Category: Europe

  • U.Va. Poetry Professor Rita Dove’s ‘Sonata Mulattica’ to be Adapted for Film UVA Today Charlottesville, Virginia 2013-05-07 Anne E. Bromley, Associate Little did poet Rita Dove know when she published her book, “Sonata Mulattica,” that it would go beyond rescuing from obscurity a 19th-century, Afro-European violin virtuoso named George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower. Now that book of…

  • A True History Full of Romance: Mixed marriages and ethnic identity in Dutch art, news media, and popular culture (1883–1955) by Marga Altena (review) Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History Volume 15, Number 3, Winter 2014 DOI: 10.1353/cch.2014.0039 Eveline Buchheim, Researcher NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Altena, Marga, A…

  • CMRS Mixed-Race Irish Film Keynote Links Mixed Roots Stories 2015-01-11 Zélie Asava, Lecturer and Joint-Programme Director of Video and Film Dundalk Institute of Technology, Louth, Ireland Following my keynote on mixed representations in contemporary Irish cinema and television at the 2014 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference, here are some links to the films discussed… View all…

  • Reflections on Black German History Arriving In The Future: Black German Stories of Home and Exile 2015-01-10 Asoka Esuruoso & Philipp Khabo Koepsell “Unsere Geschichte nicht erst nach 1945 begann. Vor unseren Augen stand unsere Vergangenhait, die eng verknupft ist mit der kolonialien und nationalsozialistischen deutschen Geschichte.” Our history did not begin after 1945. Before…

  • Section of Creative Media lecturer to speak at Global Mixed Race conference in Chicago Dundalk Institute of Technology Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland 2014-11-10 Kathryn Moley Communications Office Dundalk Institute of Technology is incredibly proud to announce that Joint Programme Director of Video and Film in the Institute, Zélie Asava, is travelling to Chicago, to participate…

  • Dr. Rebecca King O’Riain gives opening keynote address Maynooth University Maynooth University Department of Sociology Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland 2014-11-27 Dr. Rebecca King-O’Riain gave the opening keynote address on “mixed race, transconnectivity and the global imagination” at the critical mixed race studies conference on 13 November, 2014 at DePaul, University on Chicago, USA. Her talk…

  • Ming Wong’s Imitations Transit: A Journal of Travel, Migration, and Multiculturalism in the German-speaking World Volume 9, Number 2 (2014) Special Topic: Contemporary Remediations of Race and Ethnicity in German Visual Cultures 32 pages Barbara Mennel, Associate Professor of English University of Florida The article “Ming Wong’s Imitations” analyzes the installation Life of Imitation, created…

  • When White People See Themselves With Black Skin, Something Interesting Happens The Huffington Post 2014-12-15 Anna Almendrala, Healthy Living Editor Macrina Cooper-White, Associate Science Editor The antidote to racism partly lies in empathy, or the willingness to “walk a mile in someone else’s shoes,” as the saying goes. But scientists from universities across Europe are…

  • How can you identify as Irish on the census if you are not white? Manchester Policy Blogs: Ethnicity Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity University of Manchester, United Kingdom 2014-11-27 Lindsey Garratt, Research Associate The census allows people to identify as Irish only if they are also white. What about the growing number of ethnic minority…

  • On The Cusp of Dual Identities #Dispatch: Afropean Everywhere All The Time 2014-11-10 Bani Amor Johny Pitts is a writer, photographer, and broadcast journalist interested in issues of Afro-European identity. He won a Decibel Penguin Prize for a short story included in the ‘The Map of Me’; a Penguin books anthology about mixed-race identity. He…