Category: Media Archive

  • Mixed-race in Oregon The Asian Reporter Portland, Oregon Volume 26, Number 12 (2016-06-20) ISSN: 1094-9453 page 6, columns 2-3 Dmae Roberts, Writer, Producer, Media and Theatre Artist I received some exciting news this month. I was selected as one of the speakers for the Oregon Humanities Conversation Project, a program that brings people together to…

  • These 2 Ads Might Say Everything About How Global Racism Really Is Multiracial Asian Families: thinking about race, families, children, and the intersection of mixed ID/Asian 2016-06-26 Sharon H. Chang sigh. SIGH. Siiiiiiiiigh. Alright that’s done. I want (pause) — well I don’t want, but feel like I need to show you two TV ads…

  • Matthew McConaughey Can’t Stop Being a Badass White Savior in The Free State of Jones The Stranger 2016-06-22 Ijeoma Oluo Watch the magical negroes heal Matthew McConaughey from his wounds that he received while badassing his way into exile. Ever since the end of the first season of True Detective I’ve really been wanting more…

  • Barack Obama, the President of Black America? The New York Times 2016-06-24 Michael Eric Dyson, Professor of Sociology Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. What the haters and the hagiographers get wrong. It was a crucial speech, high-stakes even for a man used to giving important speeches: The first black president of the United States had to…

  • With “A Seminole Legend,” Betty Mae Jumper joins the ranks of Native American women who are coming forward to tell their life experiences.

  • Martyrs of Miscegenation: Racial and National Identities in Nineteenth-Century Mexico Hispanófila Volume 132 (2001) pages 25-42 Lee Joan Skinner, Associate Professor of Spanish Claremont McKenna College The two most powerful critical paradigms for dealing with the relationship between literature and national identity in nineteenth—century Latin America have been those established by Benedict Anderson and Doris Sommer. In Anderson’s…

  • Black Hebrew Israelites Celebrate Rabbi Who Founded Their Century-Old Movement Forward 2016-06-24 Sam Kestenbaum, Staff Writer This weekend black Israelites will gather across New York City to celebrate their spiritual patriarch — a rabbi from Harlem who helped establish America’s black Hebrew-Israelite movement a century ago. “We thank the Most High for our beloved Chief…

  • Review: Matthew McConaughey Rebels Against Rebels in ‘Free State of Jones’ The New York Times 2016-06-23 A. O. Scott, Film Critic Matthew McConaughey, left, and Jacob Lofland in “Free State of Jones.” Credit Murray Close/STX Entertainment “Free State of Jones” begins on the battlefield, with a flurry of the kind of immersive combat action that…

  • Indian allies and white antagonists: toward an alternative mestizaje on Mexico’s Costa Chica Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies Published online: 2015-10-05 DOI: 10.1080/17442222.2015.1094873 Laura A. Lewis, Professor of Latin American Anthropology University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom San Nicolás Tolentino, Guerrero, Mexico, is a ‘mixed’ black-Indian agricultural community on the coastal belt of Mexico’s…

  • States of Denial Fordham Law News: From New York City To You 2016-06-04 When Barack Obama was first elected president in 2008, some pundits declared the United States to have finally reached a triumphal post-racial stage, an era of long-awaited racial harmony after the horrors of slavery and Jim Crow segregation. Yet, almost a decade…