Category: New Media

  • CCIE presents Cedar & Bamboo – Film Première and Panel Discussion University of British Columbia, Point Grey Campus UBC First Nations Longhouse Thursday, 2010-10-14, 12:00-14:30 (Local Time) Sponsored by the Centre for Culture, Identity and Education (CCIE). There are numerous First Nations in what is now British Columbia and Chinese people arrived on BC’s shores…

  • Soul Search The Post Cork, Ireland 2010-09-05 Nadine O’Regan When poet and novelist Jackie Kay started the search for her birth parents, she didn’t realise how traumatic a journey it would be, though she doesn’t regret doing it. Jackie Kay met her birth father for the first time in a hotel room in Abuja, Nigeria,…

  • AMCV 1611J – Sex, Love, Race: Miscegenation, Mixed Race and Interracial Relations Brown University Fall 2010 Ulli K. Ryder This class will explore the conditions and consequences for crossing racial boundaries in North America. We will take a multidisciplinary approach, exploring literary, anthropological, and historical writings along with several feature and documentary film treatments of…

  • Running Through the Trenches: Or, an Introduction to the Undead Culture Wars and Dead Serious Identity Politics Journal of Communication Inquiry Volume 34, Number 3 (July 2010) pages 210-253 Catherine R. Squires, Cowles Professor of Journalism, Diversity and Equality University of Minnesota The events of the 2008 election continue to spark prognostications that we live…

  • Multiracial College Students: Understanding Interpersonal Self-Concept in the First Year The University of Michigan 2010 151 pages Mark Allen Kamimura A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Education) in The University of Michigan 2010 This purpose of this study was to explore the differences between mixed…

  • Texting Obama: Poetics/Politics/Popular Culture Sponsored by English Research Institute, the Manchester Writing School at MMU and The Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences Research 2010-09-07 through 2010-09-10 Texting Obama: Poetics/Politics/Popular Culture is an Interdisciplinary Humanities and Social Sciences Conference, mapping and exploring the specific historical, political and cultural climates in which Obama(’s) texts operate. Barack…

  • ‘It’s like I’m part of every race’ The Straits Times Malaysia 2010-08-08 Edora Mayangsari Lopez, 18 Eurasian-Malay The psychology student at the Management Development Institute of Singapore has a Eurasian father and a Malay-Javanese mother. Both of them are Singaporeans. She is the younger of two children and has relatives in Europe, Australia, Malaysia and…

  • Perceptions, Representation, and Identity Development of Multiracial Students in American Higher Education Journal of Student Affairs at New York University Volume VI, 2010 pages 1-6 Roberta Garbarini-Philippe New York University In my article I first examine some historical facts and policy issues related to multiracial individuals, giving a few examples of how this population has…

  • AAS 436–Politics of Racial Ambiguity University of Nevada, Las Vegas Fall 2010 Rainier Spencer, Professor and Director, Afro-American Studies Program Interdisciplinary investigation of contemporary American black/white multiracial identities, including analyses and assessments of the “multiracial identity movement” in the United States.

  • HapaSC: A Place Multiracial Call Home Campus Circle News Los Angeles, California 2010-08-16 Stephanie Forshee Multiracial students at USC [University of Southern California] like Lauren Perez are devoting time to create a place where you can express every part of yourself. HapaSC is an organization of about 30 USC students that raises awareness for “mixed”…