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  • The Rise and Rise of Misty Copeland

    The Rise and Rise of Misty Copeland The Year in Style 2015 The New York Times 2015-12-18 Ruth La Ferla This year, Misty Copeland’s fame rose from her performances in ballet, on Broadway and in commercials. Credit Bon Duke for The New York Times, taken at Steps on Broadway in New York City. Captivating a…

  • Putting racism, white supremacy, and white privilege in context

    Putting racism, white supremacy, and white privilege in context Chimes: The official student newspaper of Calvin College Grand Rapids, Michigan 2015-12-11 Joseph Kuilema, Professor of Social Work A group of students went to write positive messages on snow on cars following the racist comments that were written. Photo Credit Katelyn Bosch On Sunday, Nov. 22,…

  • Play means to help people of mixed race find sense of belonging

    Play means to help people of mixed race find sense of belonging MPR News Minnesota Public Radio 2015-12-15 Marianne Combs, Arts and Culture Reporter “Purple Cloud,” written by Jessica Huang and directed by Randy Reyes, looks at three generations of hapa, or mixed race, Chinese immigrants as they search to find a place where they…

  • Rethinking Multiracial Formation in the United States: Toward an Intersectional Approach

    Rethinking Multiracial Formation in the United States: Toward an Intersectional Approach Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Volume 2, Number 1 (January 2016) pages 27-41 DOI: 10.1177/2332649215591864 Celeste Vaughan Curington Department of Sociology University of Massachusetts, Amherst This article forwards an integrative multiracial formation perspective that analyzes race, class, and gender as complex social systems, predicated…

  • Rachel Dolezal: ‘I wasn’t identifying as black to upset people. I was being me’

    Rachel Dolezal: ‘I wasn’t identifying as black to upset people. I was being me’ The Guardian 2015-12-13 Chris McGreal, Senior Writer Guardian US Rachel Dolezal at her home in Spokane. Photograph: Annie Kuster for the Guardian She became a global hate figure this year when she was outed as a ‘race faker’. Here, she talks…

  • Choose Your Own Identity

    Choose Your Own Identity The New York Times Magazine 2015-12-14 Bonnie Tsui A series of portraits from “The Hapa Project” by the artist Kip Fulbeck. Kip Fulbeck/The Hapa Project I never realized how little I understood race until I tried to explain it to my 5-year-old son. Our family story doesn’t seem too complicated: I’m…

  • First Baptist unveils historic marker

    First Baptist unveils historic marker The Tennesseean Nashville, Tennessee 2015-12-09 Jennifer Easton If people of faith go to First Baptist Church on East Winchester Street looking for a sign, they’ll find it. Sumner County’s oldest known African-American church celebrated another milestone Dec. 6 with the dedication of a historic marker commemorating the 150-year-old church’s early…

  • Ghost Stories: Allyson Hobbs uncovers the fascinating history of racial passing in the United States

    Ghost Stories: Allyson Hobbs uncovers the fascinating history of racial passing in the United States Chapter 16: a community of Tennessee writers, readers & passersby 2015-12-11 Aram Goudsouzian, Professor of History University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee In A Chosen Exile, Allyson Hobbs analyzes how and why black people passed as white throughout American history. An…

  • Raising Mixed Race: Multiracial Asian Children in a Post-Racial World

    Research continues to uncover early childhood as a crucial time when we set the stage for who we will become. In the last decade, we have also seen a sudden massive shift in America’s racial makeup with the majority of the current under-5 age population being children of color. Asian and multiracial are the fastest…

  • Book Talk – A Chosen Exile: The History of Racial Passing

    Book Talk – A Chosen Exile: The History of Racial Passing National Civil Rights Museum: At the Lorraine Motel 450 Mulberry Street Memphis, Tennesee 38103 2015-12-17, 18:00-20:00 CST (Local Time) Allyson Hobbs, a professor of History at Stanford University, has written a remarkable book entitled [A] Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in America.…