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  • The Debate: Multiracial Identity

    The Debate: Multiracial Identity The Agenda with Steve Paikin TVO (TV Ontario) Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2011-07-22, 20:00 EDT (Local Time) Also at: 2011-07-25, 05:00 EDT (Local Time) Piya Chattopadhyay, Host Guests (in order of appearance) Rainier Spencer, Director of the Afro-American Studies Program University of Nevada, Las Vegas (Author of three books on multiracialism including, Reproducing Race:…

  • Fix the Census’ Archaic Racial Categories

    Fix the Census’ Archaic Racial Categories The New York Times 2013-08-21 Kenneth Prewitt, Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs Columbia University Also former director of the U.S. Census Bureau from 1998 to 2001 and author of What Is Your Race? The Census and Our Flawed Efforts to Classify Americans (Princeton University Press, 2013) Starting in 1790, and…

  • White-Race Problems: White Hispanic, White Black, Geraldo Rivera

    White-Race Problems: White Hispanic, White Black, Geraldo Rivera Living Anthropologically: Anthropology – Understanding – Possibility 2013-07-25 Jason Antrosio, Associate Professor of Anthropology Hartwick College, Oneonta, New York A strange meme circulates, apparently fueled by Geraldo Rivera’s White Hispanic, Yellow Journalism. It goes like this: George Zimmerman is not really white, he’s Hispanic, and so the…

  • Race Remixed? — Probationary Whites and a Racism Reality Check

    Race Remixed? — Probationary Whites and a Racism Reality Check Living Anthropologically: Anthropology – Understanding – Possibility 2011-30-28 (Updated July 2013) Jason Antrosio, Associate Professor of Anthropology Hartwick College, Oneonta, New York This is an update to the original article, “Race Remixed?” from March 28, 2011. Update July 2013: In the wake of Trayvon Martin…

  • Henry Samuel, Frankfort Barber and Free Man of Color

    Henry Samuel, Frankfort Barber and Free Man of Color Random Thoughts on History: My musings on American, African American, Southern, Civil War, Reconstruction, and Public History topics and books 2013-03-19 Tim Talbott Frankfort, Kentucky Recently reading Knights of the Razor: Black Barbers in Slavery and Freedom got me to wondering if Frankfort had any black…

  • “One Drop of Love” is Fanshen’s Story & She’s Sticking To It

    “One Drop of Love” is Fanshen’s Story & She’s Sticking To It Mixed Race Radio Blog Talk Radio 2013-07-17, 16:00Z (12:00 EDT) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, Playwright, Producer, Actress, Educator Join us on today’s episode of Mixed Race Radio as we meet award-winning actor, producer and educator, Fanshen Cox. Fanshen is currently touring the…

  • He Checked That Box, But How Black is Obama?

    He Checked That Box, But How Black is Obama? Politic365: From Your Point of View 2013-07-12 William Reed, Head The Business Exchange Network “If you had a choice of color, which one would you choose, my brother?” – Curtis Mayfield, 1969 In the official U.S. 2010 head count, President Barack Obama provided one answer to…

  • A Postracial Society or A Diversity Paradox? Race, Immigration, and Multiraciality in the Twenty-First Century

    A Postracial Society or A Diversity Paradox? Race, Immigration, and Multiraciality in the Twenty-First Century Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race Volume 9, Issue 2, Fall 2012 pages 419-437 DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X12000161 Jennifer Lee, Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Frank D. Bean, Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine At the…

  • “The One and Only Cheerios”~ The “NEW” American Family?

    “The One and Only Cheerios”~ The “NEW” American Family? Mixed Race Radio Blog Talk Radio 2013-07-10, 16:00Z (12:00 EDT) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host Join us on Wednesday July 10th, 2013 as we explore the newest General Mills Cheerios commercial that recently debuted. We will discuss the backlash and speak with an all-star guest line-up while…

  • I Am What I Say I Am

    I Am What I Say I Am Time Magazine 2001-03-18 Lise Funderburg According to Russell (my personal trainer by night, a lawyer by day, and a philosopher by disposition), I have white calves. Not white as in pasty, but as in Caucasian. My calves are–how to put it?–substantial, and their shape not only pegs me…