Mixed Race Studies

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  • Fr. Virgilio Elizondo Takes His Own Life

    Fr. Virgilio Elizondo Takes His Own Life The Rivard Report: Urban. Independent. All About San Antonio. San Antonio, Texas 2016-03-14 Robert Rivard, Director Fr. Virgilio Elizondo, one of San Antonio’s most accomplished and beloved Catholic priests whose work brought him recognition in Latin America and Europe and an esteemed faculty position at the University of…

  • Allyson Hobbs, A Chosen Exile, in conversation with Helena Brantley

    Allyson Hobbs, A Chosen Exile, in conversation with Helena Brantley Kepler’s Books 1010 El Camino Real Menlo Park, California 94025 Tuesday, 2016-03-15, 19:30 PDT (Local Time) Presented by Peninsula Arts & Letters and Kepler’s Books Join us for a look back at the history of racial passing, and a topical discussion of race and identity…

  • The Brain Likes Categories. Where Should It Put Mixed-Race People?

    The Brain Likes Categories. Where Should It Put Mixed-Race People? Shots: Health News from NPR National Public Radio 2016-03-15 Katherine Du Humans like to place things in categories and can struggle when things can’t easily be categorized. That also applies to people, a study finds, and the brain’s visual biases may play a role in…

  • A Perceptual Pathway to Bias: Interracial Exposure Reduces Abrupt Shifts in Real-Time Race Perception That Predict Mixed-Race Bias

    In two national samples, we examined the influence of interracial exposure in one’s local environment on the dynamic process underlying race perception and its evaluative consequences.

  • Seeking Participants: Experiences of People who have Biological Parents of Different Racial Backgrounds

    Seeking Participants: Experiences of People who have Biological Parents of Different Racial Backgrounds University at Albany, State University of New York 2016-03-14 Michael Gale Experiences of racism have been found to be inversely linked to health and mental health among racial minority individuals, including those who identify as biracial or multiracial. Mixed race theorists have…

  • What Would It Mean To Have A ‘Hapa’ Bachelorette?

    What Would It Mean To Have A ‘Hapa’ Bachelorette? Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2016-03-13 Akemi Johnson On a recent episode of The Bachelor, the ABC dating reality show that ends its 20th season Monday night, contestant Caila Quinn brings Ben Higgins home to meet her interracial family. “Have…

  • Debunking the ‘Half-Breed’ Label

    Debunking the ‘Half-Breed’ Label Indian Country Today Media Network 2015-07-01 Micah Armstrong Blackfoot Indian of the Siksika Nation Half-breed, mixed-blood, metis… These words are more than familiar to us who are not full-blooded American Indians. And by those who are not full-blooded, I do not speak of those who claim a “great-great-great grandmother who was…

  • Read the Full Transcript of TIME’s Conversation With President Obama and Misty Copeland

    Read the Full Transcript of TIME’s Conversation With President Obama and Misty Copeland TIME 2016-03-14 Maya Rhodan, White House Reporter The first African American president and the first black principal dancer at the American Ballet Theater have much more in common than their success. Both have risen to the pinnacle of institutions that have historically…

  • Beautiful White Girlhood?: Daisy Buchanan in Nella Larsen’s Passing

    Beautiful White Girlhood?: Daisy Buchanan in Nella Larsen’s Passing African American Review Volume 47, Number 1, Spring 2014 pages 37-49 Sinéad Moynihan, Lecturer in English University of Exeter This article expands recent scholarship on race in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and intertextuality in Nella Larsen’s Passing by arguing that the latter is a…

  • Story Of A Criminal

    Story Of A Criminal The Indianapolis Journal Indianapolis, Indiana Sunday, 1894-06-17 page 16, columns 1-2 How Green Goods Men Are Protected by Gotham Police. Tale of Iniquity Unequaled In the Annals of Municipal Corruption—Testimony of George Appo. NEW YORK, June 16. During the past week the Lexow committee opened up an entirely new line of…