Category: Media Archive

  • Who Are We, Really? View from Rue Saint-Georges The American Scholar 2016-09-21 Thomas Chatterton Williams Detail from The Redemption of Ham by Modesto Brocos y Gómez (1895) Lately, as I’ve been working on my second book, a meditation on the absurdity of sorting human beings into metaphorical color categories, I’ve been thinking a lot about…

  • Racial awareness lacks “One Drop of Love” The Current St. Petersburg, Florida 2016-10-06 Mereysa Taylor, Co-Opinion Editor Cox DiGiovanni artfully narrates her own education about being mixed race in America in efforts to start a larger national dialogue. photo by Jeff Lorch Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni graced Eckerd with her one-woman performance about how race was…

  • Jackie Kay announces makar’s tour of all the Scottish islands The Guardian 2016-10-07 Libby Brooks, Scotland Correspondent The poet has revealed plans for ‘an odyssey’ that will take in overlooked parts of Scotland and form the basis of a long poem about the country As the UK lurches towards xenophobia, it is a writer’s responsibility…

  • Meritocracy in Obama’s Gilded Age The Chronicle of Higher Education 2016-09-25 Aziz Rana, Professor of Law Cornell University, Ithaca, New York The Obama administration’s vision of social mobility in America is bound up with a story about higher education. According to this story, elite colleges and universities are engines of American opportunity. They select the…

  • “So, What Are You?” Columbia Daily Spectator New York, New York 2016-10-04 Alexandra Peebles and Eliza Solomon Members of the Mixed Heritage Society at a club meeting. (Jared Orellana / Staff Photographer) “For me, personally, thinking of myself as defined by race has never really worked, because I don’t fit in with the Asians, [and]…

  • Where is the love: How tolerant is Canada of its interracial couples? The Globe and Mail 2016-10-03 Zosia Bielski Minelle Mahtani, an associate professor in human geography and journalism at the University of Toronto Scarborough, wrote the book Mixed Race Amnesia: Resisting the Romanticization of Multiraciality in Canada. (Jennifer Van Houten) Is love the last…

  • How do multiracial Asian people fit into discussions around race? The Record KUOW.org 94.9 FM | Seattle News & Information 2016-09-29 Caroline Chamberlain, Acquisitions Producer Bill Radke, Host Bill Radke sits down with Sharon H. Chang, author of “Raising Mixed Race: Multiracial Asian Children in a Post-Racial World.” She explains why it’s important to study the…

  • An extraordinary life: Elizabeth Anionwu Nursing Standard 2016-10-02 Thelma Agnew, Commissioning Editor Elizabeth Anionwu Celebrated nurse Elizabeth Anionwu spent 9 years in care as a child, and her early life was marked by racism and the stigma of illegitimacy.  In her new book she reveals how she found her Nigerian father, and why being an…

  • American thinking about race is starting to influence Brazil, the country whose population was shaped more than any other’s by the Atlantic slave trade

  • The Black Prince of Florence: A Medici Mystery University of York Room K/133, King’s Manor York, United Kingdom Tuesday, 2016-10-18, 19:00 BST (Local Time) Black History Month Lecture Catherine Fletcher is a historian of Renaissance and early modern Europe. Her first book, The Divorce of Henry VIII, was published in 2012 and brought to life…