Category: United States

  • Who is Latino? The Washington Post 2013-06-21 Carlos Lozada, Editor of Outlook, The Washington Post’s Sunday section for opinion, analysis ‘Shut up, you stupid Mexican!” The words spewed from the mouth of a pale, freckle-faced boy, taunting me on our elementary school playground. I wish I could recall what I said to inspire the insult.…

  • “Pig Candy” is the poignant and often comical story of a grown daughter getting to know her dying father in his last months. During a series of visits with her father to the South he’d escaped as a young black man, Lise Funderburg, the mixed-race author of the acclaimed “Black, White, Other,” comes to understand…

  • CREE w/ Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, PhD Counter-Racist Evolving Engineer (CREE) Blog Talk Radio 2013-06-16 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Professor of Sociology Duke University Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, PhD,  is a professor of sociology and a council member of Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Duke University.  He is the author of several books including the acclaimed Racism without…

  • Hapa Hoops: Japanese American Basketball and Community with Rex Walters Japanese American National Museum 100 North Central Avenue Los Angeles, California, 90012 Saturday, 2013-06-22, 14:00 PDT (Local Time) Join us as we explore the experiences of Hapa Japanese Americans and their experiences in Japanese American basketball leagues. Hapa Hoops will feature a screening of JANM’s…

  • Mildred Loving, Who Battled Ban on Mixed-Race Marriage, Dies at 68 The New York Times 2008-05-06 Douglas Martin Mildred Loving, a black woman whose anger over being banished from Virginia for marrying a white man led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling overturning state miscegenation laws, died on May 2 at her home in Central…

  • Mixed-Race People Fastest Growing Group, Census Data Shows KPIX 5 (CBS) San Francisco, California 2013-06-14 Elizabeth Cook, Co-Anchor Ryan Takeo, Reporter The face of the nation is changing rapidly, as Census data shows mixed-race people are the fastest-growing ethnic group. Ryan Takeo reports. Note from Steven F. Riley: Features San Francisco State University Associate Professor…

  • Whither White America? The American Prospect 2013-06-13 Jamelle Bouie More thoughts on the future of white people. “Majority-minority” is an unusual term—by definition, minorities are no longer such if they’re in the majority—but it’s a convenient shorthand for what most people expect to happen in the United States over the next few decades. A growing…

  • Not Quite White: Arabs, Slavs, and the Contours of Contested Whiteness Typecast Releasing 2012 USA English 24 minutes Jamil Khoury, Director and Writer Stephen Combs, Director Inspired by Jamil Khoury’s short play WASP: White Arab Slovak Pole, Not Quite White: Arabs, Slavs, and the Contours of Contested Whiteness is a thought-provoking documentary that explores the…

  • Dr. J .T. Mills: Helping Students Explore Concepts of Race Mixed Race Radio Blog Talk Radio 2013-06-19, 16:00Z (12:00 EDT) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host John T. Mills, Assistant Director of Multicultural Affairs Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersery Legitimate knowledge regarding the construction of race in America is absent in today’s youth and college aged students.…

  • Are you a biracial/mulitraical individual? Tufts University Social Psychology Program at Tufts University 2013-06-18 Sarah Gaither, M.S. (E-Mail) Are you biracial/multiracial or mixed race? We are looking for people to complete a short online study (around 10 minutes long) in exchange for a chance at $25.00 USD. The study will involve providing some ratings about a…