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  • What is Luring a Million Chinese to Africa?

    What is Luring a Million Chinese to Africa? OZY 2014-05-15 Jacob Kushner Like immigrants the world over, the million Chinese who’ve landed in Africa are plucky, hugely ambitious and have an eye for opportunity. They’re also helping make China a big player on a continent once dominated by the West. You’ve seen the headlines: China…

  • Kaneesha Parsard on (1)ne Drop and the Multiplicity of Blackness

    Kaneesha Parsard on (1)ne Drop and the Multiplicity of Blackness Climbing Vines: A Collection of Short Stories 2014-05-01 Janday Wilson When you think of blackness what do you see? Dr. Yaba Blay’s multiplatform project (1)ne Drop and book (1)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race complicate the answers to that question. In the book, visually…

  • The Origins of “Privilege”

    The Origins of “Privilege” The New Yorker 2014-05-13 Joshua Rothman, Archive Editor The idea of “privilege”—that some people benefit from unearned, and largely unacknowledged, advantages, even when those advantages aren’t discriminatory —has a pretty long history. In the nineteen-thirties, W. E. B. Du Bois wrote about the “psychological wage” that enabled poor whites to feel…

  • Culture File – Race and the Irish Screen

    Culture File – Race and the Irish Screen RTÉ Lyric FM 2014-05-15 Fin Keegan, Host Zélie Asava, Lecturer and Programme Director of Video and Film Dundalk Institute of Technology, Louth, Ireland What can the Irish horror movie tell us about attitudes to race? And can a mixed race guard [police] in an Irish crime series,…

  • Exploring the Political Exploitation of Blood Quantum in the U.S.

    Exploring the Political Exploitation of Blood Quantum in the U.S. Indian Country Today Media Network 2013-05-17 Vincent Schilling, Executive Vice President Schilling Media, Inc. Arica L. Coleman is an assistant professor of Black American Studies at the University of Delaware. She is African American and Native American (Rappahannock), which may help explain why she has…

  • Fathers of Conscience with Bernie D. Jones [Part 2]

    Fathers of Conscience with Bernie D. Jones [Part 2] Research at the National Archives & Beyond Blogtalk Radio 2014-05-08, 21:00 EDT (2014-05-09, 02:00Z) Bernice Bennett, Host Bernie D. Jones, Associate Professor of Law Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts Join Author Bernie D. Jones for an engaging discussion about her book – Fathers of Conscience – Mixed-Race…

  • Interview with Carole Brennan from Mixed Race Irish

    Interview with Carole Brennan from Mixed Race Irish Een Vlaming in Ierland/ A Fleming in Ireland 2014-03-28 Roos Demol It has been quite a week in Ireland, with the new problems for Mr Shatter, the news that over 2000 phone calls were taped in Garda offices around the country, which could bring a lot of…

  • The Robbins Family at War with Marvin Jones

    The Robbins Family at War with Marvin Jones Research at the National Archives and Beyond BlogTalk Radio Thursday, 2014-04-03, 21:00 EDT, (Friday, 2014-04-04, 01:00Z) Bernice Bennett, Host Marvin T. Jones, Executive Director Chowan Discovery Group “The Robbins Family at War” – it is about a Native American family who lived through colonial wars of the…

  • David Walker & Color of Film + In The Mix doc on mixed-race artists

    David Walker & Color of Film + In The Mix doc on mixed-race artists Stage & Studio KMZE 107.1 FM Gresham, Oregon 2014-03-25 Dmae Roberts, Host [At 00:28:46] “In The Mix: Conversations with Artists…Between Races” by Dmae Roberts is a radio exploration of Mixed Race with novelist Lisa See, Playwright Heather Raffo, Writer/Conceptual Artist damali ayo, Playwright…

  • “Hiding in Plain Sight: Mixed Blood Families and Race in the 19th-Century United States West”

    “Hiding in Plain Sight: Mixed Blood Families and Race in the 19th-Century United States West” Public Radio Tulsa Studio Tulsa Tulsa, Oklahoma 2014-03-25 Rich Fisher, General Manager & Host Our guest on ST is Anne Hyde, the William R. Hochman Professor of History at Colorado College. She’ll be giving the 2014 H.G. Barnard Distinguished Lecture,…