Mixed Race Studies

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  • Mixed People: “Natural Bridges” to Racial Healing & Utopia?

    Mixed People: “Natural Bridges” to Racial Healing & Utopia? Mixed Race Radio Blog Talk Radio 2013-09-04, 16:00Z (12:00 EDT) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host Rainier Spencer, Senior Advisor to the President; Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies; Founder and Director of the Afro-American Studies Program University of Nevada, Las Vegas On today’s episode of Mixed Race Radio we will…

  • Mapping “Race”: Critical Approaches to Health Disparities Research

    Mapping “Race”: Critical Approaches to Health Disparities Research Rutgers University Press 2013-08-12 256 pages 6 figures, 8 tables, 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-6136-3 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-6137-0 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-8135-6138-7 Edited by: Laura E. Gómez, Professor of Law, Sociology, and Chicano Studies University of California, Los Angeles Nancy López, Associate Professor of Sociology University of…

  • Thomas Cole: Reading the Paintings from The Last of the Mohicans

    Thomas Cole: Reading the Paintings from The Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper Society Website Oneonta College, State University of New York July 2013 Roberta Gray Katz DePaul University Presented at the 18th Cooper Seminar, James Fenimore Cooper: His Country and His Art at the State University of New York College at Oneonta, July,…

  • Are Latinos “White”?

    Are Latinos “White”? Jesus For Revolutionaries: A Blog About Race, Social Justice, and Christianity 2013-08-30 Robert Chao Romero, Associate Professor of Chicana/o Studies and Asian American Studies University of California, Los Angeles Hundreds of years of cultural politics underly the current debate over the proper racial categorization for Latinos.   For the greater part of U.S.…

  • New Book by Dr. Yaba Blay Explores Racial Identity and Skin Color Politics

    New Book by Dr. Yaba Blay Explores Racial Identity and Skin Color Politics Drexel Now Drexel University 2013-07-31 News Media Contact: Alex McKechnie, News Officer, University Communications Phone: 215-895-2705; Mobile: 401-651-7550 What does it mean to be Black? Is Blackness a matter of biology or consciousness? What determines who is Black and who is not?…

  • The Debate: Multiracial Identity

    The Debate: Multiracial Identity The Agenda with Steve Paikin TVO (TV Ontario) Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2011-07-22, 20:00 EDT (Local Time) Also at: 2011-07-25, 05:00 EDT (Local Time) Piya Chattopadhyay, Host Guests (in order of appearance) Rainier Spencer, Director of the Afro-American Studies Program University of Nevada, Las Vegas (Author of three books on multiracialism including, Reproducing Race:…

  • Saluting a Dream, and Adapting It for a New Era

    Saluting a Dream, and Adapting It for a New Era The New York Times 2013-08-28 Peter Baker and Sheryl Gay Stolberg WASHINGTON — President Obama stepped into the space on Wednesday where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once stood, summoning his iconic dream of a colorblind society in a celebration of a half-century…

  • President, Not Preacher, but Speaking More on Race

    President, Not Preacher, but Speaking More on Race The New York Times 2013-08-27 Peter Baker WASHINGTON — Sitting in the Roosevelt Room with prominent African-American religious leaders, President Obama on Monday mused about how far the nation had come in the 50 years since the March on Washington led by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther…

  • The Politics of Multiracialism in an Anti-Black World

    The Politics of Multiracialism in an Anti-Black World I MiX What I Like! WPFW 89.3 FM, Washington, D.C. 2011-10-07 Jared A. Ball, Host and Associate Professor of Communication Studies Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland Jared Sexton, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Film & Media Studies University of California, Irvine Dr. Jared Sexton joined…

  • Mixed “Race” in Southeast Asia?: Racial Theories in Competing Empires (Sawyer Seminar V)

    Mixed “Race” in Southeast Asia?: Racial Theories in Competing Empires (Sawyer Seminar V) University of Southern California Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Center for Japanese Religions and Culture University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library (DML), East Asian Seminar Room (110C) 2013-10-12, 10:00-16:00 PDT (Local Time) USC Conference Convenors: Duncan Williams,…