Category: New Media

  • 2010-03-09 Steven F. Riley Like most Americans, we received a letter in the mail yesterday from the US Census Bureau notifying us of the forthcoming census… Most relevant to this website is the option on the form for individuals to select one or more racial designations the potential consequences for public policy.  As a result in…

  • Passing as Mixed Race Open Salon 2010-03-03 Marcia Dawkins, Assistant Professor of Human Communication California State University, Fullerton Alexandre Dumas has always been one of my favorite writers. Works like The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo and Georges took me on countless adventures in worlds and times much different from my own. But…

  • Barack Obama’s rise marks America’s first multiracial decade Yahoo News 2009-12-09 Thomas Kelley Everyone has a day of awakening when it comes to race. For me, it was a cool September day when I was eight years old. My family had recently moved to Colorado from Tennessee and like any child starting a new school,…

  • Through Russwurm’s Eyes: ‘The Conditions and Prospects of Haiti’ Campus News Bowdoin College 2010-03-01 John B. Russwurm, the College’s first African-American graduate and thought to be the third African-American to graduate from an American college, delivered a commencement address in 1826 that resonates nearly 184 years later. The speech, “The Condition and Prospects of Haiti,”…

  • Blended Nation: A Portrait of Mixed-Race America Yes! Magazine 2010-02-10 The fear and xenophobia in the aftermath of 9/11 got Mike Tauber and Pamela Singh thinking about how race and ethnicity are based on visual cues. They began photographing a network of mixed-race friends in the spring of 2002, eventually working with organizations like Swirl,…

  • Mixed Race Americans Picture A ‘Blended Nation’ Weekend Edition Sunday National Public Radio 2009-11-08 Liane Hansen, Host The 2000 U.S. census was the first to give Americans the option to check more than one box for race. Nearly 7 million people declared themselves to be multiracial that year, a number that’s expected to shoot up…

  • Generation Mixed: Breaking the Race Barrier Yes! Magazine 2010-03-04 Adrienne Maree Brown “I have to be a healer… my ancestral colonizer’s blood runs through my veins.” —Cara Page I’ve never been into identity politics. I’ve long felt that people spent too much time analyzing the labels of past generations and too little time feeling part…

  • How Will Barack Obama Fill Out His Census Form?: The Future of “Miscegenation” in America FSB Media 2009 Rich Benjamin The President says publicly that he is “African-American.”But will he check “black” or “two or more races” on his 2010 Census form? My parents, two dark-skinned blacks, married in 1967, a year when miscegenation —…

  • Malaga Island’s place in Maine history preserved The Times Record Published: 2009-08-18, 18:08Z Seth Koenig, Times Record Staff PHIPPSBURG — The site of perhaps the most striking case of racial injustice in Maine history was the focus of a Saturday ceremony aimed at preserving the land and its lessons for future generations. Malaga Island, off…

  • Multiracial Men in Toronto: Identities, Masculinities and Multiculturalism Masters Thesis of Education Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto 2009-12-11 Danielle Lafond University of Toronto This thesis draws from ten qualitative semi-structured interviews with multiracial men in Toronto. It is an exploratory study that examines…