Category: Media Archive

  • Play means to help people of mixed race find sense of belonging MPR News Minnesota Public Radio 2015-12-15 Marianne Combs, Arts and Culture Reporter “Purple Cloud,” written by Jessica Huang and directed by Randy Reyes, looks at three generations of hapa, or mixed race, Chinese immigrants as they search to find a place where they…

  • Rethinking Multiracial Formation in the United States: Toward an Intersectional Approach Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Volume 2, Number 1 (January 2016) pages 27-41 DOI: 10.1177/2332649215591864 Celeste Vaughan Curington Department of Sociology University of Massachusetts, Amherst This article forwards an integrative multiracial formation perspective that analyzes race, class, and gender as complex social systems, predicated…

  • Putting History in Its Place: An Interview with Bernardine Evaristo Contemporary Women’s Writing Volume 9 Issue 3 November 2015 pages 433-448 DOI: 10.1093/cww/vpv003 Jennifer Gustar, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada Bernardine Evaristo was born in Woolwich, London, to an English mother of Irish descent…

  • Rachel Dolezal: ‘I wasn’t identifying as black to upset people. I was being me’ The Guardian 2015-12-13 Chris McGreal, Senior Writer Guardian US Rachel Dolezal at her home in Spokane. Photograph: Annie Kuster for the Guardian She became a global hate figure this year when she was outed as a ‘race faker’. Here, she talks…

  • Choose Your Own Identity The New York Times Magazine 2015-12-14 Bonnie Tsui A series of portraits from “The Hapa Project” by the artist Kip Fulbeck. Kip Fulbeck/The Hapa Project I never realized how little I understood race until I tried to explain it to my 5-year-old son. Our family story doesn’t seem too complicated: I’m…

  • First Baptist unveils historic marker The Tennesseean Nashville, Tennessee 2015-12-09 Jennifer Easton If people of faith go to First Baptist Church on East Winchester Street looking for a sign, they’ll find it. Sumner County’s oldest known African-American church celebrated another milestone Dec. 6 with the dedication of a historic marker commemorating the 150-year-old church’s early…

  • Ghost Stories: Allyson Hobbs uncovers the fascinating history of racial passing in the United States Chapter 16: a community of Tennessee writers, readers & passersby 2015-12-11 Aram Goudsouzian, Professor of History University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee In A Chosen Exile, Allyson Hobbs analyzes how and why black people passed as white throughout American history. An…

  • No one knew Staceyann’s mother was pregnant until a dangerously small baby was born on the floor of her grandmother’s house in Lottery, Jamaica, on Christmas Day. Staceyann’s mother did not want her, and her father was not present. No one, except her grandmother, thought Staceyann would survive.

  • Mistura for the fans: performing mixed-race Japanese Brazilianness in Japan Journal of Intercultural Studies Volume 36, Issue 6, 2015 pages 710-728 DOI: 10.1080/07256868.2015.1095714 Zelideth María Rivas, Assistant Professor of Japanese Department of Modern Languages Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia In this article, I examine fans’ consumption of mixed-race Japanese Brazilian female bodies in Japan. The article…

  • Research continues to uncover early childhood as a crucial time when we set the stage for who we will become. In the last decade, we have also seen a sudden massive shift in America’s racial makeup with the majority of the current under-5 age population being children of color. Asian and multiracial are the fastest…