Mixed Race Studies

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  • Commentary: Black Is…

    Commentary: Black Is… Black Entertainment Television (BET) 2012-12-17 James Braxton Peterson, Director of Africana Studies; Associate Professor of English Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Black in America explores what it means to be Black. CNN’s Black in America series has become something of a welcome crucible for the Black community these last four years — especially…

  • 2012 Person of the Year: Barack Obama, the President

    2012 Person of the Year: Barack Obama, the President Time Magazine 2012-12-19 Michael Scherer Photograph by Nadav Kander Twenty-seven years after driving from New York City to Chicago in a $2,000 Honda Civic for a job that probably wouldn’t amount to much, Barack Obama, in better shape but with grayer hair, stood in the presidential…

  • Marriages Across Racial, Ethnic Lines on the Rise, Study Says

    Marriages Across Racial, Ethnic Lines on the Rise, Study Says Education Week 2012-02-16 Lesli A. Maxwell, Education Reporter As the number of couples marrying across racial and ethnic lines continues to grow in the United States, public attitudes toward intermarriage are also becoming more accepting, according to a new report by the Pew Research Center.…

  • Evoking the Mulatto: Exploring Black Mixed Identity in the 21st Century

    Evoking the Mulatto: Exploring Black Mixed Identity in the 21st Century 2012 Lindsay C. Harris, Creator, Director, Artist & Lead Curator Tida Tippapart, Producer and Co-Curator Chelsea Rae Klein, Web Designer and Co-Curator Evoking the Mulatto is a multiplatform narrative and visual art project examining black mixed identity in the 21st century, through the lens…

  • Reflections on Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference

    Reflections on Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations Brooklyn Historical Society November 2012 Rita Kamani-Renedo Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to attend the second biennial Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at DePaul University in Chicago. I was excited to return after having attended the inaugural conference in 2010. This time,…

  • Soledad O’Brien Is Betting on Jeff Zucker

    Soledad O’Brien Is Betting on Jeff Zucker The New York Times Magazine 2012-12-18 Andrew Goldman Your memoir made your experience growing up in Smithtown, a largely white town on Long Island, sound like a huge drag. It really wasn’t. It is truly not fun to be the family that sticks out in an all-white community.…

  • The Color of Colorblind: Exploring Mixed Race Identity

    The Color of Colorblind: Addressing the History of Racial Classification and Mixed Racial Identity in the U.S.

  • Latinas and Latinos of Mixed Ancestry first interest survey

    Latinas and Latinos of Mixed Ancestry first interest survey Latinas and Latinos of Mixed Ancestry (LOMA) 2012-12-17 Welcome to LOMA’s first interest survey.  Your responses will help us learn more about you, the community we serve, and what we should be doing!  For more information, click here. LOMA is a program of Multiracial Americans of…

  • Passing for Black in Seventeenth-Century Maryland

    Passing for Black in Seventeenth-Century Maryland Chapter in: Interpreting the Early Modern World: Transatlantic Perspectives Springer 2011 246 pages eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-70759-4 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-70758-7 Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-2709-4 Edited by: Mary C. Beaudry and James Symonds Chapter Authors: Julia A. King, Associate Professor of Anthropology St. Mary’s College of Maryland Edward E. Chaney In the…

  • Dr. Yaba Blay Explores ‘One-Drop’ Rule [VIDEO]

    Dr. Yaba Blay Explores ‘One-Drop’ Rule [VIDEO] NewsOne: For Black America 2012-12-14 Jeff Mays Remember when President Barack Obama won in 2008 and pundits started asking if the United States was post-racial because we had a Black man in the White House?   Well, people like Dr. Yaba Blay (pictured) knew better.   Blay, an…