Category: Media Archive

  • Featured Writer: Daniel York Banana Writers​: Where Asian writers get unpeeled 2013-10-11 P. P. Wong Daniel York is a successful scriptwriter, director and actor who is passionate about championing equal rights for creative East Asians. Born of mixed Chinese and English parentage, the talented British writer was selected as part of the Royal Court’s Unheard Voices initiative for emerging East Asian writers.…

  • ‘Chinese, on the Inside’ The New York Times 2014-03-03 Liz Mak, writer and multimedia producer Oakland, California Catie and Kimberly were adopted from China by a couple from Maine, who attempt to pass on a culture they’ve never known firsthand. About a decade ago, Barbara Cough adopted two girls from China, Kimberly and Catie. Barbara…

  • International Blackness vs. Homegrown Negroes: Lupita, Chimamanda, Thandie and me Alternet 2014-02-23 Esther Armah “She is very white!” Revered Swedish film critic Jannike Åhlund watches a clip of actress Thandie Newton playing Olanna, one of the Nigerian twin sisters in the film adaptation of the award-winning novel Half of a Yellow Sun by Nigerian author…

  • Mapping Interracial/Interethnic Married-Couple Households in the United States: 2010 United States Census Bureau Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America New Orleans, Louisiana 2013-04-11 through 2013-04-13 Tallese D. Johnson, Population Division U.S. Census Bureau Rose M. Kreider, Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics Division U.S. Census Bureau Introduction This poster examines the…

  • White Lies The New York Times Sunday Book Review 2014-02-27 Porochista Khakpour ‘Boy, Snow, Bird,’ by Helen Oyeyemi Strange times, crowed too many wise and unwise men over the millenniums. But as the art critic Jerry Saltz wrote in New York magazine last fall, maybe we’re finally at a point where the strangeness of the…

  • Boy, Snow, Bird: A Novel Riverhead Press (an imprint of Penguin Press) 2014-03-06 320 pages 5.74 x 8.58in Hardcover ISBN: 9781594631399 Helen Oyeyemi From the prizewinning author of Mr. Fox, the Snow White fairy tale brilliantly recast as a story of family secrets, race, beauty, and vanity. In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives…

  • Black history month is a token tribute, but Afro-Latinos don’t even have that The Guardian 2014-02-26 Icess Fernandez Rojas The US has a designated celebration for about every group, but if you’re of mixed heritage, you’re on your own I cringe every time February rolls around. For me, black history month has become predictable. First,…

  • After first-term caution, Obama dives deeper on race USA Today 2014-02-27 Aamer Madhani, White House Correspondent WASHINGTON — During his first term, President Obama waded gingerly into the issue of race, mindful of the historic nature of his presidency while at the same time downplaying its significance. With a couple of exceptions — criticizing a…

  • Afro Latinos’ Mixed Identity Can Leave Them Out of the Mix NBC News 2014-02-27 Patricia Guadalupe and Suzanne Gamboa Afro Latino Marco Davis laughed when he recalled the lengths he went to keep in touch with black and Latino alumni groups when he graduated from Yale University. “One year I would put down that I…

  • The Strategies of Forbidden Love: Family across Racial Boundaries in Nineteenth-Century North Carolina Journal of Social History Volume 47, Issue 3 (Spring 2014) pages 612-626 DOI: 10.1093/jsh/sht112 Warren E. Milteer Jr. This article contends that although local beliefs and legal edicts attempted to discourage sexual and familial relationships between women of color and white men…