Category: United States

  • Mixed-Race Youth and Schooling: The Fifth Minority Routledge 2016-02-26 256 pages 10 B/W Illus. Hardback ISBN: 978-1-13-802191-4 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-13-802193-8 Sandra Winn Tutwiler, Professor of Education Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas This timely, in-depth examination of the educational experiences and needs of mixed-race children (“the fifth minority”) focuses on the four contexts that primarily influence learning…

  • Black Lives Matter Activist Says Obama Meeting Was Positive TIME 2016-02-18 Maya Rhodan WASHINGTON, DC – FEBRUARY 18: U.S. President Barack Obama (C) speaks about race relations while flanked by Brittany Packnett (L), and Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), in the Roosevelt Room at the White House, February 18, 2016 in Washington, DC. President Obama met…

  • Meet Team One Drop: Ben Affleck Fanshen Cox 2016-02-10 One Drop of Love is a multimedia one-woman show exploring the intersections of race, class and gender – and in search of justice and love. The show is written and performed by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni. For more information, click here.

  • The Complexity of Immigrant Generations: Implications for Assessing the Socioeconomic Integration of Hispanics and Asians National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts Working Paper No. 21982 February 2016 58 pages DOI: 10.3386/w21982 Brian Duncan, Professor of Economics University of Colorado Stephen J. Trejo, Professor of Economics University of Texas, Austin Because of data limitations, virtually…

  • Mixed marriages are changing the way we think about our race The Washington Post 2016-02-17 Jeff Guo For all the talk about immigrants refusing to embrace American ways — a defining controversy of this GOP presidential race — the evidence has been scant. The National Academies of Sciences deflated most of the myths in a…

  • No, Bill Clinton, we’re not ‘all mixed race’ – and you of all people should know that The Independent London, United Kingdom 2016-02-15 Remi Joseph Salisbury If you’re claiming you’re ‘colour-blind’, you’re not being progressive. You’re part of the problem In a seemingly fear-fuelled attempt to halt the rapidly growing popularity of Bernie Sanders, Hillary…

  • Rising Sun, “Rising Soul”: Mixed Race Japanese of African Descent University of Southern California, University Park Campus Los Angeles, California Montgomery Ross Fisher Building (MRF) Montgomery Ross Fisher Auditorium (340) Friday, 2016-02-26, 14:00-17:00 PST (Local Time) Rising Soul is a documentary film that explores the question, “What is the impact of Afro-Japanese offspring and their…

  • Let Ohio Vote First The New York Times 2016-02-16 Emma Roller We, as voters and election-obsessed bystanders, made it past the first two contests in this eons-long presidential primary, but seven candidates weren’t so lucky. The winnowed-down field has now moved on to the warmer vote-seeking climes of Nevada and South Carolina. Before moving on…

  • In an increasingly multiracial America, identity is a fluid thing 89.3 KPCC: Southern California Public Radio Pasadena, California 2016-02-16 Leslie Berestein Rojas, Immigration and Emerging Communities Reporter If there’s any part of town that’s solidly Latino, it’s where Walter Thompson Hernandez grew up, in Huntington Park. The city, on the southeast fringe of Los Angeles,…

  • Ordinary Yet Infamous: Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso Not Even Past: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” William Faulkner 2016-02-01 Kali Nicole Gross, Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies University of Texas, Austin Adapted from Kali Nicole Gross’s new book: Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso: A…