Mixed Race Studies

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  • Negotiating Mixed Ethnicity/Heritage Relationships Seminar

    Negotiating Mixed Ethnicity/Heritage Relationships Seminar Coventry University Centre for Communities & Social Justice Room 152, Jaguar Building Coventry, United Kingdom Wednesday, 2015-06-24, 09:45-15:15 BST (Local Time) Historically, debates about ‘mixed race’ families have centred on Black/White relations concerning issues of identity, belonging and racism affecting the partner and their children. Though these issues have not…

  • Three Unmissable Books That Can Help Us Honor Our Past

    Three Unmissable Books That Can Help Us Honor Our Past Pacific Citizen: The National Newspaper of the JACL 2015-04-30 Ryan Kenji Kuramitsu, JACL MDC Youth Representative ‘It was books,” wrote social critic James Baldwin, “that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people…

  • Will Police Killings of Blacks be the Defining Crisis of the Obama Presidency?

    Will Police Killings of Blacks be the Defining Crisis of the Obama Presidency? NewBlackMan (in Exile) 2015-04-24 Mark Anthony Neal, Host and Professor of African & African American Studies Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Duke University University Sociologist Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, author of the classic Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality…

  • Race and Republicanism

    Race and Republicanism Books & Ideas 2015-02-23 (Originally published in laviedesidees.fr on February 17, 2014.) Dominique Schnapper, Director of Studies École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, France Translated by (with the support of the Florence Gould Foundation): Michael C. Behrent Though race is socially constructed, it nonetheless really exists: consequently, Magali Bessone argues,…

  • One Drop of Love at New York University

    One Drop of Love at New York University New York University’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts 566 LaGuardia Place New York, New York 10012 Friday, 2015-04-17, 20:00 EDT (Local Time) One Drop of Love is a multimedia solo show written and performed by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni. It asks audiences to consider: how does our…

  • IDS 243 Race, Racism, & Human Genetics

    IDS 243 Race, Racism, & Human Genetics Willamette University Salem, Oregon Fall 2014 What accounts for human difference, and what does the biology of human variation tell us about race and the “life changes” of racial groups in contemporary society? This course examines the relationship between genes, geography, skin color and what we have come…

  • You’re the Model Minority until You’re Not

    You’re the Model Minority until You’re Not David Shih Wednesday, 2015-04-08 David Shih, Associate Professor of English University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire As a Chinese American, I know that my racial identity occupies a space in the cultural imagination somewhere between white and black. I know that white supremacy often works in my favor to…

  • White Puerto Rican Migration and the Effacement of Blackness

    White Puerto Rican Migration and the Effacement of Blackness UPLIFTT: United People for Latinos in Film, TV and Theater 2015-02-13 William Garcia t was August 2009 when I was admitted to the University of Puerto Rico in Rio Piedras and that what was when I first saw the amalgamation of a new breed of Puerto…

  • One Drop Of Love Solo Show April 15, 2015

    One Drop Of Love Solo Show April 15, 2015 Amherst Togther Presents: One Drop of Love by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni Amherst Regional Middle School Auditorium 170 Chestnut Street Amherst, Massachusetts 01002 Phone: (413) 362-1820 Wednesday, 2015-04-15, 19:00 EDT (Local Time) Admission is free and open to the public Produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon,…

  • The Trouble With Race

    The Trouble With Race Foreign Affairs March/April 2015 Gideon Rose, Editor Everybody knows that racial tensions have been at the center of American political debate in recent months, but the story of racial and ethnic division is actually a global one, with a long and tortured history. For the lead package in the March/April issue,…