Category: United States

  • What was the source of Krazy Kat’s comic genius? The Washington Post 2016-12-06 Glen David Gold Michael Tisserand, Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White (New York: HarperCollins, 2016) Genius is simplicity. A dog, who is a policeman, loves a cat, who loves a mouse. The mouse throws bricks at the cat, and…

  • What I Found in Standing Rock The Players’ Tribune 2016-12-01 Bronson Koenig, Guard Wisconsin Badgers Photos by Alexandra Hootnick/The Players’ Tribune Near the edge of the Standing Rock camp in North Dakota, about 50 yards from a tributary of the Missouri River, there’s a basketball hoop. It’s one of those worn-out outdoor hoops that leans…

  • “It’s my black girl who looks like a white girl with a tan and a bad hair day.”

  • Trevor Noah Still Doesn’t Get It BuzzFeed 2016-12-06 Tomi Obaro, BuzzFeed News Reporter Trevor Noah (Paul Zimmerman / Getty Images) The Daily Show host and biracial South African comic’s recent comments suggest a profound misunderstanding of the way racism works in America. “There’s many assumptions I’ve made about America that I’ve realized were wrong,” said Trevor…

  • The Color of American Genomics: Genetics in the Era of Racialized Medicine University of California, Los Angeles 306 Royce Hall 340 Royce Drive Los Angeles, California 90095 Friday, 2016-12-09, 13:30-16:30 PST (Local Time) SPEAKERS: Michael Montoya, Associate Professor University of California, Irvine Sandra Soo Jin Lee, Senior Research Scholar Stanford University Joan Donovan University of…

  • Skin deep North By Northwestern Fall 2016 Mira Wang Photo by Alex Furuya / North by Northwestern Cracking the foundations of white beauty. When I was younger, my Asian American friends and I would play house. We’d be older, popular and wise to the world. We’d have cars and phones and play dates at the…

  • Race In The Northwest: Hood River Man Learns His Family’s Surprising Truth Oregon Public Broadcasting 2016-12-07 Anna Griffin, News Director Hood River writer and cidermaker John Metta. Anna Griffin/OPB Hood River, Oregon—John Metta grew up thinking of himself as mixed race: His mother was white. His father’s side of the family proudly proclaimed themselves a blend of…

  • How Jews Became White Folks — and May Become Nonwhite Under Trump Forward 2016-12-06 Karen Brodkin, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology University of California, Los Angeles Decades before I wrote the book “How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says About Race in America,” I had an eye-opening conversation with my parents. I asked them…

  • “Us versus Them” – A Thought on the Complexities of Multiracial Passing Multiracial Media: Voice of the Multiracial Community 2016-12-08 Joanna L. Thompson, Ph.D. Candidate Department of Criminology, Law, and Justice University of Illinois, Chicago Is this an example of “Multiracial Passing?” Photo credit: YouTube Recently, a post on TheRoot.com discussed the challenges Sofia Richie,…

  • Family Business Complex December 2016/January 2017 Written by Rebecca Haithcoat Photography by Sasha Samsonova Sofia Ritchie Sofia Richie has been known to the world as Lionel Richie’s daughter, Nicole Richie’s half-sister, and Justin Bieber’s BAE. Now, the aspiring model is ready to make her solo debut—Without Losing her Privacy. Sorry—Sofia Richie does not want to…