Category: Media Archive

  • Winning the Race NYU Alumni Magazine Fall 2012 Andrea Crawford As the first African-American president runs for reelection, researchers examine the subliminal influence of political ads  In 1990, longtime North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms was trailing challenger Harvey Gantt, an African-American who supported affirmative action, when the Helms campaign produced the infamous “hands” commercial. As…

  • Aisha Sabatini Sloan Trop 2013-05-14 Zoe Ruiz, Saturday Editor for The Rumpus and staff member of FOUND In The Fluency of Light, Aisha Sabatini Sloan’s essays read like meditations on themes of identity, race, and family. Her writing is sharp—one might say spare—and her descriptions, clear and beautiful. Her essays are a guide that help…

  • Backlash greets Cheerios ad with interracial family The Washington Post 2013-05-31 Mary C. Curtis Here we go again, with more proof, if anyone needed it, that the post-racial American society some hoped the election of an African American president signified is far from here. Who would have thought that breakfast cereal would trigger the latest…

  • Senior Interculturalist Profile: Dr. Stella Ting-Toomey Society of Intercultural Education, Training, & Research (SIETAR) Newsletter January 2002 4 pages Susan Rinderle Stella Ting-Toomey is probably the only person who seems surprised that she is considered one of the top figures in the intercultural communication field, dismissing deserved compliments with a simple, “I’m just doing my…

  • Bicultural Identity Negotiation, Conflicts, and Intergroup Communication Strategies Journal of Intercultural Communication Research Volume 42,  Issue 2, 2013 pages 112-134 DOI: 10.1080/17475759.2013.785973 Adrian Toomey California State University, Fullerton Tenzin Dorjee, Assistant Professor of Human Communications Studies California State University, Fullerton Stella Ting-Toomey, Professor of Human Communications Studies California State University, Fullerton This qualitative study explores…

  • Disability and Passing: Blurring the Lines of Identity Temple University Press May 2013 218 pages 5.5 x 8.25; 1 halftone Paper EAN: 978-1-43990-980-5 Cloth EAN: 978-1-43990-979-9 eBook EAN: 978-1-43990-981-2 Edited by: Jeffrey A. Brune, Assistant Professor of History Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C. Daniel J. Wilson, Professor of History Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania Passing—an act usually…

  • I’m a kosher burrito, says new mixed-race LA mayor The Jewish Chronicle Online London, England 2013-05-30 Tom Tugend Eric Garcetti, the first Jewish mayor elected by Los Angeles voters, jokingly refers to himself as a “kosher burrito”, the latter word referring to a popular Mexican dish. The son of a Jewish mother and a father…

  • Why We Need to Talk About Race in Adoption Bitch Magazine 2013-05-29 Nicole Callahan Two years ago, on vacation in the Great Smoky Mountains, I saw a white couple at a restaurant with their Asian daughter. Though her father told her to quit staring, I felt the girl’s eyes on me all through the meal.…

  • Black woman rises to leadership in Daughters of the American Revolution theGrio 2013-05-26 Donovan X. Ramsey This month, Autier Allen-Craft was elected to the position of regent in the Norwalk–Village Green chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) in Connecticut. Allen-Craft, a black woman, says the organization has come a long way since…

  • The United States of Mestizo John F. Blair, Publisher 2013-01-01 48 pages 4¼ x 5½ 978-1-58838-288-7 ebook ISBN: 978-1-60306-200-8 Ilan Stavans, Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts This powerful manifesto attests to the fundamental changes the nation has undergone in the last half-century. Ilan Stavans meditates on the way…