Category: Arts

  • Geek Out: Mixed Race in America University of Californa, Berkeley Lawrence Hall of Science 2010-02-10, 19:00 to 22:00 PST (Local Time) Geek Discourse Tour the “Race: Are We So Different?” exhibit and participate in a discussion facilitated by Dr. Victoria Robinson of the UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies and American Cultures programs on what it means…

  • ‘Multiracial Identity’ documentary film and discussion Portland State University 228 Smith Union Wednesday, 2010-03-03, from 18:30-21:00 PST (Local Time) This new documentary explores the social and political impact of adding a Multiracial Category (the fastest growing demographic in America) as a stand-alone racial group on the US Census. Different racial and cultural groups see multiracialism…

  • Prejudice inspires filmmaker to discover Afro-German roots Indiana Daily Student Indiana University 2010-01-24 Abby Liebenthal, Staff Reporter “It all started with a public threat on my life.” Within the first few minutes of Mo Asumang’s documentary “Roots Germania,” students, faculty and Bloomington residents became part of a search for the director’s identity… …Asumang said the…

  • Coloring the Caribbean: Agostino Brunias and the Painting of Race in the British West Indies, 1765-1800 Mia L. Bagneris, Doctoral Candidate in the Department of African and African American Studies Harvard University This dissertation explores interracial themes in the work of Agostino Brunias, a little known but fascinating Italian artist who painted for British patrons…

  • Art Showcase Seeks to Study Racial Identity Daily Nexus University of California, Santa Barbara 2010-02-02 Issue 70, Volume 90 Julie Epstein, Staff Writer The UCSB Women’s Center is currently hosting a multicultural art exhibit featuring work from students and professional artists. The art on display ranges from paintings to photography, and even includes a work…

  • Jean Toomer and Cane: “Mixed-Blood” Impossibilities Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory Volume 64, Number 4, Winter 2008 E-ISSN: 1558-9595, Print ISSN: 0004-1610 DOI: 10.1353/arq.0.0025 Gino Michael Pellegrini, Adjunct Assistant Professor of English Pierce College, Woodland Hills, California Even though Jean Toomer was black and white, his fascination with miscegenation in…

  • Mixed-Race Issues in the American and French Melodrama: An Analysis of the Imitation of Life Films (Stahl, USA, 1934; Sirk, USA, 1959) and Métisse (Kassovitz, France, 1993) In: Martin McLoone & Kevin Rockett, eds. Irish Films, Global Cinema, Studies in Irish Film 4. Four Courts Press 2007 176 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-1-84682-081-6 Zélie Asava University…

  • Africanastudies: YouTube Channel First Documentary Posted: 2008-03-27 Marco Polo Hernández Cuevas, Asssociate Professor of Spanish North Carolina Central University Reconstructs the involuntary planetary dispersion of African populations, with their millenary cultural capitals, between the 15th and 19th centuries; and analyses the africanization of the places of arrival through their ethnic contributions. Reconstruye la dispersión planetaria…

  • The Africanization of Mexico from the Sixteenth Century to the Present Edwin Mellen Press 2010 212 pages ISBN10: 0-7734-3781-9; ISBN13: 978-0-7734-3781-4 Marco Polo Hernández Cuevas, Asssociate Professor of Spanish North Carolina Central University This work is an Afrocentric analysis that subscribes to the notion that there is one human race of multiple ethnicities. It acknowledges…

  • Mixed Race Hollywood (review) [Emily D. Edwards] Journal of Film and Video Volume 61, Number 4 (Winter 2009) E-ISSN: 1934-6018 Print ISSN: 0742-4671 DOI: 10.1353/jfv.0.0051 Emily D. Edwards, Professor of Broadcasting and Cinema University of North Carolina, Greensboro Mixed Race Hollywood is a collection of essays that could not be timelier. As popular media, journalists,…