Mixed Race Studies

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  • Organizing 101: A Mixed-Race Feminist in Movements for Social Justice

    Organizing 101: A Mixed-Race Feminist in Movements for Social Justice Chapter in: Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism Seal Press April 2002 432 pages ISBN-10: 1580050670 ISBN-13: 9781580050678 Edited by: Daisy Hernandez Bushara Rehman Foreword by: Cherríe Moraga Chapter Author: Lisa Weiner-Mahfuz pages 29-39 I have vivid memories of celebrating the holidays…

  • MASC’s Thomas Lopez Discusses Mixed Latina/o Identity

    MASC’s Thomas Lopez Discusses Mixed Latina/o Identity Mixed Race Radio Wednesday, 2012-10-17, 16:00Z (12:00 EDT, 09:00 PDT, 17:00 BST) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host Thomas Lopez Thomas Lopez continues to amaze me. He has held various positions with Multiracial Americans of Southern California (MASC), Los Angeles, CA since 1995 and continues to organize numerous conferences, workshops…

  • Barack X

    Barack X The New Yorker 2012-10-08 Jelani Cobb, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Institute of African American Studies University of Connecticut 1. It’s mid-March in Harlem and the streets are an improvised urban bazaar. Young men hawk umbrellas, vintage vinyl, and knit caps. The aromas of curry and fried plantains waft out…

  • American Dilemma: The Negro problem and Modern Democracy

    American Dilemma: The Negro problem and Modern Democracy Harper and Brothers Publishing 1944 822 pages Gunnar Myrdal (1898-1987) With the Assistance of Richard Sterner and Arnold Rose This landmark effort to understand African-American people in the New World provides deep insight into the contradictions of American democracy as well as a study of a people…

  • Anomaly – Film Screening and Performance

    Anomaly – Film Screening and Performance Bentley University Wilder Pavilion – Adamian Academic Center Waltham, Massachusetts Wednesday, 2012-10-24, 18:30 EDT (Local Time) Jessica Chen Drammeh, Director/Producer Sharon Smith, Co-Producer Anomaly is an award-winning documentary that provides a thought-provoking look at multiracial identity by combining personal narratives with the larger drama of mixed race in American…

  • The Durability of Race

    The Durability of Race RaceFiles: On Race and Racism in our Politics and Daily Lives 2012-10-05 Scot Nakagawa, Senior Partner ChangeLab There’s been a lot of talk lately about the death of racism. Many believe that as the global demographics change and Generation Y rises, racism will fade in significance. Some even suggest that what…

  • The Biopolitics of Mixing: Thai Multiracialities and Haunted Ascendancies

    Debates over who belongs in Europe and who doesn’t increasingly speak the language of mixing, but how are the figures commonly described as ‘mixed’ actually embodied? “The Biopolitics of Mixing” invites us to reckon with the spectres of pathologization past and present, placing the celebration of mixing beside moral panics over terrorism and trafficking and…

  • 2nd Annual: What Are You?

    2nd Annual: What Are You? Brooklyn Historical Society Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations 2012-10-04, 19:00 EDT (Local Time) Let’s talk about race and ethnicity, and where we’re from (or where we’re from from); how we express our own multicultural identities, and how others perceive us. Panelists will start the conversation and we hope you’ll join in.…

  • The Obamas and a (Post) Racial America?

    The Obamas and a (Post) Racial America? Oxford University Press January 2011 336 pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 Hardback ISBN13: 9780199735204; ISBN10: 0199735204 Edited by Gregory Parks, Assistant Professor of Law Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina Matthew Hughey, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Connecticut The United States has taken a long and winding…

  • Blood Flowed Here Before Water Did

    Blood Flowed Here Before Water Did Trinidad Express 2012-09-14 Jan Westmaas The writer continues his series on Peru and South Africa after visits to these countries in July and August I’ve just read this morning in the daily press a story about Spanish energy company Repsol’s major oil and natural gas find in the Peruvian…