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  • One-sided Biracial TV Families– Why Are So Many Asian Moms MIA?

    One-sided Biracial TV Families– Why Are So Many Asian Moms MIA? AsAmNews 2015-08-05 Laylita Day I started to notice a disturbing trend among certain TV shows. Each one featured a biracial character, specifically a woman who had an Asian mom and White dad. The disturbing part of this was the fact that none of the…

  • Book Review: Articulate While Black: Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S.

    Book Review: Articulate While Black: Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S. Jennifer L. Ruef Stanford University, Palo Alto, California Urban Education Volume 50, Number 6 (September 2015) pages 776-783 DOI: 10.1177/0042085913519339 H. S. Alim, G. Smitherman (2012). Articulate While Black: Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S. New York, NY: Oxford University…

  • Greason: Quiet reflections on the impact of race perception

    Greason: Quiet reflections on the impact of race perception The Times-Herald Norristown, Pennsylvania 2015-08-05 Walter Greason, Executive Director International Center for Metropolitan Growth Imagine looking white, but not being white. It is an experience that exposes the limitations of racial perception, while reinforcing its power. As a child, the experience unfolds through the whispers of…

  • Interview with Moogega Cooper

    A lot of people when they look at me and when I reveal to them that I’m half Korean, they say that they don’t see it at all and think that I’m black. I get a lot of people that say that and they try to impose their own classification of my identity and I…

  • President Obama’s Racial Renaissance

    President Obama’s Racial Renaissance The New York Times 2015-08-01 Michael Eric Dyson, Professor of Sociology Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Toyin Odutola We finally have the president we thought we elected: one who talks directly and forcefully about race and human rights. When President Obama took the podium at the annual convention of the N.A.A.C.P. in…

  • Pocahontas’ tribe, the Pamunkey of Virginia, finally recognized by U.S.

    Pocahontas’ tribe, the Pamunkey of Virginia, finally recognized by U.S. The Los Angeles Times 2015-08-02 Noah Bierman Mikayla Deacy, 4, swims with her dog Dakota in the Pamunkey River. As a member of the tribe, Mikayla will be eligible for scholarships and other benefits now that the Pamunkey have received federal recognition. (Carolyn Cole /…

  • Multiracial marriages are dispersing across the country

    Multiracial marriages are dispersing across the country The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. 2015-06-18 William H. Frey, Senior Fellow As I discuss in my book, “Diversity Explosion,” the geographic dispersion of minority populations from traditional melting-pot regions to the rest of the country sets the stage for the dispersion of multiracial marriages as well. To be…

  • An Intellectual History of Black Women

    An Intellectual History of Black Women Katharine Cornell Theater 54 Spring Street Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts 02568 Sunday, 2015-08-02, 19:00-20:30 EDT (Local Time) Moderator: Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies Harvard University Discussants: Farah J. Griffin, William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and…

  • Moogega Cooper: The JPL’s Space Engineer

    Moogega Cooper: The JPL’s Space Engineer LA Weekly Los Angeles, California 2014-05-14 Sophia Kercher Somewhere on Mars, the initials of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, J-P-L, are written in Morse code spanning hundreds of meters across the red planet. It’s this kind of detail that thrills JPL scientist Moogega Cooper – especially since JPL, considered NASA’s…

  • This Instagram Project is Giving a Voice to the “Blaxican” Experience

    This Instagram Project is Giving a Voice to the “Blaxican” Experience Remezcla 2015-07-28 Yara Simón The history of race in the United States is often told in terms of black and white, a binary that leaves many out of the equation. “Blaxican” researcher Walter Thompson-Hernandez is trying to expand the conversation, with a project that…