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  • Obama: African-American museum helps tell fuller story of America Cable News Network (CNN) 2016-09-24 Eugene Scott, Politics Reporter Suzanne Malveaux, National correspondent Kevin Bohn, Supervising Producer Washington (CNN) President Barack Obama said Saturday that the new Smithsonian museum devoted to African-American history elevates the often-overlooked impact of black Americans and will help others better understand…

  • ‘Raising Mixed Race’: An Evening with Sharon H. Chang and Tangerine The Seattle Public Library Central Library Level 1 – Microsoft Auditorium 1000 Fourth Avenue Seattle, Washington 98104-1109 Thursday, 2016-09-29, 19:00-21:00 PDT (Local Time) Join us for an author talk, and live music by Seattle band Tangerine, to celebrate the final stop of Sharon H.…

  • The untold stories of Japanese war brides The Washington Post 2016-09-22 Kathryn Tolbert, Deputy Editor Hiroko and Bill with Kathy, left, Sam and Susan. The video is the trailer to a short documentary film, “Fall Seven Times, Get Up Eight: The Japanese War Brides,” which features Hiroko and two other war brides. They married the…

  • Lessons to my child Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey May 2012 98 pages DOI: 10.7282/T3GB221X Ayanna S. Boyd According to the U.S. Census Bureau, interracial marriages have continued to increase with 8.4 million people in mixed marriages in 2005. With the increasing number of interracial marriages, there has been a surge of multiracial…

  • Hapa-palooza Festival 2016 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 2016-09-23 through 2016-09-25 CELEBRATING MIXED HERITAGE The sixth annual Hapa-palooza Festival runs for the month of September 2016, including a month long Hybrid Identity Art Exhibit at the Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch, and three days of free community programming welcoming all from Sept. 23-25th: For more information, click…

  • A comparative study of familial racial socialization and its impact on black/white biracial siblings Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey May 2014 134 pages DOI: 10.7282/T33N21PQ Monique Anne Porow A Dissertation submitted to the Graduate School-New Brunswick Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of…

  • On the color line: the social consequences of White/Black biracial self-categorization Rutgers University, New Brunswick October 2011 71 pages DOI: 10.7282/T3V9874P Leigh Solano Wilton A thesis submitted to the Graduate School-New Brunswick Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science Graduate Program in…

  • The canary in the post-racial coal mine Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 2013 35 pages DOI: 10.7282/T30Z71WG Roxanne Huertas A Capstone Project submitted to the Graduate School-Camden Rutgers-The State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Liberal Studies The American mulatto has been employed by…

  • Reflections on Dr Martin Luther King Jr. International Slavery Museum Dr Martin Luther King Jr building, Albert Dock Liverpool, United Kingdom 2016-09-21, 13:00-16:00 BST (Local Time) Dr Mark Christian, Professor and Chair of Africana Studies Lehman College, City University of New York Black Liverpool and grassroots education in L8 There remains a burning need in…

  • Becoming Creole, Becoming Black: Migration, Diasporic Self-Making, and the Many Lives of Madame Maymie Leona Turpeau de Mena Women, Gender, and Families of Color Volume 4, Number 2 (Fall 2016) pages 171-195 DOI: 10.5406/womgenfamcol.4.2.0171 Courtney Desiree Morris, Assistant Professor of African American Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Pennsylvania State University This article examines…