Category: Media Archive

  • For Affirmative Action, Brazil Sets Up Controversial Boards To Determine Race Parallels: Many Stories, One World National Public Radio 2016-09-29 Lulu Garcia-Navarro, South America Correspondent When the test scores came out, Lucas Siqueira, 27, was really excited. His high mark on the Foreign Service exam earned him a coveted position at Brazil’s highly competitive Ministry…

  • Brown Bodies, White Babies: The Politics of Cross-Racial Surrogacy New York University Press September 2016 320 pages Cloth ISBN: 9781479808175 Paper ISBN: 9781479894864 Laura Harrison, Assistant Professor Department of Gender and Women’s Studies Minnesota State University, Mankato Brown Bodies, White Babies focuses on the practice of cross-racial gestational surrogacy, in which a woman—through in-vitro fertilization…

  • ‘Pigmentocracy’ a Major Factor in Brazil, Venezuela Turmoil Fordham Law News: From New York City To You 2016-08-11 Ray Legendre A global audience watched Brazil unveil the 2016 Olympics earlier this month with a flashy, jubilant opening ceremony that celebrated its racial diversity and belied its ongoing political and economic strife. But acting President Michel…

  • Towne Street Theatre Announces Special Events During the Limited Engagement Run of PassingSOLO BroadwayWorld.com Los Angeles 2016-09-21 Towne Street Theatre, L.A.’s premiere African-American Theatre Company, is proud to announce that there will be a number of special events during the limited engagement run of “PassingSOLO.” The production, which runs for three weeks only from October…

  • A hidden bias against interracial couples The Seattle Times 2016-09-23 Allison Skinner, Postdoctoral Researcher Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences University of Washington Although most white Americans self-report little to no racial bias against black people, they tend to show robust implicit, or unconscious, biases. NEXT year marks the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme…

  • In the summer of 2015, shortly after Caitlyn Jenner came out as transgender, the NAACP official and political activist Rachel Dolezal was “outed” by her parents as white, touching off a heated debate in the media about the fluidity of gender and race. If Jenner could legitimately identify as a woman, could Dolezal legitimately identify…

  • Uchinanchu: The Art of Laura Kina Kwan Fong Gallery of Art and Culture California Lutheran University 120 Memorial Parkway Thousand Oaks, California 91360 2016-05-23 On view: June 10–October 30, 2016 Artist’s Talk: Thursday, September 29, 2016 | 6 p.m. PDT Image: Laura Kina, Hello Kitty, acrylic on canvas and denim, assorted fabrics, t-shirts from the artist’s…

  • This book explores mixed marriage though intimate stories drawn from the real lives of visibly different couples.

  • Opinion: “White spaces” are everywhere – including ARC The American River Current Sacramento, California 2016-09-26 Shiavon Chatman Imagine being alone in a place where there was no one who looked like you or understood your experiences. Imagine having a conversation with someone who assumed the actions and behaviors of people who looked like you and…

  • Colin Kaepernick Had No Choice but to Kneel TIME 2016-10-03 John McWhorter, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature Columbia University, New York, New York ‘We must understand what Kaepernick is protesting’ The idea that Colin Kaepernick’s refusal to stand during the national anthem is unpatriotic fails doubly: first, in a mistaken notion of what…