Mixed Race Studies

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  • Mirror, Mirror – Who Is that Woman on TV?

    Mirror, Mirror – Who Is that Woman on TV? Inter Press Service News Agency 2013-10-21 Fabiana Frayssinet RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 21 2013 (IPS) – Carla Vilas Boas is of mixed-race descent – African, European and indigenous – like a majority of the population of Brazil. But she spends hours straightening her hair, trying to…

  • Blood: The Stuff of Life

    Blood: The Stuff of Life House of Anansi Press 2013-10-26 272 pages 5 x 8 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-77089-322-1 eBook ISBN: 978-1-77089-324-5 Lawrence Hill In this year’s CBC Massey Lectures, bestselling author Lawrence Hill offers a provocative examination of the scientific and social history of blood, and on the ways that it unites and divides us…

  • Racial Democracy: The Sociological History of a Concept

    Racial Democracy: The Sociological History of a Concept Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 2013-02-15 Antonio Sergio Guimarães, Professor of Sociology Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil I will examine the coining, the uses, and meanings of the expression “racial democracy” from the 1930’s onwards including…

  • Reading Series: Quantifying Bloodlines

    Reading Series: Quantifying Bloodlines Brooklyn Historical Society Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations Othmer Library Saturdays, 2013-11-16, 2013-12-07 and 2014-01-25; 15:00-18:00 EST (Local Time) Quantifying Bloodlines is a monthly reading group organized by anthropologist and oral historian Jennifer Scott.  Join others interested in exploring the relationship between biology and race, as we discuss three widely acclaimed books.…

  • Mixing Race, Risk, and Reward in the Digital Age (Sawyer Seminar IV)

    Mixing Race, Risk, and Reward in the Digital Age University of Southern California Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Center for Japanese Religions and Culture University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library (DML), East Asian Seminar Room: 110C 2013-11-05, 13:00-17:00 PST (Local Time) USC Conference Convenors: Duncan Williams, Associate Professor of Religion…

  • Dr. Yaba Blay on shifting the lens on race

    Dr. Yaba Blay on shifting the lens on race Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane WHYY 90.9 FM Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2013-10-30 Who is black? And who is not? “Mixed/Jamerian,” “Black/Latina,” “Appalachian African American” are examples of how some people of color describe themselves. Drexel University Africana Studies professor Dr. Yaba Blay explores the nuances of the…

  • TEDxHampshireCollege–Jay Smooth: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Discussing Race

    TEDxHampshireCollege–Jay Smooth: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Discussing Race TEDx Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts 2011-11-15 Jay Smooth is host of New York’s longest running hip-hop radio show, the Underground Railroad on WBAI 99.5 FM in NY, and is an acclaimed commentator on politics and culture. In this talk, he discusses the sometimes…

  • Is It Time to Do Away With The ‘One-Drop’ Rule?

    Is It Time to Do Away With The ‘One-Drop’ Rule? Clutch 2013-07-10 Britni Danielle Los Angeles Conversations about race in America can lead to never-ending discussions, hurt feelings, and sometimes even breakthroughs. Blame it on our complicated past of slavery, racism, and legalized prejudice, but even approaching a frank discussion about race in this country…

  • Cuba is White, Black and Mixed Race Because it is Diverse

    Cuba is White, Black and Mixed Race Because it is Diverse Havana Times: open-minded writing from Cuba 2013-10-22 Dmitri Prieto Agrarian University of Havana HAVANA TIMES — Recently, on the eve of October 10, a Cuban national holiday commemorating the date (in 1868) in which Cuban landowner Carlos Manuel de Cespedes and his retinue of…

  • Growing Up Black in American Apartheid – Ford Pt1

    Growing Up Black in American Apartheid – Ford Pt1 Reality Asserts Itself The Real News Network 2013-10-23 Paul Jay, Host Glen Ford, Executive Editor Black Agenda Report On Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay: Glen Ford, Executive Editor of Black Agenda Report, tells his story as a red-diaper baby, growing up facing racism in the…