Mixed Race Studies

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  • Mixed Race 3.0: Risk and Reward in the Digital Age

    Mixed Race 3.0: Risk and Reward in the Digital Age USC Annenberg Press 2015-01-30 113 pages ISBN: 9781625175564 Edited by: Ulli K. Ryder Department of Gender and Women’s Studies University of Rhode Island Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Clinical Assistant Professor Annenberg School for Communication and Jounalism University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California Have you been…

  • Settlers, Servants and Slaves: Aboriginal and European Children in Nineteenth-century Western Australia

    Settlers, Servants and Slaves: Aboriginal and European Children in Nineteenth-century Western Australia University of Western Australia Publishing 2002-08-31 246 pages 207 x 139 mm ISBN: 978-1876268732 Penelope Hetherington Settlers, Servants and Slaves documents the exploitation of both Aboriginal and European children by the settler elite of nineteenth-century Western Australia. In a struggling colony desperately short…

  • When you say you ‘don’t see race’, you’re ignoring racism, not helping to solve it

    When you say you ‘don’t see race’, you’re ignoring racism, not helping to solve it The Guardian 2015-01-26 Zach Stafford Race is such an ingrained social construct that even blind people can ‘see’ it. To pretend it doesn’t exist to you erases the experiences of black people People love to tell me that they often…

  • Checking Boxes: A close look at mixed-race identity and the law

    Checking Boxes: A close look at mixed-race identity and the law Macomb County Leagal News Mt. Clemens, Michgan 2015-02-05 Jenny Whalen, ‎Web Communications Specialist School of Law University of Michigan Professor Martha S. Jones has long struggled with the idea of checking more than one box. Her reluctance to do so has been influenced by…

  • The Garifuna Exodus

    The Garifuna Exodus Latino USA 2015-01-23 Maria Hinojosa, Executive Producer & Anchor Marlon Bishop, Producer For centuries, the Garifuna people — descendents of both Africans and indigenous Arawak people from the Caribbean — have lived peacefully in seaside towns on the North Coast of Honduras. There’s always been a trickle of migration from the community…

  • Penn PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts to Receive APA’s 2015 Fuller Award

    Penn PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts to Receive APA’s 2015 Fuller Award Penn News University of Pennsylvania 2015-01-23 Jacquie Posey, Media Contact Telephone: 215-898-6460 The American Psychiatric Association has named University of Pennsylvania professor Dorothy Roberts recipient of the 2015 Solomon Carter Fuller Award in recognition of her demonstrated leadership and exceptional achievements. The award honors…

  • Mixed Race People Are Changing The Face Of America

    Mixed Race People Are Changing The Face Of America Huffington Post Live 2013-10-04 Hosted by: Ahmed Shihab-Eldin Guests: Marvin Russell @marvinrussell (Chicago, IL) CEO of The Ocean Agency Sarah Willie-LeBreton (Swarthmore, PA) Professor of Sociology at Swarthmore College Rabbi Steven Carr Reuben (New York, NY) Author of “There’s an Easter Egg on Your Seder Plate”…

  • A Dialogue on Institutional Colorism and Moving Toward Healing with Dr. Yaba Blay

    A Dialogue on Institutional Colorism and Moving Toward Healing with Dr. Yaba Blay For Harriet 2015-01-28 Kimberly Foster, Editor-in-Chief/Publisher For Harriet is nearly five years old, and I’ve learned there are a few topics that are sure to spark contentious debate. Colorism is one of them. Discussions on colorism provoke strong feelings in Black women,…

  • The Multiple Meanings of Coloured Identity in South Africa

    The Multiple Meanings of Coloured Identity in South Africa Africa Insight Volume 42, Number 1 (2012) Theodore Petrus, Lecturer Department of Sociology & Anthropology Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa Wendy Isaacs-Martin, Political & Governmental Studies Fellow Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa In post-1994, South African identity has taken centre…

  • The Born Identity: Race & Identity in the Multiracial Community

    The Born Identity: Race & Identity in the Multiracial Community Districtly Speaking Mt. Pleasant Neighborhood Library 3160 16th Street, Northwest Washington, D.C. 20010 Thursday, 2015-01-29, 18:30-20:00 EST (Local Time) “Race is not a universal concept — the definitions we go by are often arbitrary, uniquely American and undergo dramatic shifts from one generation to the…