Category: Media Archive

  • Raquel Cepeda is a fighter. The renowned writer, journalist and filmmaker is clad in light blue patterned tights and a gray crop top, with her hair pulled back in a ponytail— she is furiously jabbing a black Everlast bag. On this chilly Friday afternoon, we’re at Mendez Boxing where Cepeda spends a good amount of…

  • Fr. Virgilio Elizondo Takes His Own Life The Rivard Report: Urban. Independent. All About San Antonio. San Antonio, Texas 2016-03-14 Robert Rivard, Director Fr. Virgilio Elizondo, one of San Antonio’s most accomplished and beloved Catholic priests whose work brought him recognition in Latin America and Europe and an esteemed faculty position at the University of…

  • Allyson Hobbs, A Chosen Exile, in conversation with Helena Brantley Kepler’s Books 1010 El Camino Real Menlo Park, California 94025 Tuesday, 2016-03-15, 19:30 PDT (Local Time) Presented by Peninsula Arts & Letters and Kepler’s Books Join us for a look back at the history of racial passing, and a topical discussion of race and identity…

  • “Race Is Not a Determinative Factor”: Mixed Race Children and Custody Cases in Canada Canadian Journal of Family Law Volume 29, Number 2, 2015 pages 309- Susan B. Boyd, Professor Emerita of Law; Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Peter A. Allard School of Law University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Krisha…

  • The Brain Likes Categories. Where Should It Put Mixed-Race People? Shots: Health News from NPR National Public Radio 2016-03-15 Katherine Du Humans like to place things in categories and can struggle when things can’t easily be categorized. That also applies to people, a study finds, and the brain’s visual biases may play a role in…

  • Is it time to ditch the term ‘black, Asian and minority ethnic’ (BAME)? The Guardian 2015-05-22 Lola Okolosie, Joseph Harker, Leah Green, and Emma Dabiri This week, former chairman of the commission for racial equality Trevor Phillips gave a speech in which he suggested that phrases such as black and minority ethnic (BME) and black,…

  • In two national samples, we examined the influence of interracial exposure in one’s local environment on the dynamic process underlying race perception and its evaluative consequences.

  • In-Between: Latina Feminist Phenomenology, Multiplicity, and the Self State University of New York Press April 2016 296 pages Hardcover ISBN13: 978-1-4384-5977-6 Electronic ISBN13: 978-1-4384-5978-3 Mariana Ortega, Professor of Philosophy John Carroll University, University Heights, Ohio Draws from Latina feminism, existential phenomenology, and race theory to explore the concept of selfhood. This original study intertwining Latina…

  • Seeking Participants: Experiences of People who have Biological Parents of Different Racial Backgrounds University at Albany, State University of New York 2016-03-14 Michael Gale Experiences of racism have been found to be inversely linked to health and mental health among racial minority individuals, including those who identify as biracial or multiracial. Mixed race theorists have…

  • What Would It Mean To Have A ‘Hapa’ Bachelorette? Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2016-03-13 Akemi Johnson On a recent episode of The Bachelor, the ABC dating reality show that ends its 20th season Monday night, contestant Caila Quinn brings Ben Higgins home to meet her interracial family. “Have…