Category: Media Archive

  • As the population of mixed-race Japanese—popularly called hāfu—grows, entertainers and athletes with bicultural backgrounds are increasingly prominent. However, most of those considered hāfu in Japan live normal, private lives, struggling daily with curiosity, prejudice, and their own identity conflicts. Whole, a new short film, takes up the issues facing just such people through the story…

  • Yannick Nézet-Séguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra’s recording of ‘Florence Price: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3’ has been nominated for a Grammy Award.

  • An Overdue Ovation for Florence Price Little Rock Soirée 2021-09-29 Heather Honaker Photo of Florence Price by G. Nelidoff, courtesy of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra. “I am a woman, and I have some Negro blood in my veins – and you will understand some of the difficulties that confront one in such a position. Please…

  • A reader seeks advice on dealing with people who undermine her experience as a mixed-race woman.

  • The American movie industry has a long, problematic history with stories about racial passing. But the actor-writer-director Rebecca Hall is trying to tell a new kind of story.

  • My Complicated Relationship with Passing for White TruJuLo Media 2021-11-19 Fanshen Cox, Actor, Educator, Writer, Producer This week I share my experience with the concept of passing for white as I watch the #Netflix film #Passing starring #TessaThompson and #RuthNegga and directed by #RebeccaHall. I share important books and history lessons I’ve learned as I…

  • Mixed-Race Melodrama: Métisse Dr Zélie Asava: Rethinking Representation 2020-12-14 Zélie Asava, Academic. Speaker. Author. Métisse [Mixed-Race] (Kassovitz, France, 1993) adheres to the ethics of beur cinema by reimagining the French nuclear family as black, mixed and white through its central characters. As a pioneering work it is flawed but, by directly engaging with issues of…

  • What the Coloring of America Requires of White People Three-Fifths 2021-11-08 Frank Robinson Austin, Texas The Census makes clear that America’s demographics are changing. The percentage of white Americans dropped, while percentages of people of color, of multiethnic and multiracial people, increased. Welcome to our emerging reality. To some whites, this is the dreaded harbinger…

  • Uncloaking a Lost Cause: Decolonizing ancestry estimation in the United States American Journal of Biological Anthropology Volume 175, Issue 2, June 2021 (Special Issue: Race reconciled II: Interpreting and communicating biological variation and race in 2021) pages 422-436 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.24212 Elizabeth A. DiGangi, Associate Professor of Anthropology Binghamton University, State University of New York, Binghamton,…

  • Rebecca Hall’s Passing Says The Most In The Silences Elle 2021-11-12 Christine Jean-Baptiste Montréal, Quebec Passing opens on a busy street in 1920s New York. A mysterious woman (Tessa Thompson) is roaming through Manhattan. In this part of town, she anxiously hides behind a wide-brimmed hat covering half her face. It’s every bit intentional. When…