Category: Media Archive

  • Self Portraits of an African-Canadian Dressed as Her White Ancestors Explores Her Mixed Heritage feature shoot 2013-07-01 Keren Moscovitch Brooklyn-based photographer Stacey Tyrell’s series Backra Bluid is a dramatic investigation of the artist’s own mixed heritage and the colonialized experiences of non-whites. As an African-Canadian, whose family most recently hails from the Caribbean, she is…

  • In the second half of the nineteenth century, global labor migration, trade, and overseas study brought China and the United States into close contact, leading to new cross-cultural encounters that brought mixed-race families into being. Yet the stories of these families remain largely unknown.

  • ‘White House Down’ and Black Presidents on Screen The New York Times 2013-06-26 Mekado Murphy At one point in the action thriller “White House Down,” which opens June 28, the president of the United States, played by Jamie Foxx, is trying to thwart a paramilitary group that has overtaken the White House. After swapping his…

  • Naked Bodies, Bodies of History Hyphen Magazine: Asian America Unabridged 2013-06-27 Jenny Lee “She mimics the speaking. That might resemble speech. (Anything at all.) Bared noise, groan, bits torn from words…From the back of her neck she releases her shoulders free.  She swallows once more.” So begins the story of the halting diseuse, or female…

  • Who Is White?: Latinos, Asians, and the New Black/Nonblack Divide Lynne Rienner 2003 230 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-1-58826-337-7 George Yancey, Professor of Sociology University of North Texas “By the year 2050, whites will be a numerical racial minority, albeit the largest minority, in the United States.” This statement, asserts George Yancey, while statistically correct, is…

  • Black/Non-Black Divide and The Anti-Blackness of Non-Black Minorities Still Furious and Brave: Who’s Afraid of Persistent Blackness? 2013-04-03 Robert Reece Department of Sociology Duke University Last week, an Asian-American fraternity at the University of California Irvine posted a parody of a music video featuring one of their members in blackface. Blackface has become the go-to…

  • Kiss & Tell: A Romantic Résumé, Ages 0 to 22 HarperCollins 2011-03-15 336 pages Trimsize: 6 3/4 x 9 1/4 Paperback ISBN: 9780062009234; ISBN10: 0062009230 eBook ISBN: 9780062078650; ISBN10: 0062078658 MariNaomi From her father and mother’s interracial marriage to her own “you show me yours, I’ll show you mine” moments on the playground—from drug experimentation…

  • The Article focuses on instances of racial capitalism in which white individuals and predominantly white institutions use non-white people to acquire social and economic value. Our affirmative action doctrine provides much of the impetus for this form of racial capitalism. That doctrine has fueled an intense legal and social preoccupation with the notion of diversity,…

  • A Nation of Mutts The New York Times 2013-06-28 David Brooks Over the past few decades, American society has been transformed in a fit of absence of mind. First, we’ve gone from a low immigrant nation to a high immigrant nation. If you grew up between 1950 and 1985, you grew up at a time…

  • ‘One Drop of Love’ (Theatre Review) The Chic of Domesticity: A Woman-to-Women Conversation on All Facets of Life – Fashion – Politics – Religion – Style – Travel 2013-06-29 Jennifer Vaughn-Estrada Plans free for tomorrow evening? I recommend catching the final performance of One Drop of Love: A Daughter’s Search for Her Father’s Racial Approval…