Category: United States

  • Book reading with SHARON H. CHANG: Raising Mixed Race Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience 719 South King Street Seattle, Washington 98104 Thursday, 2016-06-02, 18:00-20:00 PDT (Local Time) Sharon H. Chang has worked with young children and families for over a decade. She is a scholar and activist who focuses on racism,…

  • Pete Souza: photographing the real Barack Obama The Guardian 2016-05-29 Jonathan Jones President Barack Obama fist-bumps custodian Lawrence Lipscomb in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. Photograph: Pete Souza/The White House Over two historic terms, official White House photographer Pete Souza has chronicled the most intimate, candid and comical moments of Barack Obama’s presidency It was…

  • Not-So-Solid South Triton University of California, San Diego Alumni 2016-05-05 Sherilyn Reus ’16 Historian Victoria Bynum, M.A. ’79, Ph.D. ’87, is a Civil War myth-buster. Folklore is deeply embedded in American culture—whether told at the dinner table, around the campfire or just before bedtime, tall tales and legends about the nation’s history have the power…

  • Understanding the Stressors and Types of Discrimination That Can Affect Multiracial Individuals: Things to Address and Avoid in Psychotherapy Practice Psychotherapy Bulletin Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy Volume 50, Issue 2 (2015) pages 56-60 Astrea Greig, PsyD As the multiracial population is vastly growing in the United States (Humes, Jones, & Ramirez, 2011), it…

  • ‘A Change of Heart’: Racial Politics, Scientific Metaphor and Coverage of 1968 Interracial Heart Transplants in the African American Press Social History of Medicine Published online: 2016-05-26 DOI: 10.1093/shm/hkw052 Maya Overby Koretzky Johns Hopkins Institute for the History of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland This paper explores the African American response to an interracial heart transplant in…

  • Inspired By — A Q&A With Actor-Writer-Producer Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni Goldstar Pulse 2016-05-27 Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni is creator and star of One Drop of Love, a solo show co-produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. She’s a spokesperson on the arts and racial identity, a board member of Mixed Roots Stories, and…

  • Casting Diverse Multigenerational Families ZAN Casting 195 Chrystie Street, #603B New York, New York 10002 2016-05-25 Leah Mara, Casting Associate (Telephone: 212.533.0502) ZAN Casting, a casting agency in New York is working on a digital short for Tylenol, and looking for Modern Diverse Families to share their stories. #HowWeFamily. Overall, we are looking for real…

  • New Orleans II: the Halloween Ghost Post The History Tourist 2015-10-31 Susan Kalasunas My first chance to encounter a ghost at the Bourbon Orleans Hotel in New Orleans came not long after check-in. “Can we see the ballroom?” I asked the receptionist. “Yes. We don’t have an event tonight, but the doors should be open.…

  • Staking Claim: Settler Colonialism and Racialization in Hawai’i University of Arizona Press 2016-05-28 232 pages 6.00 x 9.00 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8165-0251-6 Judy Rohrer, Director of the Institute for Citizenship and Social Responsibility (ICSR); Assistant Professor in Diversity and Community Studies University of Western Kentucky, Bowling Green, Kentucky Exploring how racialization is employed to further colonialism…

  • Just as World War I introduced Americans to Europe, making an indelible impression on thousands of farmboys who were changed forever “after they saw Paree,” so World War II was the beginning of America’s encounter with the East – an encounter whose effects are still being felt and absorbed. No single place was more symbolic…