Category: Media Archive

  • Opinion: Why Future Politicians Must Embrace Our Composite Nation The Next America: How Demography Shapes the National Agenda National Journal 2012-11-14 Benjamin Todd Jealous, President and CEO National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) America is becoming browner—and the ability to harness the changing electorate has become the gold standard for any aspiring…

  • Poetic Justice: Drake and East African Girls The Feminist Wire 2013-04-03 Safy-Hallan Farah, Guest Contributor I am an East African Girl. A couple years ago, one of my friends told me that being an East African meant I’m not really black. A visibly mixed-race girl with a “high yellow” complexion and sandy brown hair telling…

  • When two sources of water come together to form one body, it is called a confluence. This is a place where two distinct sources of water crash and tumble over each other, churning and frothing. Here, a new river is born that cuts through the terrain as a single system. Some of these amalgamated rivers…

  • Post Racialism, Romance, and The Real World D.C. FlowTV Volume 11, Issue 13 (2010-05-07) Jon Kraszewski, Assistant Professor of Communication Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersery MTV recently finished airing The Real World, DC, the twenty-third season of this long-running reality series. This past season, Ty, an African American from Baltimore, and Emily, a white…

  • What’s in a name? Exploring the employment of  ‘mixed race’ as an identification Ethnicities Volume 2, Number 4 (December 2002) pages 469-490 DOI: 10.1177/14687968020020040201 Minelle Mahtani, Professor of Geography and Journalism University of Toronto In the last 20 years, we have witnessed an explosion in scholarship and popular media accounts about the experience of ‘mixed race’…

  • Interview with Mixed In Canada’s Rema Tavares 100% Mixed Show 2012-03-12 Phil Koo Mixed-Me founder Rema Tavares talks about her website.

  • This guide accompanies the following article: Nikki Khanna, ‘Multiracial Americans: Racial Identity Choices and Implications for the Collection of Race Data’, Sociology Compass 6/4 (2012): 316–331, 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2011.00454.x.

  • Masters and Slaves: ‘Sugar in the Blood,’ by Andrea Stuart The New York Times 2013-03-29 Amy Wilentz Sugar in the Blood: A Family’s Story of Slavery and Empire By Andrea Stuart, Illustrated. 353 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. On a trip to Paris, I recently had the same shocked realization that Andrea Stuart describes in her…

  • Will Personalized Medicine Challenge or Reify Categories of Race and Ethnicity? Virtual Mentor: American Medical Association Journal of Ethics Volume 14, Number 8 (August 2012) pages 657-663 Ramya Rajagopalan, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Fellow Department of Sociology University of Wisconsin, Madison Joan H. Fujimura, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology; Professor of Science and Technology Studies Robert F.…

  • This article examines Henry Ossawa Tanner’s complex sense of his own racial identity. Tanner’s conflict was born of the fact that in his personal adult life he walked a fragile line between his whiteness and his blackness; in France, he systematically worked to remove race from the equation of his life. The author also identifies…