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  • Carlton Mackey: Conversations beyond color

    Carlton Mackey: Conversations beyond color Emory Profile Emory News Center 2013-11-22 Kimber Williams As director of Emory’s Ethics and the Arts program — and a lifelong photographer and filmmaker — Carlton Mackey is used to exploring the questions that intrigue him through an artist’s lens.  So as he prepared to become a father for the…

  • Dr. Yaba Blay to Appear Tonight on “Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell”

    Dr. Yaba Blay to Appear Tonight on “Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell” Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell FXX Wednesday, 2013-11-13, 23:00 EST (2013-11-14, 04:00Z) W. Kamau Bell, Executive Producer and Host Tonight on Totally Biased, we proudly welcome Dr. Yaba Blay!  Dr. Yaba Blay is a professor, producer, and publisher. As a researcher…

  • ‘Hafu’ tells story of Japan’s mixed-race minority and changing attitudes in society

    ‘Hafu’ tells story of Japan’s mixed-race minority and changing attitudes in society Japan Today 2013-11-15 Philip Kendall TOKYO—For such a small word, “half” carries an awful lot of weight here in Japan. Adapted to fit the syllabary, the word is pronounced “hafu” in Japanese, and describes a person who has one Japanese – and of…

  • Dr. Yaba Blay on shifting the lens on race

    Dr. Yaba Blay on shifting the lens on race Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane WHYY 90.9 FM Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2013-10-30 Who is black? And who is not? “Mixed/Jamerian,” “Black/Latina,” “Appalachian African American” are examples of how some people of color describe themselves. Drexel University Africana Studies professor Dr. Yaba Blay explores the nuances of the…

  • Playwright Sarah Rutherford on her play Adult Supervision

    Playwright Sarah Rutherford on her play Adult Supervision TheatreVOICE Department of Theatre & Performance Victoria and Albert Museum 2013-10-22 Heather Neill Interview: Sarah Rutherford The playwright talks to Heather Neill about her new drama, Adult Supervision, a story about race which is currently playing at the Park Theatre in London’s Finsbury Park in Jez Bond’s…

  • Growing Up Black in American Apartheid – Ford Pt1

    Growing Up Black in American Apartheid – Ford Pt1 Reality Asserts Itself The Real News Network 2013-10-23 Paul Jay, Host Glen Ford, Executive Editor Black Agenda Report On Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay: Glen Ford, Executive Editor of Black Agenda Report, tells his story as a red-diaper baby, growing up facing racism in the…

  • An Essentially American Narrative

    An Essentially American Narrative The New York Times 2013-10-11 Nelson George A Discussion of Steve McQueen’s Film ‘12 Years a Slave’ Amid comic book epics, bromantic comedies and sequels of sequels, films about America’s tortured racial history have recently emerged as a surprisingly lucrative Hollywood staple. In the last two years, “The Help,” “Lincoln,””Django Unchained,””42”…

  • Playwright Sarah Rutherford: ‘Middle-class, mixed-race families are invisible on our stages’

    Playwright Sarah Rutherford: ‘Middle-class, mixed-race families are invisible on our stages’ What’s on Stage London 2013-10-10 Editorial Staff As her new play Adult Supervision premieres at the Park Theatre, playwright Sarah Rutherford discusses multiculturalism in modern Britain What’s Adult Supervision about? It’s set in 2008 and it’s about a white ex-lawyer, Natasha, who’s adopted two…

  • “The United States of the United Races” w/ Dr. Greg Carter

    “The United States of the United Races” w/ Dr. Greg Carter Mixed Race Radio Blog Talk Radio 2013-09-25, 16:00Z (12:00 EDT) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host Greg Carter, Associate Professor of History University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee On Today’s episode of Mixed Race Radio we will meet Professor Greg Carter, author of The United States of the…

  • Quadroons for Beginners: Discussing the Suppressed and Sexualized History of Free Women of Color with Author Emily Clark

    As an American, I follow my roots like trails across the globe. My mother is from Kansas and is of German descent, and my deceased father was black with roots in North Carolina, and before then, Africa. Arguably you can trace all of us back to Africa. But my parents’ union created me: a black…