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  • So, What Are You… Anyway?: 2013 Conference on Multiracial Identity

    So, What Are You… Anyway?: 2013 Conference on Multiracial Identity Hosted by the Harvard College Half-Asian People’s Association Harvard University 2013-04-05 through 2013-04-06 The Harvard Half-Asian People’s Association will host its fifth annual conference on mixed-race politics and identity issues, “So…What Are You, Anyway?” (SWAYA) on Friday, April 5, 2013 and Saturday, April 6, 2013…

  • Opinion: Why Future Politicians Must Embrace Our Composite Nation

    Opinion: Why Future Politicians Must Embrace Our Composite Nation The Next America: How Demography Shapes the National Agenda National Journal 2012-11-14 Benjamin Todd Jealous, President and CEO National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) America is becoming browner—and the ability to harness the changing electorate has become the gold standard for any aspiring…

  • Teaching & Learning Guide for: Multiracial Americans: Racial Identity Choices and Implications for the Collection of Race Data

    This guide accompanies the following article: Nikki Khanna, ‘Multiracial Americans: Racial Identity Choices and Implications for the Collection of Race Data’, Sociology Compass 6/4 (2012): 316–331, 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2011.00454.x.

  • “Multiracial” Today, but “What” Tomorrow? The Malleability of Racial Identification Over Time

    “Multiracial” Today, but “What” Tomorrow? The Malleability of Racial Identification Over Time Paper presented at the Population Association of America 2005 Annual Meeting 2005-03-31 through 2005-04-02 Philladelphia, Pennsylvania 27 pages Jamie Mihoko Doyle Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology University of Pennsylvania Grace Kao, Professor of Sociology, Education, and Asian American Studies University of Pennsylvania We…

  • When You’re Mixed Race, Just One Box Is Not Enough

    When You’re Mixed Race, Just One Box Is Not Enough The Race Card Project: Six-Word Essays National Public Radio 2013-04-02 NPR continues a series of conversations about The Race Card Project, where thousands of people have submitted their thoughts on race and cultural identity in six words. Every so often NPR Host/Special Correspondent Michele Norris…

  • Playing Games with Race

    NOTE: This article expands on a comment on Prof. Hortense Spillers’ article “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s, Too” published on The Feminist Wire on February 25, 2011. Omar Ricks would like to thank Prof. Spillers for inviting his contribution to The Feminist Wire.

  • Obama and the Elusive Idea of Race

    Obama and the Elusive Idea of Race The Root 2011-04-26 Mary C. Curtis Scientists increasingly conclude that ethnicity cannot be defined scientifically, but that hasn’t stopped the racists, the Birthers and the confused from casting their insecurities onto the president. It’s not surprising to get involved in a heated discussion about race when you’re strolling…

  • Mama’s Baby, Papa’s, Too

    …We’ve been here before, and that is the disappointment. Reminded in the course of Saulny’s treatment that terms like “mulatto,” “once tinged with shame…is enjoying a comeback in some young circles” (1), one wonders what all the brouhaha about “post-racial” identity actually means, unless the new racialist reflexes are intended to be taken as parodic…

  • The 1850 census marked a watershed in census-taking in several ways…

    The 1850 census marked a watershed in census-taking in several ways. For our purposes, a large part of its significance rests in the introduction of the “mulatto” category and the reasons for its introduction. This category was added not because of demographic shifts, but because of the lobbying efforts of race scientists and the willingness…

  • One Drop of Love: A Multimedia Solo Performance on Racial Identity by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni at University of Maryland

    One Drop of Love: A Multimedia Solo Performance on Racial Identity by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni at University of Maryland University of Maryland, College Park The Stamp (Adele H. Stamp Student Union) [Directions] Atrium Room Friday, 2013-03-29, 17:00-19:30 EDT (Local Time) Sponsored by the Multiracial Biracial Student Association (MBSA), Office of Multicultural Involvement and Community Advocacy…