Category: Media Archive

  • President, Not Preacher, but Speaking More on Race The New York Times 2013-08-27 Peter Baker WASHINGTON — Sitting in the Roosevelt Room with prominent African-American religious leaders, President Obama on Monday mused about how far the nation had come in the 50 years since the March on Washington led by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther…

  • Jahaji Bhai: The emergence of a Dougla poetics in Trinidad and Tobago Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power Volume 5, Issue 4, 1999 Special Issue: Fight the Power: Changing forms of Consciousness and Protest pages 569-601 DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.1999.9962630 Rhoda Reddock, Professor of Gender and Development Studies University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad…

  • Multiracial Identities in Trinidad and Guyana: Exaltation and Ambiguity Latin American Issues Volume 13 (1997) (The Caribbean(s) Redefined) Article IV Camille Hernandez-Ramdwar, Associate Professor of Sociology Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario For people of formerly colonized countries, race mixing among the populace has always been a reality. This is particularly true for Caribbean peoples. This paper…

  • Three years prior to the ending of the slave trade, Jamaica’s richest and most influential merchant mused on the possible consequences of abolition. Writing to his friend George Hibbert in January of 1804, Simon Taylor offered a stark vision of the British imperial economy without slave importation, echoing scores of other pro-slavery writers who preached…

  • The Politics of Multiracialism in an Anti-Black World I MiX What I Like! WPFW 89.3 FM, Washington, D.C. 2011-10-07 Jared A. Ball, Host and Associate Professor of Communication Studies Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland Jared Sexton, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Film & Media Studies University of California, Irvine Dr. Jared Sexton joined…

  • Mixed “Race” in Southeast Asia?: Racial Theories in Competing Empires (Sawyer Seminar V) University of Southern California Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Center for Japanese Religions and Culture University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library (DML), East Asian Seminar Room (110C) 2013-10-12, 10:00-16:00 PDT (Local Time) USC Conference Convenors: Duncan Williams,…

  • A Review of One Drop of Love: A Daughter’s Search for Her Father’s Racial Approval Gino Michael Pellegrini: Education, Race, Multiraciality, Class & Solidarity 2013-05-08 Gino Michael Pellegrini, Adjunct Assistant Professor of English Pierce College, Woodland Hills, California Is Fanshen a noun, a verb, or an adjective? Is it a who or a what? What…

  • Novelist Heidi Durrow Looks Up [Book Review] Hot Metal Bridge: a literary magazine Published by the University of Pittsburgh 2010-02-15 Liberty Hultberg The Girl who Fell from the Sky, by Heidi W. Durrow (Algonquin, January 2010) Durrow’s debut novel explores modern multiracial identity within one mixed girl’s experience of love, family, class, and beauty in…

  • Canon Fodder: ‘The Girl Who Fell From the Sky’ and the Problem of Mixed-Race Identity Specter Magazine: A Brooklyn-based Art Journal Ghost+Blog (August 2011) 2011-08-18 Summer McDonald Baseball. Apple pie. Buying items in bulk. Buffets. All help create Americana, that itchy, dry-clean only fabric that bonds even the most disparate of us. As fixated as Americans…

  • The Girl Who Fell from the Sky Explains What it Is to Be Mixed and Happy The Huffington Post 2010-05-04 Marcia Dawkins, Clinical Assistant Professor of Communications University of Southern California, Annenberg Professors Ravinder Barn and Vicki Harman from the Centre for Criminology and Sociology at Royal Holloway, University of London are carrying out a…