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  • Loving and the Legacy of Unintended Consequences

    Here, I will explore Loving’s unintended consequences by considering why the Court took so much for granted and how the opinion later was deployed in unexpected ways. After briefly examining the facts and holdings in the case, I will show that the Justices accepted monoracial categories as a given, despite evidence of multiracial complexity.

  • The Multiracial Epiphany of Loving

    Looking back to Loving as the official birth of Multiracial America reinforces the prevailing memory of racial separatism while further underscoring the illegitimacy of miscegenations past. By establishing racial freedom in marriage, Loving also sets a misleading context for the history of mixed race in America. Even though Loving instigates the open acceptance of interracialism,…

  • Finding culture in ‘poetic’ structures: The case of a ‘racially-mixed’ Japanese/New Zealander

    Finding culture in ‘poetic’ structures: The case of a ‘racially-mixed’ Japanese/New Zealander Journal of Multicultural Discourses Online Before Print: 2012-01-18 19 pages DOI: 10.1080/17447143.2011.610507 Masataka Yamaguchi, Professor of Japanese Studies University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand In this article, I analyze discourse taken from my interviews with a ‘racially-mixed’ Japanese/New Zealander in which he represents…

  • Schooling, Blackness and national identity in Esmeraldas, Ecuador

    Schooling, Blackness and national identity in Esmeraldas, Ecuador Race Ethnicity and Education Volume 10, Issue 1, (March 2007) pages 47-70 DOI: 10.1080/13613320601100377 Ethan Allen Johnson, Assistant Professor of Black Studies Portland State University, Portland, Oregon In Esmeraldas, Ecuador, students of African descent make sense of racial identity and discrimination in multiple and contradictory ways as…

  • Student and teacher negotiations of racial identity in an Afro-Ecuadorian region

    Student and teacher negotiations of racial identity in an Afro-Ecuadorian region International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education Volume 22, Issue 5 (September-October 2009) pages 563-584 DOI: 10.1080/09518390902915439 Ethan Allen Johnson, Assistant Professor of Black Studies Portland State University, Portland, Oregon In this article, using data collected primarily through interviews and observations the researcher explores…

  • Multiracial meditations

    Multiracial meditations The Portland State Vanguard Portland State University, Portland, Oregon 2012-02-13 Jeoffry Ray PSU panel to discuss growing up biracial in context of novel The Girl Who Fell from the Sky How does one begin to discuss the experience of belonging to more than one “race”? It’s really up to the participants,” said Dr.…

  • The Loving Story

    The Loving Story Home Box Office (HBO) 2012-02-14, 21:00 EST Nancy Buirski, Director and Producer In June 2, 1958, a white man named Richard Loving and his part-black, part-Cherokee fiancée Mildred Jeter travelled from Caroline County, VA to Washington, D.C. to be married. At the time, interracial marriage was illegal in 21 states, including Virginia.…

  • Post-Racial? Americans and Race in the Age of Obama

    Post-Racial? Americans and Race in the Age of Obama The Greenlining Institute Berkeley, California November 2011 26 pages Dr. Daniel Byrd, Research Director Bruce Mirken, Media Relations Coordinator Since the election of Barack Obama as the United States’ first African American president, there has been much discussion of whether this means the U.S. has become…

  • MFNW 2010: We are all MOsley WOtta

    MFNW 2010: We are all MOsley WOtta Oregon Music News 2010-09-09 Aaron Brandt Jason Graham is MOsley WOtta. So are you, and so am I. That core message of commonality is one good reason why MOWO is quickly gaining such a vast following–that, and tracks full of realistic humor, a bit of brain, and some…

  • MOsley WOtta

    MOsley WOtta Arts Beat Oregon Oregon Public Broadcasting TV 2011 Meet hip-hop artist Jason Graham and find out why “I am MOsley WOtta and so are you!” MOsley WOtta is a sly play-on-words meant to remind us that we are all “mostly water.” This inclusive, hip-hop reminder helps Bend-based man-behind-the-artist Jason Graham find family wherever…