Category: Media Archive

  • Redefining — by not defining — biracialism The Daily Illini: The independent student newspaper at the University of Illinois since 1871 Tuesday, 2015-03-31 Audrey Majors, Opinions columnist Last week controversy arose over Japan’s 2015 Miss Universe contestant, Ariana Miyamoto, because she’s biracial— something critics, many of whom are Japanese, have taken issue with. Miyamoto has…

  • Dismantling the Racial Paradise Stanford University Press Blog March 2015 Tiffany Joseph, Assistant Professor of Sociology; Affiliated Faculty of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York How migration to and from the U.S. is transforming notions of race in Brazil. I still remember my first trip to Brazil—I was amazed…

  • Race on the Move: Brazilian Migrants and the Global Reconstruction of Race Stanford University Press February 2015 240 pages Cloth ISBN: 9780804792202 Paper ISBN: 9780804794350 Digital ISBN: 9780804794398 Tiffany D. Joseph, Assistant Professor of Sociology; Affiliated Faculty of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York Race on the Move takes…

  • Black On Black Crime And The Peculiar Responsibility Of Biracial Positionality The Magic Mulatto 2015-03-28 Brett Russell Coleman, Doctoral Student of Community & Prevention Research University of Illinois, Chicago In this piece I am 1) making the argument that anti-blackness is pervasive, and 2) concluding that biracial (black/white) people have a peculiar responsibility to confront…

  • Race In The Jewish Community: A Mischling’s Perspective The Jerusalem Post 2015-03-30 Ella Bennett Introduction As a person of mixed-race black and maternal Jewish heritage, I am a mischling and feel highly motivated to stand equally against racism and anti-Semitism.  When I go out and about in the Jewish community people naturally see my colour…

  • Comedy Central® Names Trevor Noah as Next Host of “The Daily Show” Comedy Central® Press Release 2015-03-30 Press Contact Info: Renata Luczak Eve Kenny 31 Year-Old Comedian to Take the Helm Later This Year NEW YORK, March 30, 2015 – Trevor Noah has been selected to become the next host of the Emmy® and Peabody®…

  • How can I be Jewish when I am black? The Jerusalem Post 2015-02-09 Ella Bennett This is a hypothetical question that I’m always, almost asked by my many Jewish friends, associates and acquaintances. In my haste I’d assumed the answer to be obvious until I discovered the subtlety behind which the real dynamics of the…

  • Kamala Harris, California’s Attorney General, Leaps to Forefront of Senate Race The New York Times 2015-03-27 Adam Nagourney, Los Angeles Bureau Chief CASTAIC, Calif. — When Kamala D. Harris, a Democrat, was the newly elected district attorney of San Francisco in 2004, she walked into a firestorm after deciding not to pursue the death penalty…

  • Trevor Noah to Succeed Jon Stewart on ‘The Daily Show’ The New York Times 2015-03-30 Dave Itzkoff, Culture Reporter In December, Trevor Noah, a 31-year-old comedian, made his debut as an on-air contributor on “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart,” offering his outsider’s perspective, as a biracial South African, on the United States. “I never…

  • Rivas awarded NEH Summer Stipends award to work on book News From Marshall University Huntington, West Virginia 2015-03-25 Dave Wellman, Director of Communications Telephone: (304) 696-7153 HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Dr. Zelideth Maria Rivas, an assistant professor of Japanese in Marshall University’s Department of Modern Languages, has been awarded a “very competitive” National Endowment for the…