Category: United States

  • Stop the finger-wagging about Obama’s Census form The Washington Post 2010-04-29 Kevin Huffman It’s tough being president. In the last year, pretty much every constituency has expressed disappointment in some facet of Barack Obama’s work or play. Now, apparently, the president is even letting down biracial children with his choice of Census categories. Elizabeth Chang…

  • Why Obama should not have checked ‘black’ on his census form The Washington Post 2010-04-29 Elizabeth Chang, Sunday Magazine Editor I have always considered Barack Obama to be biracial, and I had hoped that his election would help our country move beyond the tired concept of race. Unfortunately, the president is not getting with my…

  • Professor Nikki Khanna to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed. Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox and Heidi W. Durrow Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #151 – Professor Nikki Khanna When:…

  • Artist Kip Fulbeck Is Back Exploring Identity, but This Time With Children Los Angeles Downtown News 2010-03-26 Richard Guzmán DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES – Upon entering Mixed, the recently opened show at the Japanese American National Museum, one can’t help but smile. The happy young faces depicted in the 70 photographs that make up the exhibit…

  • Does ‘race’ matter? A study of ‘mixed race’ siblings’ identifications Sociological Review Volume 58, Issue 2 (May 2010) Pages 265 – 285 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-954X.2010.01903.x Miri Song, Professor of Sociology University of Kent ‘Mixed’ people comprise one of the fastest growing populations in Britain today, and their growth refutes the idea that there exist distinct, ‘natural’ races…

  • Obama Makes It Official: He’s African-American The Huffington Post 2010-04-05 Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Political Analyst and Social Issues Commentator President Obama unequivocally and unhesitatingly made it official: he’s African-American. That may sound silly and facile to say that but his checking the box “African-American” on his census form did two things. It made meaningless the…

  • Choosing Racial Sides: Part Two… A Different Perspective USARiseUp.com 2010-02-20 Cassandra Franklin-Barbajosa Contrary to popular opinion, the way mixed-race people look is not the primary influence that determines what part of their heritage they identify with, according to Seattle clinical psychologist and independent scholar Dr. Maria P. P. Root. She says a host of other…

  • Chosing Racial Sides… American Society Forces Its Children To Make Tough Choices USARiseUp.com 2010-02-20 Cassandra Franklin-Barbajosa When Jolanda Williams looks in a mirror, the image she sees is a warm peach complexion framed in dark silky hair, high cheekbones beneath almond eyes, and full lips that slip into an easy, radiant smile. She has a…

  • As the racial hierarchy shifts and inequality between Americans widens, it is important to understand the impact of social class on the rapidly growing multiracial population. “Multiracial Americans and Social Class” is the first book on multiracial Americans to do so and fills a noticeable void in a growing market.

  • Everyday Practice of Race in America: Ambiguous Privilege Routledge 2010-04-13 128 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-203-85266-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-78055-1 E-Book ISBN: 978-0-203-85266-8 Utz McKnight, Assistant Professor of Political Science University of Alabama An original contribution to political theory and cultural studies this work argues for a reinterpretation of how race is described in US society. McKnight…