Category: Interviews

  • This is the first in a series of interviews with scholars, writers, activists and others involved with the topic of multiracilism.

  • Danzy Senna The Southeast Review 2010-05-01 The Southeast Review is published by Florida State University’s Creative Writing Program. Interviewed by Janeen Price Danzy Senna is the author of two novels, a memoir, numerous essays and works of short fiction. Her debut novel, Caucasia, a coming-of-age story, was named the Los Angeles Times Best Book of…

  • Colorism: The War at Home Ebony Magazine News & Views 2013-02-20 Chris Williams Dr. Yaba Blay discusses the history of ‘the color complex’ and how we can work to destroy it The “color complex” has remains a source of great controversy and pain in the African American community and across much of the African Diaspora.…

  • Interview with PhD Student Karla Lucht: Children’s Literature about Mixed-Race Asian Americans/Canadians The Center for Children’s Books Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign February 2013 Tad Andracki, CCB Outreach Coordinator “Everyone deserves to see themselves represented in a book. And a good book at that.” GSLIS doctoral student Karla…

  • ITYC Interview: Multicultural Psychologist and Author Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu Is That Your Child? Thought in Full Color 2013-02-11 Michelle Clark-McCrary, Host Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu Stanford University ITYC had the great pleasure of talking with multicultural psychologist and author Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu about his latest book When Half is Whole: Multiethnic Asian Identities. Through deeply personal, raw storytelling, When…

  • Betwixt & Between~Multiracial Identity=A Denial of Blackness Mixed Race Radio 2013-02-06, 17:00Z (12:00 EST) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host G. Reginald Daniel, Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara G. Reginald Daniel, Professor of Sociology, teaches courses exploring comparative race and ethnic relations. Since 1989, he has taught “Betwixt and Between,” which is one of…

  • Michael Jeffries on the Cultural Significance of President Obama Wellesley College News Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts 2013-01-18 New Book by Wellesley American Studies Professor Tackles Race in America Michael Jeffries, Knafel Assistant Professor of Social Sciences and Assistant Professor of American Studies, studies race, gender, politics, identity, and popular culture. His new book, Paint the…

  • “I Got Indian in my Family”~A Discussion on Indian Identity Mixed Race Radio 2013-01-23, 17:00Z (12:00 EST) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host Dwanna L. Robertson University of Massachusetts, Amherst On today’s episode of Mixed Race Radio we will speak with Dwanna L. Robertson and discuss issues of Identity: What does it mean to be Indian in…

  • On Raising Asian-Jewish Children The Jewish Daily Forward the sisterhood: where jewish women converse 2011-05-30 Renee Ghert-Zand The recent Forward article “Raising Children on Kugel and Kimchi, and as Jews” centered on a new study that found that many families in which one parent is Jewish and the other is Asian are raising their children…

  • A 400 Year Old History of Tri-Racial People: In Real Life Mixed Race Radio 2013-01-16, 17:00Z (12:00 EST) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host Marvin T. Jones, Executive Director Chowan Discovery Group Marvin T. Jones is the Executive Director of the Chowan Discovery Group (CDG).  The mission of the CDG is to research, document, preserve and present…