Category: United States

  • “One-Drop: Fact, Fiction, or Fate?” by Dr. Yaba Blay, April 13th at 7pm in Stirn Auditorium Amherst College Stirn Auditorium, Mead Art Museum Amherst, Massachusetts Saturday, 2013-04-13, 19:00 EDT (Local Time) What exactly is Blackness and what does it mean to be Black? Is Blackness a matter of biology or consciousness? Who determines who is…

  • W.Va. historian to talk on pre-Civil War slave economy The Charleston Gazette Charleston, West Virginia 2013-04-09 Douglas Imbrogno CHARLESTON, W.Va.—Ending slavery was a moral question that haunted early American history, but it was one inextricably tangled up in economics. While West Virginia was a state born in 1863 out of the tumult over slavery and…

  • The Politics of “Passing”: American Indians and Racial “Passing” University of Arizona 2004 80 pages Veronica R. Hirsch Introduction How is the racial “passing” behavioral concept applicable to American Indians, and what political forces created the socio-cultural circumstances that prompted this behavior? Beyond these immediate, sociologically-focused questions, what generational impacts does racial “passing” have upon…

  • War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art [Exhibition] DePaul Art Museum 935 West Fullerton Chicago, Illinois 60614 2013-04-25 through 2013-06-30 As an increasingly ethnically ambiguous Asian American generation is coming of age, War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art looks at the construction of mixed-heritage Asian American identity in the United States. Working…

  • ‘Mixed Kids Are the Cutest’ Isn’t Cute? The Root 2013-04-08 Jenée Desmond-Harris, Staff Writer “I’m a Caucasian woman with a biracial child (her father is black). I live in a predominantly white community. Why is it that whenever people discover that I have a ‘mixed’ child, they always say things like, ‘Oh, he/she must be…

  • Special Event: An Evening with U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey The Newseum Walter and Leonore Annenberg Theater 555 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20001 Telephone: 888/NEWSEUM (888/639-7386) Tuesday, 2013-04-16, 23:00Z (19:00 EDT Local Time, 16:00 PDT) This event will be streamed live on Newseum.org The 19th U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, Natasha Trethewey will read selections…

  • Virgil Westdale: Farm Boy, Pilot, Soldier, Inventor, Author, and Gentleman Japanese American National Museum Stories 2010-09-09 Esther Newman Virgil Westdale’s exceptional life story might never have been published had he not attended a Halloween dance. Unsure of what to wear, the World War II veteran donned his Army uniform of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team,…

  • Performing ‘Race’ and Challenging Racism One Drop of Love: A Daughter’s Search for her Father’s Racial Approval Blog Updates 2013-04-08 Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, Playwright, Producer, Actress, Educator It is an exciting time to be an actor, when the notion of ‘performance’ is taking on new meanings and has the potential to change the way we…

  • Blue Skies and Thunder: Farm Boy, Pilot, Inventor, TSA Officer, and WW II Soldier of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team iUniverse 2009-12-21 296 pages E-Book ISBN: 978-1-44018-258-7 Virgil W. Westdale with Stephanie A. Gerdes In 1942, Virgil Westdale was a successful young flight instructor when the government ousted him from the Air Corps and demoted…

  • A White Face With A Forgotten African Family All Things Considered National Public Radio 2012-11-24 Jacki Lyden, Host Growing up blond-haired and blue-eyed in Southern California, Joe Mozingo always thought his family name was Italian. But as an adult, Mozingo became skeptical of that theory when friends and co-workers began to ask him about his…