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  • China’s Mixed Views on Mixed People

    China’s Mixed Views on Mixed People hardboiled: the asian pacific american issues newsmagazine at uc berkeley Issue 13.3 (March 2010) page 9 Margaret Zhou “Little girl, wait! Take picture?” Over the four years I spent in China as a child, I was grabbed and tugged by the arm hundreds of times by strangers who all…

  • Family Portrait in Black and White: A Talk With Julia Ivanova

    Family Portrait in Black and White: A Talk With Julia Ivanova The Huffington Post The Blog 2012-07-12 E. Nina Rothe, Global Culture Explorer The upcoming documentary by Julia Ivanova, titled Family Portrait in Black and White features a Ukrainian foster mother, Olga, and her brood of 27 foster kids. Ranging in ages between grade schoolers…

  • Family Portrait in Black and White: Documentary by Julia Ivanova

    Family Portrait in Black and White: Documentary by Julia Ivanova Interfilm Productions Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 2011 Institutional Use: Double DVD (includes 85 and 52 minute versions) Private Use: 85 minute DVD Julia Ivanova, Director Olga Nenya has 27 children. Four of them, now adults, are her biological children; the other 23 are adopted or…

  • The Politics of Samba

    The Politics of Samba Georgetown Journal of International Affairs Volume 2, Number 2 (Summer/Fall 2001) Bruce Gilman Samba, which was created in its present form in the 1910s, yet whose roots reach back much farther and tie Brazil to the African continent, has played an integral part in Brazil’s conceptualization as a nation. Originally despised…

  • In the future, we will be…: Priyank Shah at TEDx Columbus

    In the future, we will be…: Priyank Shah at TEDx Columbus TEDx Columbus 2012-10-14 Priyank Shah, Demographer, Futurist, Teacher Dr. Shah is a demographer and a very enthusiastic one. He’ll begin our day with baseline picture of where we are headed as a population so we will better understand ourselves as a society. But no…

  • Census Bureau Establishes National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic and Other Populations

    Census Bureau Establishes National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic and Other Populations United States Census Bureau News Release CB12-195 2012-10-12 The U.S. Census Bureau announced today the establishment of the National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic and Other Populations. The Census Bureau has also named the committee’s members and leadership. The National Advisory Committee will…

  • ‘Passing’ in colonial Colombia

    ‘Passing’ in colonial Colombia Havard University Gazette 2009-02-12 Corydon Ireland, Harvard News Office Racial categories today are self-evident — part of what social scientists might call “socially constructed discourse.” Contemporary people of one race are aware of what other races look like, as well as where they themselves belong in the racial scheme of things.…

  • Under the skin

    Under the skin Havard University Gazette 2012-10-12 Aaron Lester, Harvard Correspondent Deep experience informs panelists’ views on mixed-race life in U.S. When Carmen Fields’ future husband asked her to meet his mother, Fields refused. “No way. I didn’t want to be the reason she opened up the front door and dropped the Easter ham,” she…

  • Student-Organized Conference To Focus on ‘Mixed-Race Experience’

    Student-Organized Conference To Focus on ‘Mixed-Race Experience’ Havard University Gazette 2000-04-13 Ken Gewertz, Gazette Staff For many of us, food can be a powerful reminder of who we are and where we come from. But the foods that Rebecca Weisinger ’02 remembers from her family dinner table were a little different from most. “Sometimes my…

  • Black Pride, Democratic Politics: Can They Be Separated in Blacks’ Support of Obama?

    Black Pride, Democratic Politics: Can They Be Separated in Blacks’ Support of Obama? The Associated Press 2012-10-13 Jesse Washington, National Writer, Race and Ethnicity Surviving slavery, segregation and discrimination has forged a special pride in African-Americans. Now some are saying this hard-earned pride has become prejudice in the form of blind loyalty to President Barack…