Category: United States

  • A Review of One Drop of Love: A Daughter’s Search for Her Father’s Racial Approval Gino Michael Pellegrini: Education, Race, Multiraciality, Class & Solidarity 2013-05-08 Gino Michael Pellegrini, Adjunct Assistant Professor of English Pierce College, Woodland Hills, California Is Fanshen a noun, a verb, or an adjective? Is it a who or a what? What…

  • Novelist Heidi Durrow Looks Up [Book Review] Hot Metal Bridge: a literary magazine Published by the University of Pittsburgh 2010-02-15 Liberty Hultberg The Girl who Fell from the Sky, by Heidi W. Durrow (Algonquin, January 2010) Durrow’s debut novel explores modern multiracial identity within one mixed girl’s experience of love, family, class, and beauty in…

  • Canon Fodder: ‘The Girl Who Fell From the Sky’ and the Problem of Mixed-Race Identity Specter Magazine: A Brooklyn-based Art Journal Ghost+Blog (August 2011) 2011-08-18 Summer McDonald Baseball. Apple pie. Buying items in bulk. Buffets. All help create Americana, that itchy, dry-clean only fabric that bonds even the most disparate of us. As fixated as Americans…

  • Heidi Durrow discusses her novel “The Girl Who Fell From the Sky” The Leonard Lopate Show WNYC Radio (93.9 FM or 820 AM) Friday, 2010-05-14, 12:00-14:00 EDT (16:00-18:00Z) Leonard Lopate, Host Heidi W. Durrow, Author Destruction, Restoration We’ll look into how Europe’s economic problems are creating political problems—we’ll check in on the state of the…

  • Heidi Durrow~The Girl Who Fell From the Sky Into Our Hearts Mixed Race Radio Blog Talk Radio 2013-08-28, 16:00Z (12:00 EDT) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host Heidi W. Durrow, Author On Today’s episode of Mixed Race Radio, we will meet author, speaker, and visionary, Heidi Durrow. Heidi is the New York Times best-selling author of The…

  • Despite ‘Enormous Strides,’ Minorities Still Face Barriers, President Says The New York Times 2013-08-23 John Hurdle and Peter Baker SCRANTON, Pa. — President Obama declared on Friday that the United States had made “enormous strides” in race relations since the March on Washington 50 years ago, but said “institutional barriers” for African-Americans and other minorities…

  • Steve Riley Co-hosts a Recap of Some Important Discussions Mixed Race Radio Blog Talk Radio 2013-08-21, 16:00Z (12:00 EDT) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host Steven F. Riley, Creator www.MixedRaceStudies.org On today’s of episode of Mixed Race Radio, join me and our special guest co-host, Steven Riley (Mixedracestudies.org) as we discuss some of our favorite Mixed Race…

  • We Should all Be Terrified brianbantum: theology, culture, teaching and life in-between 2013-07-14 Brian Bantum, Assistant Professor of Theology Seattle Pacific University Today, do not speak to me of peace. Do not speak to me of reconciliation or “turn the other cheek.” Today we must confess. We must confess to what our nation was and…

  • Making it Last: A Couple Who See Race Clearly The New York Times 2013-08-23 Erika Allen Booming’s “Making It Last” column profiles baby boomer couples who have been together 25 years or more. Christopher and Laura Castoro met when she asked him to tutor her in German. They didn’t realize they were of different race…

  • Not All Blacks Are African American: The Importance of Viewing Advisees as Individuals in a Culturally Mosaic Context The Mentor: An Academic Advising Journal Pennsylvania State University 2013-08-15 Mary M. Livingston, Professor of Psychology Louisiana Tech University Latoya Pierce, Assistant professor of Psychology Louisiana Tech University Lou’uan Gollop-Brown, Assistant Professor of Psychology Louisiana Tech University…