Category: Interviews

  • Butterfield featured on ‘Colbert Report’ The Wilson Times Wilson, North Carolina Tuesday, 2014-03-25 Corey Friedman, Times Online Editor Comic pundit Stephen Colbert argued Obamacare and the Racial Justice Act with U.S. Rep. G.K. Butterfield while bashing North Carolina barbecue in a playful segment spotlighting Wilson’s congressional district. Butterfield, a Democrat representing the state’s 1st District,…

  • Stephen Colbert Is Confused About G. K. Butterfield’s Race In Latest ‘Better Know A District’ The Huffington Post 2014-03-25 Carol Hartsell, Senior Comedy Editor Stephen Colbert unveiled a new edition of “Better Know A District” on Monday’s show, and it was chock-full of racial misunderstandings, confusing questions and barbecue taste tests… like all of his…

  • Interview with upcoming CultureFest Performer Laura Kina Multiracial Network Blog 2014-03-07 To start us off, we have an interview from our CultureFest performer Laura Kina! As can also be found on her website (http://www.laurakina.com/) Laura is an artist and scholar who focuses “on the fluidity of cultural difference and the slipperiness of identity”. With subjects…

  • Featured Writer: Daniel York Banana Writers​: Where Asian writers get unpeeled 2013-10-11 P. P. Wong Daniel York is a successful scriptwriter, director and actor who is passionate about championing equal rights for creative East Asians. Born of mixed Chinese and English parentage, the talented British writer was selected as part of the Royal Court’s Unheard Voices initiative for emerging East Asian writers.…

  • News Nation with Tamron Hall (with guest Yaba Blay) News Nation with Tamron Hall 2014-02-25 Drexel University Professor Yaba Blay discusses her new book (1)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race with host Tamron Hall. Watch the interview here.

  • On Race, Medicine, and Reproduction: An Interview with Dorothy Roberts Bluestockings Magazine Brown University February 2014 (2014-02-14) Dorothy Roberts is a scholar, professor, author and social justice advocate, and currently the 14th Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She has published a range of groundbreaking articles and books analyzing issues…

  • ‘Mixed’ [Watson Review] Inside Higher Ed 2014-01-31 Andrea Watson Garrod, Andrew, Christina Gómez, Robert Kilkenny, Mixed: Multiracial College Students Tell Their Life Stories (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013). 208 pages. Mixed (Cornell University Press) is a collection of 12 autobiographical essays written by college students who identify as multiracial. Unlike most books that focus on…

  • Dr. Linda Isako Angst discusses Hapa Identity APA Compass KBOO FM Community Radio Portland, Oregon 2012-02-03 Anna Preble, Host Linda Isako Angst, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Oxford College of Emory University, Oxford, Georgia Dr. Linda Isako Angst, educator and anthropologist, and discusses ethnic identity, racially mixed identity, and stereotypes during a Hapa diversity workshop…

  • Going the Distance: On and off the road with Barack Obama. The New Yorker 2014-01-27 David Remnick, Editor Obama’s Presidency is on the clock. Hard as it has been to pass legislation, the coming year is a marker, the final interval before the fight for succession becomes politically all-consuming. On the Sunday afternoon before Thanksgiving,…

  • “A Lot Like You” ~ Where Will Your Cultural Journey Take You? Mixed Race Radio Blog Talk Radio 2014-01-15, 20:00Z (15:00 EDT) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host Eliaichi Kimaro, Filmmaker On today’s episode of Mixed Race Radio, we will meet Activist-turned-filmmaker Eliaichi Kimaro. As the director of 9elephants productions, Eli produces videos for non-profits about social…