Category: Campus Life

  • South Bend high school student behind race-based signs speaks out WNDU TV 16 South Bend, Indiana 2016-02-12 A local high school student says he’s in trouble after he and two other students posted some controversial signs at Riley High School. The signs stated “COLORED ONLY” and “WHITES ONLY,” and they were placed above water fountains…

  • “In sixth grade, a lot of people thought I was Hispanic or white because I have chocolate hair, like it’s not black hair. My eyes aren’t as prominent,” Ahlberg, now in eighth grade, said. “My mom is Taiwanese and my dad is half Swedish.”

  • Meet the New Student Activists The New York Times 2016-02-01 As told to Abby Ellin Young African-Americans and their allies are demanding change, leading people of all backgrounds to talk about issues that have lain dormant for decades. What do they want? Inclusion and representation — now. Here, seven students talk about the problems, the…

  • In “The Alexander Litany,” intersectionality collides with campus North by Northwestern 2016-02-03 Lauren Sonnenberg Roger Mason as Clarence, Eliott Sagay as Joseph, Grant Lewis as Jackson, Jeff Paschal as Max. Photo by Alexandria Woodson “Look into my eyes and you’ll see that fear ain’t only skin deep, at least not for me,” implored Max Alexander,…

  • Students propose multiracial peer liaison program Yale Daily News New Haven, Connecticut 2016-02-03 Monica Wang, Staff Reporter When Chandler Gregoire ’17 stepped onto Yale’s campus as a freshman more than three years ago, she was assigned two peer liaisons: one from the Afro-American Cultural Center and the other from the Asian American Cultural Center. Ethnically,…

  • Biracial Sons More Likely Than Daughters To Identify As Black NBC News 2016-02-01 Aris Folley Black-white biracial sons of interracial parents, in which one parent is black and the other is white, are more likely than their female counterparts to identify as black, according to a study found in the February issue of the American…

  • QUALLEN: Healy’s Inner Turmoil, Our Current Conflict The Hoya Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 2015-11-20 Matthew Quallen, “Hoya Historian” School of Foreign Service Last week, President DeGioia accepted a recommendation to scrub the names Mulledy and McSherry from university buildings. The names Freedom and Remembrance took their places. Mulledy and McSherry symbolized what was most odious…

  • Daughters of Interracial Couples are More Likely To Say They are Multiracial TIME Magazine 2016-01-28 Carey Wallace Study suggests it’s because they’re considered “intriguing.” One of the fastest growing racial groups in the country isn’t a single racial group–it’s people from multiracial backgrounds, the children of interracial unions. A new study has found however, that…

  • Author Junot Díaz Packs Thorne Hall Oxy Newsroom Occidental College, Los Angeles, California 2015-09-23 Media Contact: Jim Tranquada / (323) 259-2990 Marc Campos/Occidental College Ranging from profane to profound, from wisecracking to wistful, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Díaz discussed the complexities and heartbreak of race and identity in America with a capacity crowd at Occidental…

  • “Race Policy and Multiracial Americans” is the first book to look at the impact of multiracial people on race policies—where they lag behind the growing numbers of multiracial people in the U.S. and how they can be used to promote racial justice for multiracial Americans.