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  • The day my daughter realized she isn’t white

    The day my daughter realized she isn’t white The Washington Post 2015-11-03 Lisa Papademetriou “Mama,” my 4-year-old daughter said. “Did you know that darks and lights didn’t used to be able to go to the same places?” “What?” I asked. It was bedtime, and I was tired. I wondered vaguely how Zara knew so much…

  • Vanishing Eden: White Construction of Memory, Meaning, and Identity in a Racially Changing City

    Vanishing Eden: White Construction of Memory, Meaning, and Identity in a Racially Changing City Temple University Press November 2015 198 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 978-1-43991-119-8 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-43991-118-1 eBook ISBN: 978-1-43991-120-4 Michael T. Maly, Associate Professor of Sociology; Director of the Policy Research Collaborative Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois Heather M. Dalmage, Professor of…

  • Diversity Committee Workshop: Loretta Staples, LCSW: “Both & Neither: Biracial Identities”

    Diversity Committee Workshop: Loretta Staples, LCSW: “Both & Neither: Biracial Identities” The Connecticut Society of Psychoanalytic Psychology Mt. Carmel Medical & Professional Building 3074 Whitney Avenue, Bldg 1 Hamden, Connecticut 06518 2015-11-14, 10:30-12:30 EST (Local Time) Loretta Staples, LCSW The CSPP Diversity Work Group Announces a New Workshop in our series: Through An/Other Lens: Multicultural…

  • “Mixed Race” Identities in Asia and the Pacific: Experiences from Singapore and New Zealand

    “Mixed race” is becoming an important area for research, and there is a growing body of work in the North American and British contexts. However, understandings and experiences of “mixed race” across different countries and regions are not often explored in significant depth. New Zealand and Singapore provide important contexts for investigation, as two multicultural,…

  • Minelle Mahtani is the New Host of “Sense of Place” on Roundhouse Radio 98.3 Vancouver

    Minelle Mahtani is an author, journalist and professor. She is an Associate Professor of Human Geography and Planning, and the Program in Journalism, at University of Toronto-Scarborough. She has written two books, “Mixed Race Amnesia: Resisting the Romanticization of Multiraciality” and “Global Mixed Race.”

  • Williams: A positive among the attack ads in the Gecker-Sturtevant race

    Williams: A positive among the attack ads in the Gecker-Sturtevant race Richmond Times-Dispatch Richmond, Virginia 2015-11-02 Michael Paul Williams, Columnist During the 2000 Republican primary in South Carolina, John McCain was the target of a whisper campaign that he’d fathered a black child out of wedlock. McCain, who in reality had an adopted Bangladeshi daughter,…

  • Koreans and Camptowns: Mixed-Race Adoptees and Camptown Connections

    Koreans and Camptowns: Mixed-Race Adoptees and Camptown Connections David Brower Center 2150 Allston Way Berkeley, California 94704 2015-09-26, 09:00-17:00 PDT (Local Time) In cooperation with the Center for Korean Studies, University of California, Berkeley, we were excited to host a one-day conference to learn more about the camptowns that developed alongside American military bases in…

  • BU community urged to increase open, uncomfortable conversation

    BU community urged to increase open, uncomfortable conversation The Daily Free Press The independent student newspaper at Boston University ISSN 1094-7337 2015-11-03 Joe Becker Keynote speaker and comedian W. Kamau Bell speaks about his mixed race children during “Let’s Talk About It,” a dialogue about race, identity and social action, on Monday night. PHOTO BY…

  • Shaun King: I’ve been called the N-word since I was 14, but now those same people want me to be white

    Shaun King: I’ve been called the N-word since I was 14, but now those same people want me to be white The New York Daily News 2015-11-03 Shaun King Atlanta, Georgia Robin Rayne Nelson EDITOR’S NOTE: Our policy at the Daily News is to censor most racial pejoratives. We have made an exception in the…

  • Biracial Identity: My Choice, Not Society’s

    Biracial Identity: My Choice, Not Society’s The Huffington Post 2015-11-02 Natasha Sim, Law Student, Writer, Animal Lover Being biracial or multiracial is becoming increasingly common in the world, but it is still an unfamiliar concept to many. Many people probably know at least one biracial or multiracial person, but the intricacies of biracialism and multiracialism…