Mixed Race Studies

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  • Mixed Heritage Week 2015: AIDE Presents: “What Are You?” Exploring Biracial and Multiracial Identity (DICE)

    Mixed Heritage Week 2015: AIDE Presents: “What Are You?” Exploring Biracial and Multiracial Identity (DICE) The Ohio State University Student Life Multicultural Center, Alonso Family Room 3034 Ohio Union, 1739 N. High Street Columbus, Ohio Thursday, 2015-03-26, 20:00-21:00 EDT (Local Time) This presentation will provide an overview of the changing racial demographics in the United…

  • Panel discusses effect of race in relationships in second interracial dating panel

    Panel discusses effect of race in relationships in second interracial dating panel The Daily Northwestern: Northwestern and Evanston’s Only Daily News Source Since 1881 Evanston, Illinois 2015-03-06 Emily Chin, Assistant Campus Editor Jakara Hubbard said she has been told throughout her life that her race is a problem and must be difficult to deal with.…

  • Association of Mixed Students hosts celebratory ‘Loving Week’

    Association of Mixed Students hosts celebratory ‘Loving Week’ Student Life: the independent newspaper of Washington University in St. Louis since 1878 Volume 136, Number 38 (Thursday, 2015-02-12) Page 3 Noa Yadidi, Staff Reporter Featuring speed dating, free cupcakes and a co-programmed dance, this year’s Loving Week, hosted by the Association of Mixed Students, kicked off…

  • Mixed 101: Creating a Space to Explore Mixed Race Identity

    Mixed 101: Creating a Space to Explore Mixed Race Identity Duke University Durham, North Carolina 27708 Counseling & Psych Services (CAPS) Resource Room 0010 Bryan Center – Multicultural Center Thursdays, 17:00-18:30 EST (Local Time) on February 12, 19, 26, and March 5 Marcella Wagner and Cat Goyeneche CAPS is offering a weekly group for students…

  • Obama meets with 10 unsuspecting students for hourlong roundtable

    Obama meets with 10 unsuspecting students for hourlong roundtable The Stanford Daily Stanford University, Palo Alto, California 2015-02-13 Victor Xu, Desk Editor Vicki Niu ’18 (right) was one of 10 students who participated in an hourlong roundtable with President Barack Obama on Friday afternoon. (SAM GIRVIN/The Stanford Daily) Rio LaVigne ’15 signed up to meet…

  • Dorothy Roberts: Bringing Different Perspectives into Class

    Dorothy Roberts: Bringing Different Perspectives into Class University of Pennsylvania Multimedia 2015-02-12 When Dorothy Roberts was 3 months old, she moved with her parents from Chicago to Liberia, where her mother, Iris, had worked as a young woman after leaving Jamaica. It was the first of Dorothy’s many trips abroad, and one during which her…

  • First Black Elected to Head Harvard’s Law Review

    First Black Elected to Head Harvard’s Law Review The New York Times 1990-02-06 Fox Butterfield BOSTON, Feb. 5—  The Harvard Law Review, generally considered the most prestigious in the country, elected the first black president in its 104-year history today. The job is considered the highest student position at Harvard Law School. The new president…

  • Claiming Race, Identity and a Right to Education

    Claiming Race, Identity and a Right to Education Mixed Roots Stories 2015-02-02 Briellen Griffin, Doctoral Student of sociology in Cultural and Educational Policy Studies School of Education Loyola University Chicago It is my job to think about school. Everyday, I read, write, and speak about education. I ask, and often try to answer, the big…

  • Today’s college students see no problem with multiracial relationships

    Today’s college students see no problem with multiracial relationships College USA Today 2014-01-08 Aja Frost California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Had Kim Kardashian and Kanye West gotten married 48 years ago, they would have probably been met with more policemen than paparazzi. That’s because interracial marriages weren’t legalized in the U.S. until 1967.…

  • Mixed College Students: WHO vs. WHAT

    Mixed College Students: WHO vs. WHAT NASPA: Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education 2014-12-24 Aaron Moore, Residence Life: Hall Director Ohio State University Over the past few weeks I have read Mixed: Multiracial College Students Tell Their Life Stories (2014) and was extremely pleased with the thought provoking and eye opening narratives that were shared…