Category: United States

  • It’s her Ferguson — and it’s not all black and white Cable News Network (CNN) 2014-11-17 Moni Basu Ferguson, Missouri (CNN) — Stefannie Wheat carried a yard sign all the way from her Midwestern town to the nation’s capital. She visited the White House and tucked it into the guard rail. “I Love Ferguson,” it…

  • Reflections on the 2014 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference Multiracial Asian Families: thinking about race, families, children, and the intersection of mixed ID/Asian 2014-11-16 Sharon H. Chang Ah. Where do I begin. I’m sitting on a plane waiting to takeoff to Seattle (correction, taking off) thinking on my last 3 days in Chicago at the…

  • A lawsuit is being waged against the “wrongful birth” of a black child.

  • Q&A with Dorothy Roberts Penn Current: News, ideas and conversations from the University of Pennsylvania 2014-10-16 Greg Johnson, Managing Editor When Dorothy Roberts was 3 months old, she moved with her parents from Chicago to Liberia, where her mother, Iris, had worked as a young woman after leaving Jamaica. It was the first of Dorothy’s…

  • To Tell the Truth: Alumna’s new film about family secrets to show at Boston film festival (video) Harvard Law Today Alumni Focus 2014-11-12 Lewis Rice Lacey Schwartz ’03 will return to Cambridge this weekend to speak about her new documentary “Little White Lie,” showing Saturday Nov. 15 and 17 as part of the Boston Jewish…

  • Little White Lie at DOC NYC DOC NYC 2014-11-13 through 2014-11-20 New York, New York Showtimes IFC Center 323 Avenue of the Americas New York, New York 10014 (212) 924-7771 Sunday, 2014-11-16, 19:00 EST (Local Time) Wednesday, 2014-11-19, 10:45 EST (Local Time) Official Site: http://www.littlewhiteliethefilm.com Producer: Lacey Schwartz, Mehret Mandefro Cinematographer: James Adolphus Editor: Toby…

  • “Western Zombies and Their Killers: Exceptionalism, the Empty West, and Mixed Race Families” a lecture by Dr. Anne Hyde Colorado State University Cherokee Park Ballroom, Lory Student Center Fort Collins, Colorado 2014-12-04, 16:30-18:30 MST (Local Time) Please join us for a public lecture and book signing/reception by Dr. Anne Hyde, William R. Hochman Professor of…

  • ‘Fourteen Frames’ aims to create discussions on race, identity The Daily Northwestern Evanston, Illinois 2014-11-11 Shane McKeon, Reporter A group within Global Engagement Summit launched a Tumblr page and physical gallery profiling 14 Northwestern students and their experiences with race and identity. “Fourteen Frames” opened at Norris University Center on Nov. 5, the same day…

  • ‘What are you, anyway?’: Why I loved growing up in a mixed-race family The Digital Universe Brigham Young University Provo, Utah 2014-11-01 Angela Marler When I was a kid it was completely normal for me to spend one weekend with my mom’s side of the family, roasting a goat in a pit in the driveway,…

  • ‘Global Mixed Race’ conference welcomes scholars, filmmakers to Chicago DePaul University News Release 2014-10-29 DePaul University faculty Laura Kina and Camilla Fojas cofounded the Critical Mixed Race Studies conference and will deliver opening remarks at this year’s event. (Photo by Jamie Moncrief Rebecca King-O’Riain, senior lecturer at the National University Ireland Maynooth, will give a…