Category: New Media

  • A Visual and Sociological Study of the Hafus 2010-08-07 Through 2010-08-29 Tue-Thu & Sun 12:00-19:00 Fri&Sat 12:00-20:00 (Closed on Mondays and 14, 15, and 16 August ) 3331 Arts Chiyoda 6-11-14 Sotokanda, Chiyoda-Ku,Tokyo, 101-0021 Natalie Maya Willer, Photographer Marcia Yumie Lise, Researcher The Hafu Project is a visual and sociological study & representation of the…

  • Racial Quotas and the Culture War in Brazilian Academia Sociology Compass Volume 4 Issue 8 (August 2010) Pages 592 – 604 DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2010.00295.x Stanley R. Bailey, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Michelle Peria University of California, Irvine Dozens of Brazilian universities recently adopted racial quotas for negros, read Afro-Brazilians, in higher education. Anyone…

  • Part Asian, Not Hapa Open Salon Thoughts from a Third Culture: on being mixed in America 2010-07-27 Mia Nakaji Monnier My mother is Japanese from Osaka; my father, American from a small town in Western Oregon. There’s a word for people like me, used especially on the West Coast and popularized in recent years, maybe…

  • Black, White and Other… Worldwide The Huffington Post 2010-07-27 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University Even though the 21st century is seeing an exponential increase in reports of multiracial ancestry worldwide, exactly what makes a person multiracial remains a puzzling concept. According to the Association of Multiethnic Americans and Project RACE, the definition of…

  • A Brief History of Census “Race” Knol: A unit of knowledge 2010-06-08 4 illustrations Frank W. Sweet, Independent Research Historian The U.S. federal census was founded to apportion congressional representation among the states. In order to achieve additional goals, it switched in 1850 from recording households in summary, to recording individuals in detail. It became…

  • How Do Forced-Choice Dilemmas Affect Multiracial People? The Role of Identity Autonomy and Public Regard in Depressive Symptoms Journal of Applied Social Psychology Volume 40 Issue 7 Pages 1657 – 1677 Published Online: 2010-07-09 DOI: 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2010.00634.x Diana T. Sanchez, Assistant Professor of Social Psychology Rutgers University The present study reports on correlational data gathered from…

  • mix-d™: Walsall Youth Conference: Debate, consultation and fact-find about the UK’s fastest growing population. mix-d™: Tuesday, 2010-07-13 County Inn, Walsall View all of the photographs from the conference here. Photographs courtesy of Cheshire based photographer Rick Milnes.

  • Hybrid Navigator Small Axe Number 32 (Volume 14, Number 2), June 2010 pages 150-159 E-ISSN: 1534-6714 Print ISSN: 0799-0537 Satch Hoyt, Artist/Sculptor I was born in London to an Afro-Jamaican father and a white English mother in the late 1950s. It was, to say the least, a lonely terra nova, a traumatic neocolonial, cross-cultural terrain,…

  • Arts and Mixedness [eConference] Runnymede Trust 2010-07-09 Runnymede is currently hosting an online debate on mixed-race identity and the arts. There is a comment from columnist and broadcaster Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Mixed-Race Britain: Where Next? Playwright and poet Sabrina Mahfouz also writes about her thoughts on mixed-race identity: A Reflection on Mixedness.  There are also contributions from…

  • A Reflection on Mixedness Runnymede Trust July 2010 Sabrina Mahfouz, Poet, Writer and Playwright On the 27 May Runnymede and the Arts Council held a joint seminar in which they invited a group of arts practioners and policy makers to come and debate the nature of ‘Arts and Mixedness’; as well as what—if anything—the Arts…