Mixed Race Studies

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  • Even The Rivers: A film about educating South Korea’s multiethnic generation.

    Even The Rivers: A film about educating South Korea’s multiethnic generation. April 2013 Cindy Lou Howe, Director Matt Kelley, Producer Uikwon Lee, Researcher “In 10 years, even the rivers and mountains change.” —Korean proverb South Korea has seemingly always known dramatic change. Created after Japanese colonization and a devastating civil war, the nation became one…

  • The future of Hispanic identity

    The future of Hispanic identity Reuters 2013-05-06 Reihan Salam, Policy Analyst In an interview with ABC News this past weekend, Bill Richardson, the former governor of New Mexico and a veteran of the Clinton White House, shared his thoughts on Sen. Ted Cruz, a Republican from Texas who has been gaining prominence as a staunch,…

  • Acclaimed Actress Performs Play on Race, Love

    Acclaimed Actress Performs Play on Race, Love The Daily Nexus University of California, Santa Barbara’s Independent, Student Run Newspaper 2013-05-08 Carissa Quiambao William Zhou / Daily Nexus Award-winning actress and playwright Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni performed her one-woman play, “One Drop of Love: A Daughter’s Search for Her Father’s Racial Approval” at the UCSB Multicultural Center…

  • State of Race 2013: Presentation on the Demographics of Race

    State of Race 2013: Presentation on the Demographics of Race The Aspen Institute Washington, D.C. 2013-04-24 Presenter: Paul Taylor, Executive Vice-President and Director of Social and Demographic Trends Project Pew Research Center

  • Counting The People

    Counting The People San Francisco Call Sunday, 1890-06-01 page 6, column 7 Source: California Digital Newspaper Collection Some of the Inquires to Be Made by the Census Enumerators in June The eleventh census of the United States will be taken during the month of June. The census enumerators will begin their work on to-morrow, and…

  • Race doesn’t fit in a checkbox

    Race doesn’t fit in a checkbox Arkansas Times Little Rock, Arkansas 2013-05-02 Gene Lyons Lamentably, the Boston Marathon bombing re-opened some of the most poisonous arguments in American life. Specifically, are the Tsarnaev brothers “white”? It’s a meaningless question. Some hotheads couldn’t wait to declare all Muslims suspect. Certain thinkers on the left (David Sirota,…

  • What Is Your Race? The Census and Our Flawed Efforts to Classify Americans

    America is preoccupied with race statistics–perhaps more than any other nation. Do these statistics illuminate social reality and produce coherent social policy, or cloud that reality and confuse social policy? Does America still have a color line? Who is on which side?

  • The Rise of Ethnic Pride for Multicultural Americans

    The Rise of Ethnic Pride for Multicultural Americans TheGuyOnSports 2013-04-13 Damien Haynes In America, race and skin color are some of the most critiqued and analyzed issues within our society. For some people, growing up of mixed race decent can either be a detriment or a blessing. It can separate you from the rest of…

  • How to update census’ race question

    How to update census’ race question The Chicago Tribune 2013-05-05 Clarence Page Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Clarence Page prefers an America where diversity and unique ethnicities are celebrated, not homogenized. A notable example of how Americans fall through the cracks in census data-gathering caught my eye recently. It appeared on the black-oriented TheRoot.com website under this…

  • Solo Show at UCSB’s MultiCultural Center Examines Notions of Racial Identity

    Solo Show at UCSB’s MultiCultural Center Examines Notions of Racial Identity Public Affairs & Communications University of California, Santa Barbara News Release 2013-05-01 Contact: Andrea Estrada: 805-893-4620; George Foulsham: 805-893-3071 Multimedia performance is produced by Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Chay Carter (Santa Barbara, Calif.)—When actress and playwright Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni married the love of…