Mixed Race Studies

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  • “We Called That Touch”

    “We Called That Touch” Boston Review 2016-03-28 Ed Pavlić, Professor of English and Creative Writing University of Georgia Race and the Intimate Tangle of American Experience It might seem to you that I am white. Then again, depending upon how and where we meet—and upon things in your life I know nothing about—it might seem…

  • On Jerusalem Walls, Artist Memorializes Hebrew Israelite Rabbi from Harlem

    On Jerusalem Walls, Artist Memorializes Hebrew Israelite Rabbi from Harlem The Assimilator: Intermarrying high and low culture Forward 2016-03-31 Sam Kestenbaum, Staff Writer Wikicommons / Solomon Souza / YouTube When Rabbi Mordecai Herman would visit the Lower East Side of the 1920s, then teeming with Jewish immigrants from Europe, he cut an intriguing figure. He…

  • Construction and initial validation of the Multiracial Experiences Measure (MEM)

    Construction and initial validation of the Multiracial Experiences Measure (MEM) Journal of Counseling Psychology Volume 63, Issue 2, March 2016 pages 198-209 DOI: 10.1037/cou0000117 Hyung Chol Yoo, Associate Professor of Asian Pacific American Studies Arizona State University Kelly F. Jackson, Associate Professor of Social Work Arizona State University, Phoenix Rudy P. Guevarra Jr., Asian Pacific…

  • Study finds mixed-race individuals are fastest-growing demographic group, most discriminated against

    Study finds mixed-race individuals are fastest-growing demographic group, most discriminated against The Daily Targum: Serving the Rutgers community since 1869. Independent since 1980. 2016-03-31 Samantha Karas The fastest growing racial group in the United States is mixed-race individuals, but they are also the ones experiencing increasing amounts of prejudice from white people, according to a…

  • ‘A black president, yay’: 106-year-old finally meets the Obamas, dances like a schoolgirl

    ‘A black president, yay’: 106-year-old finally meets the Obamas, dances like a schoolgirl The Washington Post 2016-02-22 Michael E. Miller, Morning Mix Reporter Virginia McLaurin’s life isn’t easy. Last winter, she battled bedbugs in her D.C. apartment. This year, snowstorm “Snowzilla” trapped her inside for several days. She also happens to be almost 107 years…

  • Where We Live Affects Our Bias Against Mixed-Race Individuals, Psychology Study Finds

    Whites living in areas where they are less exposed to those of other races have a harder time categorizing mixed-race individuals than do Whites with greater interracial exposure, a condition that is associated with greater prejudice against mixed-race individuals, a new experimental study shows.

  • A conversation on what it means to be mixed race

    A conversation on what it means to be mixed race New Day Northwest KING TV 5 Seattle, Washington 2016-03-30 Margaret Larson, Host The last Census report taken in 2010 showed that the population identifying themselves as multi-racial grew by 32% over the census in 2000. One local author is raising awareness with a new book…

  • Who’s the most photographed American man of the 19th Century? HINT: It’s not Lincoln…

    Who’s the most photographed American man of the 19th Century? HINT: It’s not Lincoln… The Washington Post 2016-03-15 Jennifer Beeson Gregory Born into slavery in 1818, Frederick Douglass would become one of the most well-known abolitionists, orators, and writers of his time. He understood and heralded not only the power of the written or spoken…

  • The Coiled Serpent: An Interview with the Poetry Anthology’s Creators

    The Coiled Serpent: An Interview with the Poetry Anthology’s Creators La Bloga Monday, 2016-03-28 Daniel A. Olivas As already discussed here on La Bloga in a lovely review by Olga García Echeverría, Tía Chucha Press will publish this week a landmark poetry anthology, The Coiled Serpent: Poets Arising from the Cultural Quakes and Shifts of…

  • Voices of Diversity Presents Presents “One Drop of Love” at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center

    Voices of Diversity Presents “One Drop of Love” at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center Jeanné Wagner Theatre Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center 138 West 300 South Salt Lake City, Utah 84101 Tuesday, 2016-03-29, 18:00-20:00 MDT (Local Time) 10th Anniversary of the Social Justice Lecture Series: Allies for Equity Presented by Voices of Diversity of The University of…