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  • Millennials Are More Racist Than They Think

    Millennials Are More Racist Than They Think Politico Magazine 2015-03-09 Sean McElwee Just Look at the Numbers News about race in America these days is almost universally negative. Longstanding wealth, income and employment gaps between whites and people of color are increasing, and tensions between police and minority communities around the country are on the…

  • This Passover Choose Judaism

    This Passover Choose Judaism My Jewish Learning Be’chol Lashon 2015-03-10 Alex Barnett My wife and I are an interracial couple. I am a White, Ashkenazi Jewish man from New York. She is a Black woman from Detroit, raised in the Lutheran faith, who converted (to Jewish, not to White. She’s still Black). Our 3 year…

  • Daughter Discovers Father’s Black Lineage

    Daughter Discovers Father’s Black Lineage National Public Radio 2007-10-02 Farai Chideya, Host Famed literary critic Anatole Broyard carried a big secret most of his life. He was a black man passing as white. His daughter, Bliss Broyard, writes about how she learned of her father’s hidden life and explored her black ancestry in the memoir…

  • We are Afro-Mexican|”I am Blaxican”

    We are Afro-Mexican|”I am Blaxican” Life as Karen: Just setting my soul free. 2015-03-12 Karen Salinas This week I decided to interview my dad; my inspiration for this project. The interview was conducted in Spanish, the English version is translated! Esta semana decidi entrevistar a mi papa; la inspiracion para este proyecto. K: ¿De donde…

  • ‘A Chosen Exile:’ Examining African Americans Passing As White In America [VIDEO]

    ‘A Chosen Exile:’ Examining African Americans Passing As White In America [VIDEO] NewsOne Now NewsOne 2015-02-27 Author Allyson Hobbs joined Roland Martin on “NewsOne Now” to discuss her new book, “A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life.” Hobbs an assistant professor of American History at Stanford University told Martin that when…

  • MIXED RACE 3.0

    MIXED RACE 3.0 Cultural Weekly 2015-02-28 Ulli K. Ryder, Ph.D. Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts Ryder, Ulli K. and Marcia Alesan Dawkins (eds.), Mixed Race 3.0: Risk and Reward in the Digital Age (Los Angeles: USC Annenberg Press, 2015). We are scholars who have been thinking with a “mixed mind-set” for quite a while. We are…

  • The Face of Japan Is Changing, But Some Aren’t Ready

    The Face of Japan Is Changing, But Some Aren’t Ready Kokatu 2015-03-13 Brian Ashcraft Eriana Miyamoto Change happens slowly in Japan, but it does happen. You wake up one day, and things that weren’t possible years ago are happening today. Nowhere is that more evident than in the woman who will represent Japan in the…

  • Tony Terrell Robinson was shot dead by Madison police. This is how it happened

    Tony Terrell Robinson was shot dead by Madison police. This is how it happened The Guardian 2015-03-13 Oliver Laughland, Senior Reporter Guardian US Zoe Sullivan Robinson as a child. ‘There is something so beautiful about a black kid, especially in America, trying to make it against all odds and fucking up so bad, but then…

  • Mixed Heritage Week 2015: AIDE Presents: “What Are You?” Exploring Biracial and Multiracial Identity (DICE)

    Mixed Heritage Week 2015: AIDE Presents: “What Are You?” Exploring Biracial and Multiracial Identity (DICE) The Ohio State University Student Life Multicultural Center, Alonso Family Room 3034 Ohio Union, 1739 N. High Street Columbus, Ohio Thursday, 2015-03-26, 20:00-21:00 EDT (Local Time) This presentation will provide an overview of the changing racial demographics in the United…

  • San Francisco Lithographer: African American Artist Grafton Tyler Brown

    San Francisco Lithographer: African American Artist Grafton Tyler Brown Arts Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) July 2014 Amy De Simone, Research Consultant Kansas State University by Robert J. Chandler. University of Oklahoma Press, February 2014. 264 p. ill. ISBN 9780806144108 (cl.), $36.95. More than just a book about one man, San Francisco Lithographer: African…