Mixed Race Studies

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  • Reflections on Multiracial Identity on Another Thanksgiving Passed

    Reflections on Multiracial Identity on Another Thanksgiving Passed Black Agenda Report: News, information and analysis from the black left. 2015-12-01 Danny Haiphong The U.S. imperial domain floats on raw force and fairy tales. One myth “paints the U.S. as a safe haven for people of different backgrounds instead of the genocidal settler state that it…

  • Chasing Daybreak: A Film About Mixed Race in America

    Chasing Daybreak: A Film About Mixed Race in America University of Michigan Shapiro Undergraduate Library 919 South University Avenue Screening Room 2160 Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1185 2016-01-19, 12:00-14:00 CST (Local Time) Karen E Downing, Host Contact This is one of a year-long series of events that explore what it means to be multiracial in a…

  • Are multiracial millennials leading the way towards an inclusive society?

    While the nation’s multiracial population is growing – does that make our culture more understanding of issues of diversity?

  • White Debt: Reckoning with what is owed — and what can never be repaid — for racial privilege.

    So far, my debt is surprisingly comfortable, and that’s one quality of debt that I’ve been pondering lately — how easy it can be.

  • Black Enough/White Enough: The Obama Dilema

    Black Enough/White Enough: The Obama Dilema Third World Press February 2009 199 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0883783092 Rickey Hendon Foreword by: Hermene D. Hartman Barack is caught between two worlds and struggles for acceptance by either side-Black enough? White enough? It’s a fine line that he must walk, writes Illinois state Senator Rickey Hendon, in Black…

  • Intersection Episode 10: Being Melissa Harris-Perry Is a Full-Time Job

    Intersection Episode 10: Being Melissa Harris-Perry Is a Full-Time Job The New Republic Intersection with Jamil Smith 2015-12-01 Jamil Smith, Senior Editor and Host Professor, feminist, TV host, activist, mom, rabid hip-hop fan. Melissa Harris-Perry works seven days a week balancing all her identities, and she isn’t stopping anytime soon. Besides hosting her eponymous MSNBC…

  • Michael Eric Dyson Discusses His Cover Story on Hillary Clinton

    Michael Eric Dyson Discusses His Cover Story on Hillary Clinton The New Republic Minutes 2015-11-27 Mikaela Lefrak, Associate Editor “Obama will probably go down in history as one of the greatest presidents we’ve had. I just don’t think that the issue of race will earn him those kudos.” That’s professor Michael Eric Dyson’s opinion on…

  • President Obama & Marilynne Robinson: A Conversation in Iowa

    President Obama & Marilynne Robinson: A Conversation in Iowa The New York Review of Books 2015-11-05 President Barack Obama Marilynne Robinson President Obama and Marilynne Robinson at the Iowa State Library, Des Moines, September 2015 (Pete Souza/White House) The following conversation between President Obama and Marilynne Robinson was conducted in Des Moines, Iowa, on September…

  • A Change Has Come: Race, Politics, and the Path to the Obama Presidency

    A Change Has Come: Race, Politics, and the Path to the Obama Presidency Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race Volume 6, Issue 01, Spring 2009 pages 1-14 DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X09090018 Lawrence D. Bobo, W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences Harvard University Michael C. Dawson, John D. MacArthur Professor of Political…

  • What Woodrow Wilson Cost My Grandfather

    What Woodrow Wilson Cost My Grandfather The New York Times 2015-11-25 Gordon J. Davis, Partner Venable, LLP,  New York, New York John Abraham Davis, center, and his family at their farm in the early 1900s. Credit Courtesy of the Davis Family OVER the last week, a growing number of students at Princeton have demanded that…