Category: Arts

  • Being “Nesian”: Pacific Islander Identity in Australia The Contemporary Pacific Volume 26, Number 1, 2014 pages 126-154 DOI: 10.1353/cp.2014.0013 Kirsten McGavin, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Anthropology University of Queensland, Australia Pacific Islanders in Australia use the terms “Islander” and “Pacific Islander” in many ways and in different circumstances to define themselves and others. Through invoking…

  • Archibald J. Motley, Jr.’s Paintings: Modern Art Shaped by Precision, Candor, and Soul Hyperallergic: Sensitive to Art & its Discontents 2014-03-09 Edward M. Gómez A week ago, 12 Years A Slave won the Academy Award for Best Picture, the first time in the history of the Oscars that the top prize went to a film…

  • Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University 2001 Campus Drive Durham, North Carolina 27705 On view 2014-01-30 through 2014-05-11 ABOUT Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist, the first retrospective of the American artist’s paintings in two decades, will originate at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University on January 30,…

  • Interview with upcoming CultureFest Performer Laura Kina Multiracial Network Blog 2014-03-07 To start us off, we have an interview from our CultureFest performer Laura Kina! As can also be found on her website (http://www.laurakina.com/) Laura is an artist and scholar who focuses “on the fluidity of cultural difference and the slipperiness of identity”. With subjects…

  • GalleryDAAS: Photographs by Ed West University of Michigan G648 Haven Hall 505 S State Street Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 2014-03-13 through 2014-05-02 Opening Reception: 2014-03-14, 17:30-20:00 CDT (Local Time) Hosted by the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) GalleryDAAS presents So Called, a photography series by award-winning artist and U-M professor Edward West. Curated…

  • The Racial Pecking Order in British Theatre and TV Media Diversified: Tackling the lack of diversity in UK media and the ubiquity of whiteness 2014-02-28 Daniel York I’ve been reading a book recently by the American sociologist David T. Wellman with the frankly terrifying title Portraits Of White Racism. I say terrifying because it conjures…

  • Featured Writer: Daniel York Banana Writers​: Where Asian writers get unpeeled 2013-10-11 P. P. Wong Daniel York is a successful scriptwriter, director and actor who is passionate about championing equal rights for creative East Asians. Born of mixed Chinese and English parentage, the talented British writer was selected as part of the Royal Court’s Unheard Voices initiative for emerging East Asian writers.…

  • News Nation with Tamron Hall (with guest Yaba Blay) News Nation with Tamron Hall 2014-02-25 Drexel University Professor Yaba Blay discusses her new book (1)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race with host Tamron Hall. Watch the interview here.

  • Mixed Race America: Identities and Culture Fifteenth Annual American Studies Conference Macalester College 1600 Grand Avenue Saint Paul, Minnesota 55105 2014-02-27 through 2014-02-28 Keynote Address Thursday, 2014-02-27, 18:00-19:30 CST (Local Time) Alexander G. Hill Ballroom Kagin Commons, Macalester Keynote Speakers: Ralina L. Joseph, Associate Professor of Communication University of Washington Author of: Transcending Blackness: From…

  • Multiple (Eye)dentity Series: (1)ne Drop Rule w/ Yaba Blay New York University Kimmel Center for University Life 60 Washington Square Sout Room 802 New York, New York 10012 Thursday, 2014-02-27, 17:00-21:00 EST (Local Time) The Multiple (Eye)dentity Series is comprised of films, performances and speakers that showcase the ways in which art and media are…