Category: United States

  • Obama as Wounded Healer Psychology Today Ideals in Question: Exploring values in psychotherapeutic culture 2013-08-02 Stephen Salter, Psy.D. Validating the context of racial trauma On July 19th, Barack Obama honored the life of Trayvon Martin by giving voice to the history of racial trauma in the African American community.  “It could have been me,” Obama…

  • Often Misidentified, Multiracial People Value Accurate Perceptions American Psychological Association Press Releases 2013-08-02 Average American has trouble identifying multiracial people, research finds HONOLULU — Multiracial people may be misidentified more often as being white than black and may value being accurately identified more so than single-race individuals, according to research presented at APA’s 121st Annual…

  • Breeding Unity: Battlestar Galactica’s Biracial Reproductive Futurity Camera Obscura Volume 27, Number 3 81 (2012) pages 1-37 DOI: 10.1215/02705346-1727446 Anne Kustritz, Assistant Professor in Television Studies University of Amsterdam While Battlestar Galactica reinvigorated the science fiction genre by representing contemporary political problems in a complex, often radical fashion, the series also makes visible a new articulation…

  • Is George Zimmerman white, Latino or mixed race? Depends on who you ask. The Seattle Globalist: Where Seattle Meets the World 2013-08-01 Leilani Nishime, Assistant Professor of Communications University of Washington, Seattle It’s been nearly two weeks since the George Zimmerman verdict was handed down, and the conversations in my Facebook feed have shifted from…

  • Status and Stress The New York Times 2013-07-27 Moises Velasquez-Manoff Although professionals may bemoan their long work hours and high-pressure careers, really, there’s stress, and then there’s Stress with a capital “S.” The former can be considered a manageable if unpleasant part of life; in the right amount, it may even strengthen one’s mettle. The…

  • What Interracial and Gay Couples Know About ‘Passing’ The Atlantic 2013-07-31 Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Charles M. and Marion J. Kierscht Professor of Law University of Iowa As I awaited news of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decisions in the same-sex marriage cases last month, I began to reflect on all of the daily privileges that I receive…

  • Race and the Visual Arts: LAHS-P236 Berklee College of Music Boston, Massachusetts Fall 2013 In this course, students explore the representation of race in visual culture and the ways in which culture marks subjects, objects, and bodies with racial identity. Wherever we look we are confronted by images that are explicitly or implicitly racialized—in artistic…

  • Study explores race differences of lung cancer risk Vanderbilt University Medical Center Reporter 2013-08-01 Mimi Eckhard Vanderbilt research scientist Melinda Aldrich, Ph.D., MPH, has been awarded a National Institutes of Health Academic Career Award to investigate some of the genetic secrets behind a greater risk of lung cancer among African-Americans compared with other racial and…

  • War Baby / Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art curated by: Laura Kina, Associate Professor Art, Media and Design and Director Asian American Studies DePaul University Wei Ming Dariotis, Associate Professor Asian American Studies San Francisco State University Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience 2013-08-09 through 2014-01-19 719 S. King Street Seattle,…

  • ‘Doing the right thing’: transracial adoption in the USA Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 36, Issue 8 (August 2013) Special Issue: Mothering Across Racialised Boundaries pages 1273-1291 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2013.776698 Ravinder Barn, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work Royal Holloway, University of London Racial/cultural identity and parental cultural competence in transracial adoption (TRA) are subjects…