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  • Were the riots about race?

    Were the riots about race? The Guardian 2011-12-08 Reading the Riots: Investigating England’s summer of disorder In partnership with the London School of Economics Supported by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Open Society Foundations Hugh Muir, Diary Editor Yemisi Adegoke, Freelance Journalist Some commentators were quick to call them ‘race riots’, but the true…

  • Talking Race w/ Social Critic/Legal Scholar Dorothy Roberts

    Talking Race w/ Social Critic/Legal Scholar Dorothy Roberts Blogtalk Radio Tuesday, 2011-10-11 Michelle McCrary, Host Is That Your Child? Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology; Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights University of Pennsylvania ITYC is honored to welcome leading legal scholar and social critic…

  • TV Review: Mixed Race Britain – Mixed Britannia

    TV Review: Mixed Race Britain – Mixed Britannia BioNews Number 630 (2011-10-24) Anoushka Shepherd Mixed Race Britain: Mixed Britannia, BBC2, 6-20 October 2011, Presented by George Alagiah I am mixed race, and thereby a member the fastest growing ethnic minority in the UK. My British dad met my Sri Lankan mum while travelling in the…

  • Post-Raciality or a Re-Imagining of Whiteness: an Interview with Clarence E. Walker

    Post-Raciality or a Re-Imagining of Whiteness: an Interview with Clarence E. Walker Platform: Journal of Media and Communication Volume 3, Issue 1, Media and “Race” (April 2011) pages 26-34 ISSN: 1836-5132 Sandy Watson, University of Melbourne, Australia Clarence Walker is recognised as one of the leading historians of American race relations, and is noted for…

  • Rejoining the Parts: A Conversation with Jane Lazarre About Race, Fiction, American History and Her New Novel, Inheritance

    Rejoining the Parts: A Conversation with Jane Lazarre About Race, Fiction, American History and Her New Novel, Inheritance Tenured Radical The Chronicle of Higher Education 2011-11-15 Claire Potter, Professor of History and American Studies Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut Jane Lazarre is a writer of fiction, memoir and poetry who has published many books, beginning with…

  • There are Italians with black skin

    There are Italians with black skin Africa News 2010-05-28 Stephen Ogongo Interview with Sabrina Jacobucci, President of Association of Afro-Italian Children To be black and Italian at the same time is a new reality the Italian society is still struggling to accept.  Adoption and increase in the number of mixed marriages between Italians and Africans…

  • Interview with Zara Paul: A Future Leader

    Interview with Zara Paul: A Future Leader London School of Economics 2011-10-26 Zara Paul recently graduated from LSE. She has been listed among the top 100 black graduates of the UK in the Future Leaders magazine 2011-12. In this interview she talks about her time at LSE, her passion for music, what being mixed race…

  • Professor Daniel J. Sharfstein to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat

    Professor Daniel J. Sharfstein to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed. Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox, Heidi W. Durrow and Jennifer Frappier Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #230 – Professor…

  • Glenn Robinson to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat

    Glenn Robinson to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed. Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox, Heidi W. Durrow and Jennifer Frappier Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #227? – Glenn Robinson When:…

  • Professor Michele Elam to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat

    Mixed Chicks Chat will be talking with Michele Elam about her work on mixed-race identity and her new book, “The Souls of Mixed Folks: Race, Aesthetics & Politics in the New Millenium” which examines representations of mixed race in literature and the arts that redefine new millennial aesthetics and politics.