Category: Audio

  • Race In The Northwest: Hood River Man Learns His Family’s Surprising Truth Oregon Public Broadcasting 2016-12-07 Anna Griffin, News Director Hood River writer and cidermaker John Metta. Anna Griffin/OPB Hood River, Oregon—John Metta grew up thinking of himself as mixed race: His mother was white. His father’s side of the family proudly proclaimed themselves a blend of…

  • Patrick Wolfe: Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race New Books Network 2016-11-07 Lynette Russell, Professor Monash University, Australia Aziz Rana, Professor of Law Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Widely known for his pioneering work in the field of settler colonial studies, Patrick Wolfe advanced the theory that settler colonialism was, “a structure, not an event.”…

  • Carina E. Ray: Crossing the Color Line: Race, Sex, and the Contested Politics of Colonialism in Ghana [Interview] New Books Network 2016-10-07 Dawne Curry, Associate Professor of History and Ethnic Studies University of Nebraska, Lincoln In Crossing the Color Line: Race, Sex, and the Contested Politics of Colonialism in Ghana (Ohio University Press, 2015), Carina…

  • You took a DNA test and it says you are Native American. So what? PRI’s The World Public Radio International 2016-11-24 Andrea Crossan, Senior Producer Boston, Massachusetts Have you been tempted to try one of those genetic testing kits, like the ones sold by Ancestry.com or 23andme.com? Maybe you’ve seen a commercial featuring Kim Trujillo.…

  • Terry and Judy – A Mixed Race Journey The listening project: It’s surprising what you hear when you listen BBC Radio 4 2016-11-23, 10:55Z Fi Glover, Presenter Marya Burgess, Producer Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a mixed race couple who met at a time when their relationship was a lot more unusual than it…

  • The Latinos Of Asia Think KERA Dallas, Texas 2016-11-14 Krys Boyd, Host and Managing Editor Filipino Americans are classified by the U.S. Census as Asian. But because of Spanish colonialism in the Philippines, many Filipinos also feel part Latino. This hour, we’ll talk about how skin color, history and other factors contribute to cultural identity…

  • Growing up Indigenous when you don’t look it Unreserved CBC Radio 2016-11-06 Rosanna Deerchild, Host From r: Trevor Jang, Julie Daum, and Daniel Bear. (Supplied) Has anyone ever asked you where you come from? Or what your ethnic background is? Ethnicity and how the world perceives you don’t always go together. Which presents a challenge…

  • TriPod Mythbusters: Quadroon Balls And Plaçage Tripod WWNO 89.9 FM New Orleans, Louisiana 2016-09-22 Laine Kaplan-Levenson, Host There is a common myth told about 19th-century New Orleans. It goes something like this: Imagine you’re in an elegant dance hall in New Orleans in the early 1800s. Looking around, you see a large group of white men and free…

  • Britain’s Black Past BBC Radio 4 2016-10-03 The Invisible Presence Professor Gretchen Gerzina explores a largely unknown past – the lives of black people who settled in Britain in the 18th and early 19th centuries. She reveals a startling paradox – although Britain was at the heart of a thriving slave trade, it was still…

  • How do multiracial Asian people fit into discussions around race? The Record KUOW.org 94.9 FM | Seattle News & Information 2016-09-29 Caroline Chamberlain, Acquisitions Producer Bill Radke, Host Bill Radke sits down with Sharon H. Chang, author of “Raising Mixed Race: Multiracial Asian Children in a Post-Racial World.” She explains why it’s important to study the…