Category: United States

  • PHOTOS: 3rd Annual What Are You? Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations Brooklyn Historical Society Fall 2013 Nayantara Sen, CBBG Project Associate All photos by Willie Davis for Brooklyn Historical Society, 2013 Steven Riley, Founder of MixedRaceStudies.org gives a few remarks before introducing one of the panels. A participant in the packed the house in Brooklyn Historical…

  • “We Have Created Our Own Meaning for Hapa Identity”: The Mobilization of Self-Proclaimed Hapas within Institutions of Higher Education Amerasia Journal Volume 35, Number 2 (2009) pages 191-213 Patricia E. Literte, Associate Professor of Sociology California State University, Fullerton This article examines Hapa student organizations on two university campuses—one public and one private. Drawing on…

  • Beyond “Code-switching:” The Racial Capital of Black/White Biracial Americans University of Connecticut 2013 170 pages Chandra D. L. Waring A Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Social science has examined the experiences of the burgeoning bi/multiracial population within the scope of three core areas: racial identity…

  • Cousins, Across the Color Line The New York Times 2014-01-22 Tess Taylor EL CERRITO, Calif. — I learned about her through the comments section of an article in Publisher’s Weekly. I had recently published a book of poems crafted out of family stories, and it had been written up, along with a brief interview. In…

  • The racial identity of the offspring of Latino intermarriage: A case of racial identity and census categories Fordham University, Bronx, New York May 2013 241 pages Michael Hajime Miyawaki Since 1970, rates of Latino intermarriage and the number of “part-Latinos” have been on the rise in the United States. Among newlyweds, Latino/non-Latino couples account for…

  • Racial Malleability and Authenticity in Multiracial Well-Being University of Miami 134 pages May 2014 Lauren E. Smith A DISSERTATION Submitted to the Faculty of the University of Miami in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy After relatively stable rates of interracial marriage, the numbers of unions across race markedly…

  • The Life And Times Of Adella Hunt Logan: Educator, Mother, Wife, And Suffragist, 1863-1915 Florida State University November 2012 Daria Willis Adella Hunt Logan was a woman trapped between two worlds. She was a mulatto who suffered from the pressures and injustices of Jim Crow America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The…

  • Dr. Linda Isako Angst discusses Hapa Identity APA Compass KBOO FM Community Radio Portland, Oregon 2012-02-03 Anna Preble, Host Linda Isako Angst, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Oxford College of Emory University, Oxford, Georgia Dr. Linda Isako Angst, educator and anthropologist, and discusses ethnic identity, racially mixed identity, and stereotypes during a Hapa diversity workshop…

  • “Purple Cloud” by Jessica Huang Mu Preforming Arts presents: New Eyes Festival Staged readings of the newest script from the Asian American theater canon 2014-01-23 through 2014-01-26 The Playwrights’ Center 2301 East Franklin Avenue Minneapolis, Minnesota 55406 “Purple Cloud” by Jessica Huang Friday, 2014-01-24, 19:30 CST (Local Time) Weaving together the stories of Lee, a…

  • Going the Distance: On and off the road with Barack Obama. The New Yorker 2014-01-27 David Remnick, Editor Obama’s Presidency is on the clock. Hard as it has been to pass legislation, the coming year is a marker, the final interval before the fight for succession becomes politically all-consuming. On the Sunday afternoon before Thanksgiving,…