Category: Media Archive

  • Beyond The Chinese Connection: Contemporary Afro-Asian Cultural Production by Crystal S. Anderson (review) Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 18, Number 1, February 2015 pages 107-109 DOI: 10.1353/jaas.2015.0003 Edlie Wong, Associate Professor of English University of Maryland Anderson, Crystal S., Beyond The Chinese Connection: Contemporary Afro-Asian Cultural Production (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2013). Afro-Asian…

  • At a time when the mere sight of Petula Clark touching Harry Belafonte’s arm held the potential to upset delicate sensibilities, the half-human, half-Vulcan character Mr. Spock embodied an identity rarely acknowledged, much less seen, on television: a mixed-race person.

  • Muscogee Creek Indian Freedmen Band 2015 Conference Muscogee Creek Indian Freedmen Band Moore, Oklahoma 2015-02-17 Rhonda Kay Grayson For Immediate Release Muscogee Creek Indian Freedmen Band P.O. Box 6366 Moore, OK, 73135 The Muscogee Creek Indian Freedmen Band is thrilled to announce its 2015 conference. The conference theme is “Africans and Indians: Eating from the same…

  • Review: ‘An Octoroon,’ a Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Comedy About Race The New York Times 2015-02-26 Ben Brantley, Chief Theater Critic Walking on a stage covered with cotton balls is a tricky business. It’s all too easy to slip into a pratfall. And forget about running or dancing or hopping like a bunny, as the characters sometimes…

  • The Joshua Generation The New Yorker 2008-11-17 David Remnick, Editor Race and the campaign of Barack Obama. Barack Obama could not run his campaign for the Presidency based on political accomplishment or on the heroic service of his youth. His record was too slight. His Democratic and Republican opponents were right: he ran largely on…

  • The Ins and Outs of Diversity in the Dominican Republic Latina 2015-02-26 Cindy Rodriguez In an attempt to debunk the stereotypes on what exactly a “Dominican looks like,” Twitter user UsDominicans809 posted a photo of a group of beautiful women (er, possibly models?) who are all super diverse in physical identity along with a sassy…

  • Zélie Asava of Irish-Kenyan parentage with English citizenship, is a lecturer in film and media theory and national cinemas at Dundalk IT and University College Dublin. She explores mixed-raced identities and its representation in Irish, U.S. and French cinemas.

  • Census categories for mixed race and mixed ethnicity: impacts on data collection and analysis in the US, UK and NZ Public Health Published online: 2015-02-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2014.12.017 S. A. Valles, Assistant Professor Lyman Briggs College and Department of Philosophy Michigan State University R. S. Bhopal, Bruce and John Usher Professor of Public Health;Honorary Consultant in…

  • ‘I Didn’t Want to Be a Black Man’ Ebony 2014-08-27 Ben O’Keefe A biracial man on why he came to accept his Black identity My name is Ben O’Keefe and I am a “Halfrican American.” It’s a term that one of my fellow mixed-race friends, Adriana, and I have affectionately come to define ourselves by.…

  • Mestizaje and Public Opinion in Latin America Latin American Research Review Volume 48, Number 3 (2013) pages 130-152 DOI: 10.1353/lar.2013.0045 Edward Telles, Professor of Sociology Princeton University Denia Garcia Department of Sociology Princeton University Latin American elites authored and disseminated ideologies of mestizaje or race mixture, but does the general population value them today? Using the…