Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Category: Social Science
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Shame on CNN: A commentary by Susan Graham Project RACE 2012-12-10 Susan Graham, Executive Director CNN aired a show hosted by Soledad O’Brien Sunday called “Who is Black in America?” I have been disgusted with the public misunderstanding of multiracial people on so called news shows in the past, but this one wins the prize…
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Black (Or Not) Like Me: Thoughts on CNN’s Black in America 5 The Huffington Post 2012-12-10 Smokey Fontaine, Chief Content Officer Interactive One I know who my colleagues think I am. I’m pretty sure they’ve accepted me as the lightest Black dude in the office. My job demands that I constantly engage co-workers around racial…
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Why? CNN’s “Black in America” and NPR’s “State of the Re:Union” Offer Up a Potpourri of Tragic Mulattoes Before a National Audience We Are Respectable Negroes 2012-12-10 Chauncey DeVega Watching CNN, and listening to NPR on Sunday night, reminded me that Imitation of Life was not just a movie or a play; for many of…
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Soledad O’Brien and three of the interview subjects from her docu discuss the fifth installment of CNN’s Black in America series Starting Point with Soledad O’Brien Cable News Network (CNN) 2012-12-10 Soledad O’Brien, Host The fifth installment of CNN’s Black in America Series focused on the question, “Who is black in America?” That single, seemingly…
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CNN’s Soledad O’Brien keeps own story under wraps while exploring colorism in “Who is Black in America? Tampa Bay Times The Feed 2012-12-07 Eric Deggans, TV/Media Critic More than any other, one moment crystallizes the confusing, sometimes comically absurd contortions built up around racial identity unveiled in CNN’s latest documentary Who Is Black in America?…
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QUESTION: How might social policies change as more Americans identify themselves as “multiracial”?
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A Beautiful Blend Center for Asian American Media 2004 27 minutes DVD David Hosley, Producer KVIE-TV In the decades following the Supreme Court’s 1967 decision to end laws making interracial marriage illegal, the United States has witnessed a remarkable increase in the number of mixed-race couples and of the multi-ethnic children born to them. As…
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Mixed-race Brits rising fast as prejudice wanes The Sunday Times 2012-12-09 Dipesh Gadher, Deputy News Editor MIXED-RACE Britons, epitomised by Jessica Ennis, the Olympic heptathlon champion, are among the nation’s fastest-growing ethnic-minority groups, according to official figures. New data from the 2011 census to be published on Tuesday is expected to show that at least…
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Who Is Black In America? Soledad O’Brien, CNN Find Out In ‘BIA 5’ NewsOne: For Black America 2012-12-07 Navarrow Wright This Sunday at 8 p.m., CNN airs its fifth installment of the “Black In America” series, which is hosted by Soledad O’Brien. In this episode, O’Brien asks the question, “Who is Black in America?” as…
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Why isn’t ‘colorism’ gone? Cable News Network (CNN) 2012-12-05 Has “colorism” disappeared? CNN’s Soledad O’Brien asks author and Activist Tim Wise.