Category: Media Archive

  • There is a Chinese proverb that says: ‘It is more profitable to raise geese than daughters.’ But geese, like daughters, know the obligation to return home. In her exquisite first collection, Sarah Howe explores a dual heritage, journeying back to Hong Kong in search of her roots.

  • Both native and foreign: How being of mixed race affects Japanese students The Cavalier Daily Charlottesville, Virginia 2014-07-01 Emily Gorham I have now entered week five of my three month stay in Japan as an intern for the Ibaraki Christian University’s English department. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about what I’ve termed the…

  • Kenji Kuramitsu: Critical Mixed Race Christology at the Reformation Project in Kansas City The Reformation Project 2015-11-30 Kenji Kuramitsu’s workshop on Critical Mixed Race Christology at the Reformation Project in Kansas City. Recorded November 7, 2015.

  • The Case for Scholarly Reparations Berkeley Journal of Sociology 2016-01-11 Julian Go, Professor of Sociology Boston University Race, the history of sociology, and the marginalized man – lessons from Aldon Morris’ book “The Scholar Denied” If Aldon Morris in The Scholar Denied is right, then everything I learned as a sociology PhD student at the…

  • The Likely Persistence of a White Majority The American Prospect Winter 2016, Volume 27, Number 1 (2016-01-11) Richard Alba, Distinguished Professor of Sociology Graduate Center, City University of New York Has the notion of demography as destiny ever enjoyed so much credence? The disappearance of a white majority in the United States by the middle…

  • The Black Irish Onscreen: Representing Black and Mixed-Race Identities on Irish Film and Television by Zélie Asava (review) Black Camera Volume 7, Number 1, Fall 2015 (New Series) pages 267-270 Isabelle Le Corff Asava, Zélie, The Black Irish Onscreen: Representing Black and Mixed-Race Identities on Irish Film and Television (Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am…

  • Black and Jewish: Language and Multiple Strategies for Self-Presentation American Jewish History Volume 100, Number 1, January 2016 pages 51-71 DOI: 10.1353/ajh.2016.0001 Sarah Bunin Benor, Associate Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles, California In January 2014, hip-hop star Drake hosted “Saturday Night Live” (SNL), opening with a skit…

  • BBC World TV Interview Re Rachel Dolezal & Passing Marcia Dawkins 2015-06-12 Marcia Dawkins, Assistant Professor of Arts and Humanities The Minerva Schools at KGI, San Francisco, California Dr. Dee chatted roadside with BBC World News about the firestorm raging around Rachel Dolezal, the white Spokane, Washington NAACP leader who allegedly passes as black.

  • During my first day of school in the United States I was told by a fellow classmate to watch out for the morenos. I was taken aback by the warning and in my bewilderment asked how to tell them apart. As a teenager trying to find his place in a new country, race was a…

  • Quicksand and Passing – Nella Larsen The Writes of Woman: Reviews of books by female writers 2015-11-24 Naomi Frisby Quicksand and Passing are two novellas packaged together and reissued by Serpent’s Tale in the UK. They both share the key theme of being a woman of colour in America early in the twentieth century but…