Mixed Race Studies

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  • Saskatchewan artist Leah Dorion features Métis women in stunning exhibit

    Saskatchewan artist Leah Dorion features Métis women in stunning exhibit CBC News 2015-11-08 Visual artist Leah Dorion said this painting is dedicated to Catherine Beaulieu Bouvier from Fort Providence, N.W.T. (Eric Anderson/CBC) Country Wives and Daughters of the Country: Métis Women of This Land at the Affinity Gallery Visual artist Leah Marie Dorion grew up…

  • Sense of Place with Guest Sharon H. Chang

    Sense of Place with Guest Sharon H. Chang Sense of Place Roundhouse Radio 98.3 FM Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada November 2015 Minelle Mahtani, Host Minelle Mahtani and Sharon H. Chang (Source: Facebook) Author, scholar, sociologist, and activist Sharon H. Chang discusses her new book Raising Mixed Race: Multiracial Asian Children in a Post-Racial World. Listen…

  • Minelle Mahtani is the New Host of “Sense of Place” on Roundhouse Radio 98.3 Vancouver

    Minelle Mahtani is an author, journalist and professor. She is an Associate Professor of Human Geography and Planning, and the Program in Journalism, at University of Toronto-Scarborough. She has written two books, “Mixed Race Amnesia: Resisting the Romanticization of Multiraciality” and “Global Mixed Race.”

  • Professor Minelle Mahtani on ‘Raising Mixed Race’ in Canada

    Professor Minelle Mahtani on ‘Raising Mixed Race’ in Canada Multiracial Asian Families 2015-10-29 Sharon H. Chang Following are closing remarks given by Minelle Mahtani after the premiere of my new book Raising Mixed Race: Multiracial Asian Children In a Post-Racial World at Hapa-Palooza Festival 2015, Vancouver B.C. Minelle Mahtani is Associate Professor of Human Geography…

  • Public Symposium — DNA and Indigeneity

    Public Symposium — DNA and Indigeneity Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage (IPinCH) Simon Fraser University Harbour Centre Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 2015-10-22, 12:30-17:30 PDT (Local Time) On October 22 at 12:30 pm, join us for the DNA and Indigeneity: The Changing Role of Genetics in Indigenous Rights, Tribal Belonging, and Repatriation conference in downtown Vancouver.…

  • Human Variation: A Genetic Perspective on Diversity, Race, and Medicine

    Human Variation: A Genetic Perspective on Diversity, Race, and Medicine Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 2014 131 pages (21 4C, 5B&W), index Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-621820-90-1 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-936113-25-5 Edited by: Aravinda Chakravarti, Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, Molecular Biology & Genetics, and, Biostatistics Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Institute of Genetic Medicine Since the appearance…

  • Raising Mixed Kids: Family Workshop with Sharon Chang

    Raising Mixed Kids: Family Workshop with Sharon Chang Hapa-palooza Festival 2015 Heartwood Community Cafe 317 E. Broadway Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Saturday, 2015-09-19, 18:00-20:00 PDT (Local Time) Sharon H. Chang, author, scholar, sociologist and activist Multiracial Asian Families How do we have transformative race conversations with multi-racial children when most grownups aren’t even able to…

  • Hapa-palooza 2015: Celebrate mixed heritage and own your identity

    Hapa-palooza 2015: Celebrate mixed heritage and own your identity Vancouver Observer Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 2015-09-06 Jordan Yerman Mixed-race, outsider, or ‘half-breed’: you’re not alone at Hapa-palooza. Get in on Canada’s largest celebration of mixed heritage. Tôi là người lai mỹ means “I’m an American half-breed”. Author and publisher Brandy Liên Worrall wrote it in…

  • Vancouver’s Hapa Festival, All Grown Up

    Vancouver’s Hapa Festival, All Grown Up The Tyee Vancouver, British Columbia Canada 2015-09-03 Christopher Cheung From one generation to another, an identity conversation continues. Jeff Chiba Stearns is about to be a father in November, and there’s an important conversation he wants to have with his daughter that he never had with his own family…

  • All Mixed Up: examining mixed children and unions

    All Mixed Up: examining mixed children and unions The Source Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Volume 16, Issue 5 (September 8-22, 2015) Florence Hwang Sharon Chang says she embodies “mixedness.” Chang’s thoughtful examination about growing up multiracial at this year’s Hapapalooza festival: “Raising Mixed Kids: Family Workshop” will be at the Heartwood Community Café, Sept. 19…