Category: Media Archive

  • Bridging Asian and Asian American Studies through Critical Mixed Race UCLA International Institute Asia Institute 2016-05-25 Samantha Fletcher (UCLA 2016) Professor Emma Teng of MIT recently examined mixed-race identities in the U.S., China and Hong Kong as part of the Taiwan Studies Lecture Series of the Asia Institute. UCLA International Institute, May 25, 2016 —…

  • Becky and Mia – Belonging and Not Belonging The Listening Project: It’s surprising what you hear when you listen BBC Radio 4 2016-06-03 Fi Glover introduces a conversation about the surprising challenges facing a mixed race family at home and abroad. Another in the series that proves it’s surprising what you hear when you listen.…

  • Mixed Student Union Hosts Fourth Annual Heritage Conference Pacific Ties University of California, Los Angeles 2016-05-13 Ayesha Sheikh UCLA’s Mixed Student Union (MSU) hosted their fourth annual Mixed Heritage Conference on April 30 in the James West Alumni Center. The organization’s goal for hosting the conference on campus, according to the organization’s co-director Ariel Pezner,…

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  • I’m mixed race. That doesn’t mean you can ask me, “What are you?” The Tempest 2016-05-21 Maya Williams I’m not your exotic half-breed toy, so don’t treat me, or anyone else, like one. “Which parent is white?” many have asked me. That question tends to bother me as much as the “What are you?” question,…

  • On Becoming Black, Becoming White and Being Human: Rachel Dolezal and the Fluidity of Race Truthdig 2015-06-18 Channing G. Joseph Library of Congress For decades, no one knew my cousin Ernest Torregano was black. At least, no one who mattered in his new life. Not the clients or associates of the prominent bankruptcy law firm…

  • The astonishing fact that he had Irish roots, being descended from Abe Grady, an Irishman from Ennis, County Clare only became known later in life.

  • This web series asks black women around the world to explain what beauty means to them Fusion 2016-06-02 Tahirah Hairston Courtesy of Un-Ruly They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but that’s not the impression you’d get from flipping through a fashion magazine. The images we see in mainstream media every day…

  • #myLovingDay: How the Lovings’ trials paved the way for today’s multiracial families The Los Angeles Times 2016-06-03 Michelle Maltais Mildred and Richard Loving, convicted in Virginia of marrying while interracial. (Associated Press) I like to say that I am because of Loving. Mildred and Richard Loving. In the early 1970s when my parents met, the…

  • Book Review: Mixed-race youth and schooling: the fifth minority Ethnic and Racial Studies Published online: 2016-06-01 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2016.1190852 Remi Joseph-Salisbury University of Leeds Mixed-race youth and schooling: the fifth minority, by Sandra Winn Tutwiler, Abingdon, Routledge, 2016, xv + 241 pp., £29.95 (paperback), ISBN-13 978-1138021938 Mixed-race youth and schooling offers a welcome contribution to a sparse…