Category: United States

  • ‘Visible & Invisible’ Exhibition to Explore History of Hapa JA Experience The Rafu Shimpo: Los Angeles Japanese Daily News 2013-03-31 The Japanese American National Museum, in collaboration with the USC Hapa Japan Database Project, will present its next exhibition, “Visible & Invisible: A Hapa Japanese American History,” from Sunday, April 7, through Sunday, Aug. 25.…

  • Poverty at a Racial Crossroads: Poverty Among Multiracial Children of Single Mothers Journal of Marriage and Family Volume 75, Issue 2, April 2013 pages 486-502 DOI: 10.1111/jomf.12012 Jenifer L. Bratter, Associate Professor of Sociology Rice University Sarah Damaske, Assistant Professor of Labor Studies & Employment Relations Pennsylvania State University Although multiracial youth represent a growing…

  • Barry McGee art21: Art in the Twenty-First Century Public Broadcasting Service Season 1 (2001), Place About Barry McGee A lauded and much-respected cult figure in a bi-coastal subculture that comprises skaters, graffiti artists, and West Coast surfers, Barry McGee was born in 1966 in California, where he continues to live and work. In 1991, he…

  • The Graffitist Who Moved Indoors The New York Times 2013-03-28 Carol Kino SAN FRANCISCO — “This is one of my favorite things to do,” Barry McGee said as he drove along the Bayshore Freeway on a glowering winter day, pointing out random patches of new graffiti. He was supposed to be talking about his traveling…

  • Concepts and Terminology in Representations of the Atlantic Slave Trade Journal of Museum Ethnography No. 6, MEG Conference “Museum Ethnography and Communities” (October 1994) pages 7-21 Stephen Small, Associate Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies University of California, Berkeley Introduction Many scholars concur on how Black people were differentiated from white people during…

  • …We’ve been here before, and that is the disappointment. Reminded in the course of Saulny’s treatment that terms like “mulatto,” “once tinged with shame…is enjoying a comeback in some young circles” (1), one wonders what all the brouhaha about “post-racial” identity actually means, unless the new racialist reflexes are intended to be taken as parodic…

  • A House Divided: The Invisibility of the Multiracial Family Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review Volume 44, Number 1 2009 pages 231-253 University of Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-26 Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Professor of Law, Charles M. and Marion J. Kierscht Scholar University of Iowa College of Law Jacob Willig-Onwuachi, Assistant Professor of Physics…

  • “You’re Irish?” Celebrating Hidden Identities Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu 2012-03-31 Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu Stanford University “You’re Irish?” I introduced myself to the Irishman by my father’s family name Murphy and watched as he stared at me in seeming disbelief and confusion before uttering, “Well, it’s a good name anyway.” I recalled this incident recently as I celebrated St.…

  • Summary: Attacks the Southern Democracy’s supposed distaste for “niggers,” and notes their close quarters with blacks at home, including the propagation of “half-niggers.”

  • Speaking in Tongues The New York Review of Books Volume 56, Number 3 (2009-02-26) Zadie Smith The following is based on a lecture given at the New York Public Library in December 2008. 1. Hello. This voice I speak with these days, this English voice with its rounded vowels and consonants in more or less…