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  • ‘Why I Don’t Want to Talk About Race’

    ‘Why I Don’t Want to Talk About Race’ The Good Men Project 2011-01-08 Steve Locke, Associate Professor of Art Education Massachusetts College of Art and Design Tom Matlack asked his friend Steve Locke to write for us about race. He declined. Here’s why. Dear Tom, Thanks so much for asking me to contribute something to…

  • In Florida, a Death Foretold

    In Florida, a Death Foretold The New York Times 2012-03-31 Isabel Wilkerson In the mid-1930s, a Yale anthropologist ventured to an unnamed town in the South to explore the feudal divisions of what we commonly call race but what he preferred to describe with the more layered language of caste. When he arrived — white,…

  • The first black president has made it harder to talk about race in America

    The first black president has made it harder to talk about race in America The Washington Post 2012-03-23 Reniqua Allen, Freelance Journalist and Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow New America Foundation A few weeks ago, I was standing outside a posh bar on the Lower East Side of Manhattan with my friends of almost two decades.…

  • He Checked That Box, But How Black is Obama?

    He Checked That Box, But How Black is Obama? Politic365: From Your Point of View 2013-07-12 William Reed, Head The Business Exchange Network “If you had a choice of color, which one would you choose, my brother?” – Curtis Mayfield, 1969 In the official U.S. 2010 head count, President Barack Obama provided one answer to…

  • Racism, White Supremacy and Biracial/Multiraciality (2011)

    From my September 2011 talk at Spalding University in Louisville, KY. In this snippet, I respond to a question about how we should understand or think about biracial and multiracial folks’ experiences in a system of racism/white supremacy.

  • Trayvon Martin, my son, and the Black Male Code

    Trayvon Martin, my son, and the Black Male Code The Associated Press 2012-03-24 Jesse Washington, National Writer/Race and Ethnicity PHILADELPHIA (AP) — I thought my son would be much older before I had to tell him about the Black Male Code. He’s only 12, still sleeping with stuffed animals, still afraid of the dark. But…

  • Understanding Ethnic-Racial Socialization and Cognition among Multiracial Youth: A Mixed Methods Study

    Understanding Ethnic-Racial Socialization and Cognition among Multiracial Youth: A Mixed Methods Study University of Massachusetts, Boston June 2013 Susan A. Lambe Sarinana According to the 2010 census report, 9 million people (2.9% of the total population in the United States) identified as multiracial. Of the individuals who identified (or whose parents/guardians identified them) as multiracial,…

  • An African American’s Perspective on the Korean Wave

    An African American’s Perspective on the Korean Wave The Chosunilbo Seoul, Korea 2013-07-09 Emanuel Pastreich, Associate Professor Humanitas College, Kyunghee University I received an unexpected email in February 2013, from a young woman who was studying public health at Harvard University. Mariesa Lee Ricks explained that her mother was Korean and that she had a…

  • A Postracial Society or A Diversity Paradox? Race, Immigration, and Multiraciality in the Twenty-First Century

    A Postracial Society or A Diversity Paradox? Race, Immigration, and Multiraciality in the Twenty-First Century Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race Volume 9, Issue 2, Fall 2012 pages 419-437 DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X12000161 Jennifer Lee, Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Frank D. Bean, Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine At the…

  • “The One and Only Cheerios”~ The “NEW” American Family?

    “The One and Only Cheerios”~ The “NEW” American Family? Mixed Race Radio Blog Talk Radio 2013-07-10, 16:00Z (12:00 EDT) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host Join us on Wednesday July 10th, 2013 as we explore the newest General Mills Cheerios commercial that recently debuted. We will discuss the backlash and speak with an all-star guest line-up while…