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  • Young Afro Latinos straddle both cultures

    Young Afro Latinos straddle both cultures Our Weekly: Our Truth, Our Voice Los Angeles, California 2010-09-23 Manny Otiko Hispanic heritage month celebrated Sept. 15-Oct. 15 When 2nd Lt. Emily Perez was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq, she became the first female African American officer to die in combat. Perez, an outstanding West Point…

  • Statehood Issue Stirs Passions About Puerto Rican Identity

    Statehood Issue Stirs Passions About Puerto Rican Identity Puerto Rico: Unsettled Territory Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication Arizona State University 2012-10-29 Kailey Latham Cronkite Borderlands Initiative SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — What does it mean to be Puerto Rican? For over 500 years, the people of this island have struggled with the…

  • Fade to Black and White: Interracial Images in Popular Culture

    There is no teasing apart what interracial couples think of themselves from what society shows them about themselves. Following on her earlier ground-breaking study of the social worlds of interracial couples, Erica Chito Childs considers the larger context of social messages, conveyed by the media, that inform how we think about love across the color…

  • Hardships for Filipino mixed-race children

    Hardships for Filipino mixed-race children Al Jazeera 2013-02-26 Jamela Alindogan Thousands of mixed-race children grow up without their fathers in the Philippines. Most of them are of Korean or American descent. Many often end up living on the streets without any support. Al Jazeera’s Jamela Alindogan reports from Manila.

  • POWER: Post-racial Canada still a dream

    POWER: Post-racial Canada still a dream The Chronicle Herald Halifax, Nova Scotia 2013-03-17 Megan Power And we’re reluctant to face it, says Hill Calling Canada a multicultural paradise is simply delusional, says author Lawrence Hill.   He made his comments prior to a public reading in Halifax last week, in which he was candid and…

  • Kiss Me, I’m 1/16 Irish: African-, Irish-, and the Hyphenated-Americans

    Kiss Me, I’m 1/16 Irish: African-, Irish-, and the Hyphenated-Americans The Huffington Post 2013-03-15 Theodore Johnson, Op-Ed Columnist, 2012 White House Fellow Years ago, I spent Saint Patrick’s Day in an Irish pub singing ditties with a restaurant full of my newest friends—and left feeling a little green with envy. The Irish-American traditions and fare…

  • Diversity triumph in 2010 Rose of Tralee

    Dr. Zélie Asava considers the contest’s celebration of the ‘new Irish’

  • (Mixed) Racial formation in Aotearoa/New Zealand: framing biculturalism and ‘mixed race’ through categorisation

    (Mixed) Racial formation in Aotearoa/New Zealand: framing biculturalism and ‘mixed race’ through categorisation Kotuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online Volume 7, Issue 1, (May 2012) DOI: 10.1080/1177083X.2012.670650 pages 1-13 Zarine L. Rocha, Research Scholar Department of Sociology National University of Singapore This paper explores racial formation in Aotearoa/New Zealand, and the impacts of…

  • Demographic Demagoguery: Gregory Rodriguez’s views on race and the census just don’t add up

    Demographic Demagoguery: Gregory Rodriguez’s views on race and the census just don’t add up MixedRaceStudies.org 2011-04-08 Steven F. Riley Gregory Rodriguez’s editorial titled “President Obama: Black and more so” or “President Obama: At odds with clear demographic trends toward multiracial pride” in the April 4, 2011 edition of the Los Angeles Times reveals the destructive hubris…

  • President Obama: Black and more so

    President Obama: Black and more so Los Angeles Times 2011-04-04 Gregory Rodriguez By checking ‘black’ as his race on the census form, President Obama is at odds with clear demographic trends toward multiracial pride. The number of Americans identifying as both white and black jumped 134% in 10 years. It could have been a historic…