Category: United States

  • At a time when the mere sight of Petula Clark touching Harry Belafonte’s arm held the potential to upset delicate sensibilities, the half-human, half-Vulcan character Mr. Spock embodied an identity rarely acknowledged, much less seen, on television: a mixed-race person.

  • Muscogee Creek Indian Freedmen Band 2015 Conference Muscogee Creek Indian Freedmen Band Moore, Oklahoma 2015-02-17 Rhonda Kay Grayson For Immediate Release Muscogee Creek Indian Freedmen Band P.O. Box 6366 Moore, OK, 73135 The Muscogee Creek Indian Freedmen Band is thrilled to announce its 2015 conference. The conference theme is “Africans and Indians: Eating from the same…

  • Review: ‘An Octoroon,’ a Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Comedy About Race The New York Times 2015-02-26 Ben Brantley, Chief Theater Critic Walking on a stage covered with cotton balls is a tricky business. It’s all too easy to slip into a pratfall. And forget about running or dancing or hopping like a bunny, as the characters sometimes…

  • The Joshua Generation The New Yorker 2008-11-17 David Remnick, Editor Race and the campaign of Barack Obama. Barack Obama could not run his campaign for the Presidency based on political accomplishment or on the heroic service of his youth. His record was too slight. His Democratic and Republican opponents were right: he ran largely on…

  • Zélie Asava of Irish-Kenyan parentage with English citizenship, is a lecturer in film and media theory and national cinemas at Dundalk IT and University College Dublin. She explores mixed-raced identities and its representation in Irish, U.S. and French cinemas.

  • Census categories for mixed race and mixed ethnicity: impacts on data collection and analysis in the US, UK and NZ Public Health Published online: 2015-02-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2014.12.017 S. A. Valles, Assistant Professor Lyman Briggs College and Department of Philosophy Michigan State University R. S. Bhopal, Bruce and John Usher Professor of Public Health;Honorary Consultant in…

  • ‘I Didn’t Want to Be a Black Man’ Ebony 2014-08-27 Ben O’Keefe A biracial man on why he came to accept his Black identity My name is Ben O’Keefe and I am a “Halfrican American.” It’s a term that one of my fellow mixed-race friends, Adriana, and I have affectionately come to define ourselves by.…

  • One Drop of Love at Iowa State University Great Hall, Memorial Union Iowa State University Ames, Iowa 2015-03-01, 19:00 CST (Local Time), Doors open at 18:30 One Drop of Love produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, performed by Fanshen Cox Digiovanni is a multimedia solo show that tells the story of how the notion…

  • I Became So Exhausted With Proving My South Asian Identity That I Started to Ignore It xoJane 2015-02-24 Anjali Patel The rules of miscegenation were set long before I came along, and my self-determination to “be myself” was not going to change it. A couple of years ago, I was at a rooftop party in…

  • The writer is White. Her husband is Black. And there are many people who feel entitled to accost the couple with unsolicited opinions about their biracial son.