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  • ‘Mexican,’ ‘Hispanic,’ ‘Latin American’ top list of race write-ins on the 2010 census

    ‘Mexican,’ ‘Hispanic,’ ‘Latin American’ top list of race write-ins on the 2010 census Pew Research Center 2014-04-04 Mark Hugo Lopez, Director of Hispanic Research Jens Manuel Krogstad, Writer/Editor Pew Research Center’s Hispanic Trends Project What is your race? The U.S. Census Bureau asks this question of every U.S. household, but the menu of options offered…

  • Transpacific Mixed-Race Literatures: A Reading and Dialogue (Sawyer Seminar IX)

    Transpacific Mixed-Race Literatures: A Reading and Dialogue (Sawyer Seminar IX) University of Southern California, University Park Campus Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) Room 351/352 Sunday, 2014-04-06, 10:00-17:00 PDT (Local Time) How do Transpacific mixed-race authors inscribe and represent their heritage in their artistic representations? Are there common tropes or literary forms that inform these novels?…

  • Black & Jewish in New Orleans

    Black & Jewish in New Orleans BrassyBrown.com: where women of color are first in line 2014-04-01 Marian Moore, Guest Blogger December of 2013 found me in San Diego, California this year, attending the fiftieth Biennial of the Women of Reform Judaism. Although, this was the organization’s centennial, WRJ actually began at my synagogue in 1900 as…

  • The Robbins Family at War with Marvin Jones

    The Robbins Family at War with Marvin Jones Research at the National Archives and Beyond BlogTalk Radio Thursday, 2014-04-03, 21:00 EDT, (Friday, 2014-04-04, 01:00Z) Bernice Bennett, Host Marvin T. Jones, Executive Director Chowan Discovery Group “The Robbins Family at War” – it is about a Native American family who lived through colonial wars of the…

  • David Walker & Color of Film + In The Mix doc on mixed-race artists

    David Walker & Color of Film + In The Mix doc on mixed-race artists Stage & Studio KMZE 107.1 FM Gresham, Oregon 2014-03-25 Dmae Roberts, Host [At 00:28:46] “In The Mix: Conversations with Artists…Between Races” by Dmae Roberts is a radio exploration of Mixed Race with novelist Lisa See, Playwright Heather Raffo, Writer/Conceptual Artist damali ayo, Playwright…

  • Register Now for the 3rd Biennial Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference “Global Mixed Race” at DePaul University in Chicago

    Register Now for the 3rd Biennial Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference “Global Mixed Race” at DePaul University in Chicago Critical Mixed Race Studies 2014-04-02 Mark your calendars, book your flights and hotels, and be sure to register (it’s free!) for the 3rd biennial Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference “Global Mixed Race” November 13-15, 2014 at…

  • “Hiding in Plain Sight: Mixed Blood Families and Race in the 19th-Century United States West”

    “Hiding in Plain Sight: Mixed Blood Families and Race in the 19th-Century United States West” Public Radio Tulsa Studio Tulsa Tulsa, Oklahoma 2014-03-25 Rich Fisher, General Manager & Host Our guest on ST is Anne Hyde, the William R. Hochman Professor of History at Colorado College. She’ll be giving the 2014 H.G. Barnard Distinguished Lecture,…

  • Where Did “Hispanics” Come From?

    Where Did “Hispanics” Come From? Sociological Images: Inspiring Sociological Imaginations Everywhere 2014-03-29 Claude S. Fischer, Professor of Sociology University of California, Berkeley One may well wonder where the term “Hispanic,” and for that matter, “Latino,” came from. The press and pundits are all abuzz about the Hispanic vote, Hispanic organizations, and Hispanic cultural influences. Back…

  • Making Hispanics: How Activists, Bureaucrats, and Media Constructed a New American

    How did Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, and Cubans become known as “Hispanics” and “Latinos” in the United States? How did several distinct cultures and nationalities become portrayed as one? Cristina Mora answers both these questions and details the scope of this phenomenon in “Making Hispanics.”

  • Empires, Nations, and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860

    Empires, Nations, and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860 University of Nebraska Press 2011 648 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8032-2405-6 Anne F. Hyde, William R. Hochman Professor of History Colorado College Winner of the 2012 Bancroft Prize 2012 Pulitzer Prize Finalist To most people living in the West, the Louisiana Purchase made little…