Category: Media Archive

  • Art at Wing Luke Museum explores mixed-race heritage The Seattle Times 2013-08-19 Robert Ayers, Special to The Seattle Times The thought-provoking “War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian-American Art” exhibition is showing at the Wing Luke in Seattle through Jan. 19, 2014. “War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian-American Art,” currently at the Wing Luke Museum of…

  • Sex and Race, Volume I: Negro-Caucasian Mixing in All Ages and All Lands: The Old World J. A. Rogers (1880-1966) Helga Rogers 1941 (Ninth Edition, 1967) 302 pages ISBN-13: 978-0960229406; ISBN 10: 096022940X Table of Contents I. RACE TODAY II. WHICH IS THE OLDEST RACE? III. THE MIXING OF BLACK AND WHITE IN THE ANCIENT…

  • ‘Mixed Kids Are Always So Beautiful’ Motherlode: Adventures in Parenting The New York Times 2013-08-19 Nicole Soojung Callahan Like many other people of color, I am no stranger to awkward conversations about race. Strangers have complimented my English, remarked on how tall I am “for an Asian” and — more times than I can count…

  • A Family Tree That Includes Slaves — And Slave Owners Tell Me More National Public Radio 2013-08-15 Celeste Headlee, Host Part of our summer reading series Island Reads, highlighting authors from the Caribbean Andrea Stuart was curious about her family’s history in Barbados. And through years of careful research, she found that her bloodline includes…

  • There Is No Scientific Rationale for Race-Based Research Journal of the National Medical Association Volume 99, Number 6 (June 2007) pages 690-692 Eddie L. Hoover, Professor of Surgery State University of New York, Buffalo For centuries, the colonial governments used a combination of race and ethnic characteristics to subjugate and control people of color, and…

  • Representing Mixed Race in Jamaica and England from the Abolition Era to the Present by Sara Salih (review) Eighteenth-Century Fiction Volume 25, Number 4, Summer 2013 pages 777-780 DOI: 10.1353/ecf.2013.0025 Nicole N. Aljoe, Assistant Professor of English Northeastern University Sarah Salih, Representing Mixed Race in Jamaica and England from the Abolition Era to the Present…

  • When Jim Crow Met John Bull: Black American Soldiers in World War II Britain I. B. Tauris & Co Ltd. 1987 300 pages 220 x 140cm Hardback ISBN: 9781850430391 Graham Smith An important chapter in the history of World War II is here explored for the first-time—how the arrival of the black troops strained war-time…

  • Two Cities: Guangzhou/Lagos Nokoko Institute of African Studies Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Volume 2 (Fall 2011) pages 174-197 Wendy Thompson Taiwo, Assistant Professor of African American Studies San José State University, San Jose, California I was in Nigeria in May, the year I turned twenty-nine. And aside from the few hours of electricity per day,…

  • Two worlds… One reflection IDEATE: The Undergraduate Journal of Sociology University of Essex, Colchester, England Volume 10, Summer 2013 19 pages Yasmin Currid Introduction I went through most of my childhood believing that my family was just the same as everybody else’s. I did not realise that there was something slightly different about the dynamics…

  • Race Reconciled Re-Debunks Race – Anthropology 1.6 Living Anthropologically: Anthropology – Understanding – Possibility 2013-02-27 Jason Antrosio, Associate Professor of Anthropology Hartwick College, Oneonta, New York In May 2009, the American Journal of Physical Anthropology published Race Reconciled, a special issue with cutting-edge work by biological anthropologists. These researchers have read the critique of Richard…