Category: Media Archive

  • Mixed Race Related Sessions at ACPA 2014 American College Personnel Association 2014 Annual Convenetion Indianapolis, Indiana 2014-03-30 through 2014-04-02 574: Coloring Outside the Lines: How to Advocate for Multiracial Students on the College Campus Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Tuesday, 2014-04-01, 10:30-11:30 CDT (Local Time) Location: Indiana Convention Center, 141 Program Presenter: Jessica Harris Indiana…

  • Daughter of the Empire State: The Life of Judge Jane Bolin University of Illinois Press December 2011 168 pages 6 x 9 in. 4 black & white photographs Cloth ISBN: 978-0-252-03657-6 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-252-09361-6 Jacqueline A. McLeod, Associate Professor of History and African & African American Studies Metropolitan State College of Denver The trailblazing work…

  • When it Comes to Diversity, Who Counts? The Huffington Post The Blog 2014-03-26 Martha S. Jones, Arthur F Thurnau Professor, Associate Professor of History and Afroamerican and African Studies University of Michigan When talking diversity at colleges and universities, the numbers count. Still, when it comes to mixed-race students, too often they do not count…

  • [This short paper was originally written for “Jean Toomer and Politics,” a Special Session Roundtable at the 2012 MLA Conference in Seattle. I have made a few edits.]

  • Jane Bolin, the Country’s First Black Woman to Become a Judge, Is Dead at 98 The New York Times 2007-01-10 Douglas Martin Jane Bolin, whose appointment as a family court judge by Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia in 1939 made her the first black woman in the United States to become a judge, died on…

  • Owning my mixed-race identity: Why I don’t have to choose sides Salon Wednesday, 2014-03-12 Eternity E. Martis London, Ontario, Canada People can’t seem to understand that I’m not either black or Anglo-Pakistani, but all of the above My mother is Anglo-Pakistani and my father is Jamaican (and a quarter Chinese). I grew up with my…

  • Butterfield featured on ‘Colbert Report’ The Wilson Times Wilson, North Carolina Tuesday, 2014-03-25 Corey Friedman, Times Online Editor Comic pundit Stephen Colbert argued Obamacare and the Racial Justice Act with U.S. Rep. G.K. Butterfield while bashing North Carolina barbecue in a playful segment spotlighting Wilson’s congressional district. Butterfield, a Democrat representing the state’s 1st District,…

  • Playing Chinese Whispers: The Official ‘Gossip’ of Racial Whitening in Jorge Amado’s Tenda dos Milagres Forum for Modern Language Studies Volume 50, Issue 2, April 2014 pages 196-211 DOI: 10.1093/fmls/cqu006 Helen Lima de Sousa, Santander Post-Doctoral Senior Studentship in Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies Clare College, University of Cambridge This article explores the possible inauthentic…

  • Zines from the Borderlands: Storytelling about Mixed-Heritage Brooklyn Historical Society Great Hall 128 Pierrepont Street Brooklyn, New York 2014-04-24, 19:00-21:00 EST (Local Time) How can zines create new narratives and representations for mixed-heritage people, LGBTQ communities, and people of color who are stereotyped or ignored in mainstream media? What is the role of zines, DIY…

  • Becoming a black woman: an identity in process Black Women of Brazil: The site dedicated to Brazilian women of African descent 2013-07-31 Fernanda Souza “(…) We are born preta (black), mulata, parda, brown, roxinha (a little purple) among others, but becoming negra (black) (1) is an achievement.” (Lélia Gonzalez) “How (does one) to form an…