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  • Jackie Kay and Sebastian Barry: Identity and struggle

    Jackie Kay and Sebastian Barry: Identity and struggle The Guardian 2011-08-15 Sarah Crown In our inaugural podcast from the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Sebastian Barry and Jackie Kay talk to us about the themes that power their work In our first podcast from the 2011 Edinburgh International Book Festival, we explore questions of identity and…

  • Who Is Black In America? Soledad O’Brien, CNN Find Out In ‘BIA 5′

    Who Is Black In America? Soledad O’Brien, CNN Find Out In ‘BIA 5’ NewsOne: For Black America 2012-12-07 Navarrow Wright This Sunday at 8 p.m., CNN airs its fifth installment of the “Black In America” series, which is hosted by Soledad O’Brien. In this episode, O’Brien asks the question, “Who is Black in America?” as…

  • Why isn’t ‘colorism’ gone?

    Why isn’t ‘colorism’ gone? Cable News Network (CNN) 2012-12-05 Has “colorism” disappeared? CNN’s Soledad O’Brien asks author and Activist Tim Wise.

  • A Hapa Family in Chekhov’s Three Sisters

    A Hapa Family in Chekhov’s Three Sisters Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies Volume 3 (2012), Special Issue: Mixed Heritage Asian American Literature pages 130-146 Elizabeth Liang, Actress, Writer, Producer and co-host of “Hapa Happy Hour” It is an act of courage or foolhardiness to produce theatre in the heart of the film world, depending…

  • Annette John-Hall: CNN series cuts to the core of black identity

    No surprise that “Black in America,” Soledad O’Brien’s documentary series on African American life and culture, was among CNN’s most-watched programs. No other show has offered a deeper look at what it means to be black, in all its complexities.

  • Soledad O’Brien: Who is black in America? I am

    Soledad O’Brien: Who is black in America? I am Cable News Network (CNN) 2012-12-07 Editor’s Note: In today’s United States, is being black determined by the color of your skin, by your family, by what society says, or something else? Soledad O’Brien reports “Who Is Black in America?” on CNN at 8 p.m. ET/PT this…

  • Race in a Bottle: The Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine in a Post-Genomic Age

    At a ceremony announcing the completion of the first draft of the human genome in 2000, President Bill Clinton declared, “I believe one of the great truths to emerge from this triumphant expedition inside the human genome is that in genetic terms, all human beings, regardless of race, are more than 99.9 percent the same.”…

  • Angry Black White Boy or The Miscegenation of Macon Detornay: A Novel

    From the acclaimed author of “Shackling Water” comes the first great race novel of the twenty-first century, an incendiary and ruthlessly funny satire about violence, pop culture, and American identity.

  • Whiteness and the city: Australians of Anglo-Indian heritage in suburban Melbourne

    Whiteness and the city: Australians of Anglo-Indian heritage in suburban Melbourne South Asian Diaspora Volume 4, Issue 2, May 2012 pages 123-137 DOI: 10.1080/19438192.2012.675721 Michele Lobo, Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow Arts and Education Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia Leslie Morgan School of Education Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia This paper uses an auto-ethnographic approach to map…

  • Demographic Shifts Redefine What It Means to Be Korean

    Demographic Shifts Redefine What It Means to Be Korean The New York Times 2012-11-29 Choe Sang-Hun SEOUL, South Korea — Jasmine Lee realizes just how Korean she’s become when she breaks out in the language, forgetting that her Filipino mother on the other end of the phone can’t understand her. But she is reminded of…