Mixed Race Studies

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  • ‘Evoking The Mulatto’ In Mixed-Race America

    ‘Evoking The Mulatto’ In Mixed-Race America On Point with Tom Ashbrook WBUR 90.9 FM Boston, Massachusetts 2015-11-23 Tom Ashbrook, Host Guests: Lindsay Catherine Harris, multimedia artist and creator of “Evoking the Mulatto.” Ko Smith, painter based in New York City. Featured in “Evoking the Mulatto.” Kaliya Warren, filmmaker based in New York City. Featured in…

  • Maybe you don’t say you’re black if you’re biracial. But it’s how you’re seen

    Maybe you don’t say you’re black if you’re biracial. But it’s how you’re seen The Guardian 2015-11-22 Zach Stafford, Contributing Writer Chicago, Illinois No matter how I identify or how I feel, it’s my skin color that determines how I’ll be treated Like every young black man I know, I remember the moment when my…

  • First Look at Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton in ‘The Loving Story’ (Based on Anti-Miscegenation Case)

    First Look at Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton in ‘The Loving Story’ (Based on Anti-Miscegenation Case) Shadow and Act: On Cinema Of The African Diaspora 2015-11-20 Tambay A. Obenson Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton as Mildred and Richard Loving, on the set of the movie “Loving,” being shot in Richmond, Va. (Ben Rothstein/Big Beach Films…

  • Editorial: Biracial in the Time of Black Lives Matter

    Editorial: Biracial in the Time of Black Lives Matter NBC News 2015-11-22 Amity Paye I’ll never forget the first Black Lives Matter protest I attended in New York. After years of rallying against police violence in New York, this was the first night where race was the central message. As a Black woman it spoke…

  • Census Bureau Statement on Classifying Filipinos

    Census Bureau Statement on Classifying Filipinos United States Census Bureau 2015-11-09 Release Number: CB15-RTQ.26 Public Information Office: 301-763-3030 NOV. 9, 2015 — The Census Bureau has no current plans to classify Filipinos outside of the Asian race category. Filipinos are classified as Asian on Census Bureau forms based on the Office of Management and Budget’s…

  • Census change may result in fewer ‘white’ Americans

    The Census Bureau is considering changes to its race and ethnicity questions that would reclassify some minorities who were considered “white” in the past, a move that may speed up the date when America’s white population falls below 50%.

  • Q&A with Miriam Jiménez Román

    In February, Latina magazine listed “6 Afro-Latinas Who Are Changing the World.” Naturally, Miriam Jiménez Román was second on the list.

  • African American Exceptionalism and the Truth Behind the Rage over Zoe Saldaña Playing Nina Simone

    African American Exceptionalism and the Truth Behind the Rage over Zoe Saldaña Playing Nina Simone Upliftt: Latinos in Film, TV and Theater 2015-11-09 William Garcia In a recent article from the Huffington Post, Zoe Saldaña talks about the Nina Simone biopic that has been controversial all over the Black blogospheres. Saldaña said: “the people behind…

  • Taye Diggs’ ‘mixed’ comments spurs conversation about raising biracial kids

    Taye Diggs’ ‘mixed’ comments spurs conversation about raising biracial kids PIX 11 (WPIX) New York, New York 2015-11-20 Senior editor of Ebony magazine Jamilah Lemieux, biracial blogger Lisa Rosenberg and biracial filmmaker Lacey Schwartz talk about actor Taye Diggs’ comments about wanting his son to embrace being “mixed.” Watch the video here.

  • Who’s telling who to STFU at American universities? Observations on teaching at a HWCU.

    Ah, yes: freedom of speech. What some really mean when they evoke it is, “my right to have my say and not have you talk back,” like all of those crybabies who have cancelled their appearances at commencement ceremonies in the last few years because not every student and faculty member greeted their future appearance…