Category: United States

  • Almost Free: A Story about Family and Race in Antebellum Virginia by Eva Sheppard Wolf (reweiw) [Watkins] Journal of the Early Republic Volume 33, Number 3, Fall 2013 pages 575-577 DOI: 10.1353/jer.2013.0062 Andrea S. Watkins Wolf, Eva Sheppard, Almost Free: A Story about Family and Race in Antebellum Virginia (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012)…

  • Mixed Remixed Festival Reveals 2014 Schedule Mixed Remixed Festival March 2014 Heidi Durrow (Los Angeles, CA) The Mixed Remixed Festival will take place at the Japanese American National Museum in downtown Los Angeles (100 N. Central Avenue), June 14, 2014. The Festival celebrates stories of the Mixed experience and stories of multiracial Americans, the fastest…

  • “Loving Day” with founder, Ken Tanabe A.C.T.O.R. (A Continuing Talk on Race) Busboys and Poets Langston Room 14 & V, N.W. Washington, D.C. 2014-06-01, 17:00-19:00 EDT (Local Time) This month A.C.T.O.R. presents a celebration and discussion about “Loving Day” with founder, Ken Tanabe. Join us for an enlightening discussion on multiracial identity and interracial relationships!…

  • A Verboten Topic: Elliot Rodger, ‘Mixed Race’ Identity, Internalized Racism, and Mental Health We Are Respectable Negroes: Happy Non-Threatening Coloured Folks, Even the Age of Obama Wednesday, 2014-05-28 Chauncey Devega, Editor and Founder The 24/7 news cycle is not interested in finding the truth about a given matter, and then subsequently offering up useful information…

  • Understanding Hapa Identity: More Research, Not Manifestos AAPI Voices: Amplifying the voices of Asian Pacific America. 2014-05-29 Danielle Lemi, Guest Columnist and doctoral student University of California, Riverside As more details about the tragic events at UC Santa Barbara come to light, so too have details about Elliot Rodger, particularly with respect to his racial…

  • Future Children Campus MoveFest 2014-05-03 Emily Eaglin—Captain, Director, Writer, Producer, Editor University of Maryland, Baltimore County A comedy/documentary about race relations especially pertaining to racial micro-aggressions of those who are more than one race. Created by Emily Eaglin’s Crew at University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 2014 as part of Campus MovieFest, the world’s largest…

  • Multiracial people are the fastest growing demographic in the U.S., but for these Americans, race isn’t a black and white issue. HuffPost Live explores the experience of multiracial Americans and how outward appearance shapes their identities.

  • Herb Jeffries, a.k.a. ‘Bronze Buckaroo’ of Song and Screen, Dies at 100 (or So) The New York Times 2014-05-26 William Yardley Sheelagh McNeill contributed research. Herb Jeffries, who sang with Duke Ellington and starred in early black westerns as a singing cowboy known as “the Bronze Buckaroo” — a nickname that evoked his malleable racial…

  •   “MUTT” at Impact Theatre—laughs, topic, and a great cast make it worth it Examinier.com 2014-05-12 John A. McMullen II Oakland Theater Examiner Sometimes a mediocre play jumps to life when you assemble an extraordinary cast with a primo director. Christopher Chen’s “MUTT” at Impact Theatre means to be sardonic and poignant. Some of the…

  • Kaneesha Parsard on (1)ne Drop and the Multiplicity of Blackness Climbing Vines: A Collection of Short Stories 2014-05-01 Janday Wilson When you think of blackness what do you see? Dr. Yaba Blay’s multiplatform project (1)ne Drop and book (1)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race complicate the answers to that question. In the book, visually…