Category: Arts

  • A Free Man of Color [Theater Review] The Faster Times 2010-11-18 Johnathon Mandell Opening Date: 2010-11-18 Closing Date: 2011-01-09 Written by John Guare Directed by George C. Wolfe As “A Free Man of Color” begins, its hero, an ex-slave, is a bewigged, bejeweled fop who is the wealthiest and most sexually desirable man in New…

  • The Quadroon Ball on stage one week only Oct. 13-17 [2010] Lone Star College The Woodlands, Texas 2010-09-22 Lone Star College-CyFair Drama Department presents Damon Wright’s play “The Quadroon Ball” on stage Oct. 13 through Oct. 17 [2010]. “The Quadroon Ball” is a moving drama taking place in New Orleans just prior to the Civil…

  • Hypodescent: New Work by Gabriel Mejia University of Wisconsin, Madison George L. Mosse Humanities Building 7th Floor Gallery Room 7240 455 North Park Street 2010-12-11 through 2010-12-16 Gabriel Mejia All events are free and open to the public. Closing Reception: 2010-12-16, 19:00-21:00 CST (Local Time). A meditation on identity and the social constructs of racial…

  • “War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art” Critical Ethnic Studies Association Conference University of California, Riverside Critical Ethnic Studies and the Future of Genocide: Settler Colonialism/Heteropatriarchy/White Supremacy 2011-03-10 through 2011-03-12 Laura Kina, Associate Professor of Art, Media, and Design and distinguished Vincent de Paul Professor DePaul University Wei Ming Dariotis, Associate Professor Asian American…

  • Reggae superstar Bob Marley suffered due to his mixed-race background

  • Afro-Mexico: Dancing between Myth and Reality University of Texas Press December 2010 183 pages 62 b&w illus, 14 color photos 7 x 10 in. Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-292-72324-5 Anita González, Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Theatre Arts State University of New York, New Paltz Photographs by George O. Jackson and José Manuel Pellicer Foreword by…

  • Mexican Art Genre Reveals 18th-Century Attitudes on Racial Mixing

  • Video from 2010 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at DePaul now available on iTunes U If you missed the Nov 5-6, 2010 “Emerging Paradigms in Critical Mixed Race Studies” conference or any of the keynote talks or the welcoming address, you can now download the videos via Apple’s iTunes U. Here is a link to the…

  • Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference DePaul University, Lincoln Park Campus DePaul University Student Center 2250 N. Sheffield Chicago, Illinois USA 60614 2010-11-05 through 2010-11-06 Sponsored by DePaul University Asian American Studies and Latin American and Latino Studies and co-sponsored by the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University and the MAVIN Foundation. “Emerging…

  • Mulatto Nation: An installation by Lezley Saar The List Gallery at Swarthmore College 2003-02-28 through 2003-03-30 Lezley Saar From: Mulattos at War: Battle of ‘Halfway’ Historian Lezley Saar, professor emerita from MU (Mulatto University) and a lifelong outspoken activist for the Mulatto Movement, traces the history of the Mulatto Nation from its bumpy beginnings to…