within the Afro-Mexican Community (audio, photographs) Slavery and Freedom…

  • Mixed Race in the Age of Obama University of Chicago Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture (CSRPC) International House, Home Room 1414 East 59th Street, Chicago, IL 2010-03-05, 09:00 to 18:00 CST (Local Time) The Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of  Chicago presents a daylong…

  • Representing gods in a mixed-race society: Images, rituals and politics in María Lionza’s cult (Venezuela) University of St. Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom Centre for Amerindian, Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CAS) Social Anthropology Seminar Room (Room 50, St Salvator’s Building) 2010-03-17, 15:00Z to 17:00Z Roger Canals University of Barcelona Roger Canals, University of Barcelona, will…

  • TALK: India and Gaugin’s Tahitian Nudes: Mapping Modernism In A Global Frame Interdisciplinary Humanities Center University of California, Santa Barbara 3041 HSSB 2010-02-17 16:00 PST (Local Time) Saloni Mathur, Associate Professor of Art History University of California, Los Angeles This presentation will revisit the legacy of Amrita Sher-Gil, the part-Indian/part-Hungarian painter who stands at the…

  • An Evening with Kip Fulbeck-artist, slam poet, filmmaker Event Type: Lecture Sacramento State University University Union Ballroom 2010-02-18, 19:00-21:00 PST (Local Time) Contact:  (916) 278-6997  An Evening With Kip Fulbeck, artist, slam poet, and filmmaker- addressing issues on identity, multiraciality, and pop culture through spoken word, stand-up comedy, political activism, and personal stories, University Union…

  • Interrogating Identities: Exploring Racism, Community and Belonging Among Mixed Race Youth in Canada Centre for Culture, Identity and Education University of British Columbia 2008-04-02 Video Length: 00:27:20 Leanne Taylor York University Youth Research Symposium – Video-stream. (April 2, 2008). These video streams feature speakers from the Day-Long Youth Research Symposium and showcase the role of…

  • Geek Out: Mixed Race in America University of Californa, Berkeley Lawrence Hall of Science 2010-02-10, 19:00 to 22:00 PST (Local Time) Geek Discourse Tour the “Race: Are We So Different?” exhibit and participate in a discussion facilitated by Dr. Victoria Robinson of the UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies and American Cultures programs on what it means…

  • ‘Multiracial Identity’ documentary film and discussion Portland State University 228 Smith Union Wednesday, 2010-03-03, from 18:30-21:00 PST (Local Time) This new documentary explores the social and political impact of adding a Multiracial Category (the fastest growing demographic in America) as a stand-alone racial group on the US Census. Different racial and cultural groups see multiracialism…

  • Prejudice inspires filmmaker to discover Afro-German roots Indiana Daily Student Indiana University 2010-01-24 Abby Liebenthal, Staff Reporter “It all started with a public threat on my life.” Within the first few minutes of Mo Asumang’s documentary “Roots Germania,” students, faculty and Bloomington residents became part of a search for the director’s identity… …Asumang said the…