Category: New Media

  • Letter to the Editor: Multi-ethnic clubs benefit community Daily Bruin University of California, Los Angeles 2010-10-18 Thomas Lopez, Alumnus University of California, Berkeley What’s in a name? Answering that question can be difficult for some multiracial students. So often throughout history, names have been given for us, many of them pejorative, that it becomes difficult…

  • Neither Strange Nor Familiar: Contemporary Approaches to Hybridity Location: TBD Toronto, Canada 2010-10-22 through 2010-10-23 Kenote Speaker Stephan Palmié, Professor of Anthroplogy University of Chicago We are pleased and excited to announce this interdisciplinary conference. The study of identity, whether from a sociological, ethnographic, anthropological or historical perspective, has been a widely debated topic. As…

  • Saint Augustine’s College senior’s documentary wins award at film festival Saint Augustine’s College, Raleigh, North Carolina Press Release 2010-10-19 LaToya Sutton, Communications Specialist Eric Barstow’s short documentary, “Bi/Racial Me,” won the “Best Short Documentary” award at the Urban Mediamakers Film Festival, held October. 14-17, [2010] in Norcross, Georgia The film was an official film selection festival.…

  • Children of Uncertain Fortune: Mixed-Race Migration from the West Indies to Britain, 1750-1820 The University of Michigan 2010 481 pages Daniel Alan Livesay, Assistant Professor of History Drury University, Springfield, Missouri A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (History) in The University of Michigan 2010 This dissertation shows…

  • Mapping genes that predict treatment outcome in admixed populations The Pharmacogenomics Journal Published Online: 2010-10-05 DOI: 10.1038/tpj.2010.71 Tesfaye Mersha Baye, Assistant Professor University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Russell Alan Wilke, Associate Professor of Medicine Vanderbilt University Medical Center There is great interest in characterizing the genetic architecture underlying drug response. For many drugs, gene-based…

  • CeCe Ridder is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Higher Education Administration at The University of Texas at Austin and is recruiting University of Texas at Austin students for a research study about Black-White Multiracial college students.  She is seeking registered students at UT Austin in the third or fourth year of study and have one parent…

  • Univ. changes categories for reporting race, ethnicity Diamondback Online The University of Maryland’s Independent Daily Student Newspaper 2010-10-11 Leyla Korkut Latest data expected to reflect true demographic makeup, but may reduce minority funding The university will release new demographic data this week that administrators said will more accurately convey the diversity of this university. But…

  • New multiracial category has effects nationally, few at Smith The Smith College Sophian Northampton, Massachusetts 2010-09-30 Gina Charusombat While Smith students speculate about the lack of diversity across disciplines of study, colleges and universities across the U.S. continue to track diversity on their campuses. On Sept. 19, the Chronicle of Higher Education revealed that the…

  • “Not belonging” to any single ethnic group and its influence on self-identity formation: An exploratory, qualitative study of the multiracial experience California Institute of Integral Studies, San Fransisco 2010 150 pages AAT 3407199 ISBN: 9781109754452 Malia Joiner A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the California Institute of Integral Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the…

  • Bruno Mars in Ascension New York Times 2010-10-05 Jon Caramanica When history books address the pop seismology of the early 21st century, a chapter will have to be set aside for a discussion of the Sheraton Waikiki in the late 1980s. That’s where Bruno Mars, then just a few years old, performed as part of…