Category: United States

  • My Response to Critics Regarding My For Harriet Article about Mixed Race Identity I’m Not Mixed Up, I’m Fully Mixed 2015-08-15 Shannon Luders-Manuel On Wednesday, For Harriet published my article “What it Means to be Mixed Race During the Fight for Black Lives.” It quickly took off and has received over 23,000 Facebook shares/likes by…

  • “Red Velvet” spins a fascinating true story The Berkshire Eagle Pittsfield, Massachusetts 2015-08-13 Jeffrey Borak, Entertainment Editor and Theater Critic LENOX — Actor Ira Aldridge isn’t in the American Theater Hall of Fame; his name is barely a whisper in the annals of American theater. That shouldn’t be, say director Daniela Varon and actor John…

  • Cedric Dover, the Anglo-Indian Who Sought Worldwide Solidarity With Racial Minorities The Wire 2015-08-10 Elisabeth Engel, Research Fellow German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. Slate, Nico, The Prism of Race: W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, and the Colored World of Cedric Dover (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) The scholarship that takes up W.E.B. Du…

  • Negotiating cultural ambiguity: the role of markets and consumption in multiracial identity development Consumption Markets & Culture Volume 18, Issue 4, 2015 pages 301-332 DOI: 10.1080/10253866.2015.1019483 Robert L. Harrison III, Associate Professor of Marketing Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan Kevin D. Thomas, Assistant Professor Stan Richards School of Advertising & Public Relations University of Texas,…

  • The Prism of Race: W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, and the Colored World of Cedric Dover Palgrave Macmillan December 2014 268 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9781137484093 Ebook (PDF) ISBN: 9781137484116 Ebook (EPUB) ISBN: 9781137484109 Nico Slate, Associate Professor of History Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Born a Eurasian ‘half-caste‘ in Calcutta in 1904, Cedric…

  • Meghan Markle, star of the hit show “Suits,” opens up about creating her identity and finding her voice as a mixed race woman

  • The Japanese women who married the enemy BBC News Magazine 2015-08-16 Vanessa Barford Seventy years ago many Japanese people in occupied Tokyo after World War Two saw US troops as the enemy. But tens of thousands of young Japanese women married GIs nonetheless – and then faced a big struggle to find their place in…

  • Julian Bond, Former N.A.A.C.P. Chairman and Civil Rights Leader, Dies at 75 The New York Times 2015-08-16 Roy Reed Julian Bond, a charismatic figure of the 1960s civil rights movement, a lightning rod of the anti-Vietnam War campaign and a lifelong champion of equal rights for minorities, notably as chairman of the N.A.A.C.P., died on…

  • I’m a Mizrahi Jew. Do I Count as a Person of Color? Forward 2015-08-10 Sigal Samuel, Deputy Digital Media Editor Eye of the Beholder: Sigal Samuel has been considered white and non-white, depending on who’s looking. (Image: Martyna Starosta) Am I a person of color? You’d think there would be a straightforward answer to a…

  • Tony Robinson’s mother files civil rights lawsuit over fatal police shooting of son The Guardian 2015-08-13 Zoe Sullivan Andrea Irwin alleges officer Matt Kenny violated 14th amendment equal protection rights and fourth amendment right against unreasonable searches The mother of a biracial man killed by a white police officer in Madison, Wisconsin, has filed a…