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  • Critical Mixed Race Studies: Research and Teaching on the Margins in the Mainstream

    Critical Mixed Race Studies: Research and Teaching on the Margins in the Mainstream University of California, Los Angeles Haines Hall 279 Friday, 2013-02-15, 12:00-13:30 PST (Local Time) G. Reginald Daniel, Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara In the early 1980s, there emerged several important unpublished doctoral dissertations on multiraciality and the mixed race…

  • Betwixt & Between~Multiracial Identity=A Denial of Blackness

    Betwixt & Between~Multiracial Identity=A Denial of Blackness Mixed Race Radio 2013-02-06, 17:00Z (12:00 EST) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host G. Reginald Daniel, Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara G. Reginald Daniel, Professor of Sociology, teaches courses exploring comparative race and ethnic relations. Since 1989, he has taught “Betwixt and Between,” which is one of…

  • Black History Month Events at Two Colleges

    Black History Month Events at Two Colleges The San Diego Union-Tribune 2013-02-09 Karen Pearlman El Cajon — Both East County community colleges are getting into the commemoration of Black History Month with free events this month. A library exhibit featuring John Robert Clifford, a seminal figure in African-American history (and a forefather of a Cuyamaca…

  • The Race Talk: Multiracialism, White Hegemony, and Identity Politics

    The Race Talk: Multiracialism, White Hegemony, and Identity Politics Information Age Publishing 2012-10-25 144 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-61735-912-5 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-61735-913-2 eBook ISBN: 978-1-61735-914-9 Pierre W. Orelus, Assistant Professor of Education New Mexico State University Drawing on critical race theory, this book critically examines race through a mosaic lens pointing out various issues directly connected…

  • The New Southern-Latino Table: Recipes That Bring Together the Bold and Beloved Flavors of Latin America and the American South

    The New Southern-Latino Table: Recipes That Bring Together the Bold and Beloved Flavors of Latin America and the American South University of North Carolina Press September 2011 320 pages 7.625 x 8.375, 20 color illus., bibl., index Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8078-3494-7 Sandra A. Gutierrez In this splendid cookbook, bicultural cook Sandra Gutierrez blends ingredients, traditions, and…

  • A comprehensive and complex look at multiethnic Asian American identities

    A comprehensive and complex look at multiethnic Asian American identities Nichi Bei: A mixed plate of Japanese American News & Culture 2013-01-01 Ben Hamamoto, Nichi Bei Weekly Contributor When Half is Whole: Multiethnic Asian American Identities, by Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu (Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2012, 248 pp., $21.95, paperback) The whole spectrum of the…

  • Racial Socialization of Biracial Youth: Maternal Messages and Approaches to Address Discrimination

    Racial Socialization of Biracial Youth: Maternal Messages and Approaches to Address Discrimination Family Relations: Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Family Studies Volume 62, Issue 1 (February 2013) pages 140–153 DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2012.00748.x Alethea Rollins, Instructor, Child and Family Development University of Central Missouri Andrea G. Hunter, Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies University of North…

  • What does Martin Luther King mean to Latinos today?

    What does Martin Luther King mean to Latinos today? Bentley IMPACT – The Power of Ideas Bentley University, Waltham, Massachusetts 2013-01-17 Donna Maria Blancero, Associate Professor of Management “I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their…

  • Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond

    Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond HarperCollins 2005 240 pages Trimsize: 6 x 9 Trade Paperback ISBN: 9780060761424; ISBN10: 0060761423 Essie Mae Washington-Williams and William Stadiem Breaking nearly eight decades of silence, Essie Mae Washington-Williams comes forward with a story of unique historical magnitude and incredible human drama. Her father, the…

  • Essie Mae Washington-Williams dies at 87; black daughter of segregationist Strom Thurmond

    Essie Mae Washington-Williams dies at 87; black daughter of segregationist Strom Thurmond The Los Angeles Times 2013-02-04 Elaine Woo In 2003 the retired L.A. schoolteacher unburdened herself of a secret: Her father was Sen. Strom Thurmond, the legendary South Carolina politician who had built a career as a champion of segregation. A week before Christmas…