Category: Media Archive

  • Miscegenating Racial Representations: Critical Mixed Race Strategies and the Visual Arts College Art Association 102nd Annual Conference Hilton Chicago 720 South Michigan Avenue International South, 2nd Floor Chicago, Illinois 60605 2014-02-15, 14:30-17:00 CST (Local Time) Chairs: Laura Kina, Associate Professor Art, Media and Design DePaul University Margo Machida, Associate Professor of Art History and Asian…

  • Why I Can’t Be My Son’s Mother The Blog The Huffington Post 2014-02-04 Shannon Shelton Miller My 6-month-old wouldn’t smile for his stage mom, no matter what faces she made or how much she cooed in his ear. So the photographer asked for my help. I positioned myself next to the camera, directly in my…

  • A Breakdown & Discussion of Upcoming Events with Our Very Own, Steve Riley Mixed Race Radio Blog Talk Radio 2014-02-12, 17:00Z (12:00 EDT) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host On Wednesday’s episode of Mixed Race Radio, Steve Riley (mixedracestudies. org) will join me to discuss some upcoming events and performances occurring all over the world. Whether you…

  • How sexism, racism, and socio-economic inequality interact in the Brazilian sex industry

  • Stuart Hall obituary The Guardian 2014-02-10 David Morley and Bill Schwarz Influential cultural theorist, campaigner and founding editor of the New Left Review When the writer and academic Richard Hoggart founded the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham University in 1964, he invited Stuart Hall, who has died aged 82, to join him as…

  • Meaning of mixed race Macalester College News Saint Paul, Minnesota 2013-02-07 Americans are increasingly thinking about their racial identities, says American studies professor Jane Rhodes, with the whole question of mixed race identities getting more attention. “Academia is just starting to catch up with that conversation,” she says, which is one reason why her department…

  • Grafton Tyler Brown—whose heritage was likely one-eighth African American—finessed his way through San Francisco society by passing for white. Working in an environment hostile to African American achievement, Brown became a successful commercial artist and businessman in the rough-and-tumble gold rush era and the years after the Civil War. Best known for his bird’s-eye cityscapes,…

  • American Cocktail: A “Colored Girl” in the World Harvard University Press 2014-02-17 352 pages 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches 20 halftones Hardcover ISBN 9780674073050 Anita Reynolds (1901-1980), actress, dancer, model, and psychologist with Howard Miller, Professor of Education and Chair in the Department of Secondary Education Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, New York Edited by: George Hutchinson,…

  • Cause of Death Affects Racial Classification on Death Certificates PLoS ONE: A peer-reviewed, open access journal Volume 6, Number 1 (2011-01-26) e15812 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015812 Andrew Noymer, Associate Professor of Sociology; Associate Professor of Population Health and Disease Prevention Public Health University of California, Irvine Andrew M. Penner, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Aliya…

  • Study: Stereotypes Drive Perceptions Of Race Morning Edition National Public Radio 2014-02-11 Steve Inskeeep, Host Shankar Vedantam, Science correspondent Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Governments, schools and companies all keep track of your race. The stats they collect are used to track the proportion of blacks and whites who graduate from school,…