Category: United States

  • The Mixed-Race in-betweeners The Columbia Spectator New York, New York 2015-11-12 Keenan Smith I am Mixed-Race. I am both Black and white. I am also American and have therefore been raised in a culture that seems to be constantly divided along racial boundaries, whether they are in campus diversity and inclusion programs or identity-based organizations,…

  • What Happened in Missouri Puts the Nation on Notice Time 2015-11-10 Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., William S. Tod Professor of Religion and African-American Studies Princeton University Imagine what could happen at Ohio State or UCLA or any other major university. The activists already have. What happened at the University of Missouri has sent shockwaves throughout…

  • I’m white in Barcelona but in Los Angeles I’m Hispanic? Public Radio International 2015-10-27 Jaime Gonzalez, BBC World Service Journalist Los Angeles, California “You’re not white, where are you from?” This is how I was greeted a few months ago by a young Black man I interviewed in Los Angeles for a story I was…

  • Taye Diggs wants son to embrace being mixed, not choose black or white The Grio 2015-11-13 Chris Witherspoon, Entertainment Editor Last month, Taye Diggs released his second children’s book, Mixed Me, inspired by his biracial 6-year-old son, Walker. His mother is actress and singer Indina Menzel. In a society in which it is sometimes hard…

  • UPDATE: Mike Middleton is named interim UM System president The Columbia Missourian Columiba, Missouri 2015-11-12 Emma VanDelinder and Alexa Ahern Interim UM System President Michael Middleton speaks at his introductory news conference Thursday at University Hall. Middleton was the first black professor in the MU School of Law. More recently, he served as deputy chancellor…

  • A course originally called ‘The Problem of Whiteness’ returns to Arizona State The Washington Post 2015-11-12 Yanan Wang Freedom of speech. Racial inequality. Student activism. Safe spaces. These are the phrases that have been lobbied about over the past week, in tones both fervent and contemptuous, as University of Missouri students successfully campaigned for the…

  • People talked of a ‘post-racial’ US when I arrived in 2008. That seems ludicrous now The Guardian 2015-11-13 Hari Kunzru I arrived in New York in 2008, in the midst of a bitterly fought election campaign. When Barack Obama declared victory, I was standing at the corner of 125th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Jr…

  • Racial Microaggressions Among Asian American and Latino/a Students at a Historically Black University Journal of College Student Development Volume 56, Number 7, October 2015 pages 705-722 DOI: 10.1353/csd.2015.0076 Robert T. Palmer, Associate Professor Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Howard University, Washington, D.C. Dina C. Maramba, Assistant Professor of Student Affairs Administration Binghampton University,…

  • Clarion University forced to cancel play over actors’ race Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2015-11-12 Bill Schackner, Higher Education Writer Student actors and the stage crew at Clarion University arrived Tuesday evening for one of the final rehearsals before next week’s campus opening of “Jesus in India” only to learn the off-Broadway production they had spent…

  • Intermarriage and Integration Revisited: International Experiences and Cross-Disciplinary Approaches The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Volume 662, November 2015 Guest Edited by: Dan Rodríguez-García, Associate Professor Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Intermarriage has been a subject of study in the social sciences for…