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  • The Greatest Pretender: Korla Pandit, music’s most magnificent fraud

    Korla Pandit spoke not a word when he was on camera. He just wore a bejeweled turban, played the organ… and stared. That was the extent of his act. It was all he needed — the shimmery tones of his music, the vague evocation of the Far East, and that indelible Mona Lisa countenance with…

  • From Multiracial to Transgender? Assessing Attitudes toward Expanding Gender Options on the US Census

    From Multiracial to Transgender? Assessing Attitudes toward Expanding Gender Options on the US Census Transgender Studies Quarterly Volume 2, Number 1, February 2015 pages 77-100 DOI: 10.1215/23289252-2848895 Kristen Schilt, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Jenifer Bratter, Associate Professor of Sociology Rice University, Houston, Texas In 2000, the US Census Bureau acknowledged…

  • OPINION: The changing racial makeup

    OPINION: The changing racial makeup Commerce News Today Commerce, Georgia 2015-10-13 Cameron Whitlock, Reporter The racial makeup of the United States is changing. That’s not an opinion, that’s a cold hard fact. By 2050, racial minority groups will make up a majority of the U.S. population. According to the U.S. Census Bureau and a study…

  • Lecture, forum at UH-Hilo to explore Filipino identity

    Lecture, forum at UH-Hilo to explore Filipino identity Hawaii Tribune-Herald Hilo, Hawaii 2015-10-13 Dr. Ronald R. Sundstrom Dr. Ronald Sundstrom, professor of philosophy at the University of San Francisco, will deliver a public lecture titled “The Filipino-American Experience and The Post-Racial State” from 4-5:30 p.m. Friday at the University of Hawaii at Hilo UCB 127.…

  • Art for Obama: Designing Manifest Hope And The Campaign For Change

    Art for Obama: Designing Manifest Hope And The Campaign For Change Abrams 2009-10-01 184 pages 150 full-color illustrations Trim Size: 9 x 11 Paperback ISBN: 0-8109-8498-9 Edited by: Shepard Fairey Jennifer Gross Few events in recent memory have captivated the world’s attention like that of Barack Obama’s historic presidential campaign. Not only did it stir…

  • Exotic Korla Pandit hid race under swami persona

    Exotic Korla Pandit hid race under swami persona SFGate 2015-08-15 Jessica Zack Eric Christensen grew up in San Francisco in the 1950s and remembers his mother, “like a lot of women then, being transfixed by Korla Pandit on television. He wore a jeweled turban and had these mesmerizing eyes that made women feel he could…

  • Health Care, Research Failing to Adapt to U.S.’s Growing Multiracial Population

    Health Care, Research Failing to Adapt to U.S.’s Growing Multiracial Population School of Social Work University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 2015-10-12 Data collection methods in research and health care settings have lagged behind in adapting to the rapidly growing population of multiracials, according to studies led by social work professor Karen M. Tabb Dina Multiracial people…

  • Disparities in Health Services Use Among Multiracial American Young Adults

    Disparities in Health Services Use Among Multiracial American Young Adults Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health First online: 2015-09-29 8 pages DOI: 10.1007/s10903-015-0289-7 Karen M. Tabb, Assistant Professor of Social Work University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Christopher R. Larrison, Associate Professor of Social Work University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Shinwoo Choi School of Social Work University of…

  • Musician’s life brings more than passing interest in passing

    Musician’s life brings more than passing interest in passing San Francisco Chronicle 2015-07-28 Leah Garchik, Features Columnist As colleagues at KGO-TV, Eric Christensen and John Turner — Eric was a sports producer, John a news editor/arts producer — shared a passion for exotic cultural phenomena. Retired, they’ve combined know-how with that passion to make the…

  • I Am the Blood of the Conqueror; I Am the Blood of the Conquered

    I Am the Blood of the Conqueror; I Am the Blood of the Conquered Christina Torres: Teacher. Runner. Writer. 2015-10-12 Christina Torres, Middle and high school English and Drama Teacher University Laboratory School, Honolulu, Hawaii I didn’t know the true extent of Columbus’s reign of horror until a few months ago. Sitting in a Nashville…