Category: Media Archive

  • Association of Mixed Students hosts celebratory ‘Loving Week’ Student Life: the independent newspaper of Washington University in St. Louis since 1878 Volume 136, Number 38 (Thursday, 2015-02-12) Page 3 Noa Yadidi, Staff Reporter Featuring speed dating, free cupcakes and a co-programmed dance, this year’s Loving Week, hosted by the Association of Mixed Students, kicked off…

  • One Playwright’s ‘Obligation’ To Confront Race And Identity In The U.S. Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity All Things Considered National Public Radio 2015-02-16 Jeff Lunden Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins may be only 30 years old, but he’s already compiled an impressive resume. His theatrical works, which look at race and identity in America,…

  • Laura Kina: Blue Hawai’i Harold B. Lemmerman Gallery New Jersey City University Hepburn Hall, Room 323 2039 Kennedy Boulevard Jersey City, New Jersey 2015-01-27 through 2015-03-03 Artist Reception: 2015-01-29, 16:30-19:30 EST (Local Time) Artist Talk: 2015-03-02, 17:30-18:30 EST (Local Time) Laura Kina, Canefield Workers, 2013, oil on canvas, 30 x 45 inches. “You won’t find…

  • Dorothy Roberts: Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race University of California, Los Angeles School of Law 385 Charles E. Young Drive East 1242 Law Building Los Angeles, California 90095 2015-02-19, 17:00-18:30 PST (Local Time) Room: TBD Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner…

  • Mixed 101: Creating a Space to Explore Mixed Race Identity Duke University Durham, North Carolina 27708 Counseling & Psych Services (CAPS) Resource Room 0010 Bryan Center – Multicultural Center Thursdays, 17:00-18:30 EST (Local Time) on February 12, 19, 26, and March 5 Marcella Wagner and Cat Goyeneche CAPS is offering a weekly group for students…

  • One Drop of Love Northern Arizona University Ashurst Hall Flagstaff, Arizona Wednesday, 2015-02-18, 18:00 MST (Local Time) Performed by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni. Presented by NAU College of Education One Drop of Love, is an hour-long one woman show. This funny, interactive and moving memoir explores history, family, race, class, justice and love and takes audiences from…

  • Are Mixed Race Asian/Whites, “Basically White”? Multiracial Asian Families: thinking about race, families, children, and the intersection of mixed ID/Asian 2015-02-17 Sharon H. Chang [She] never told the son who was crippled by polio about her relationship with his father. All she said was that the man was an American, a sergeant in the Army.…

  • Once White in America Nation of Change 2015-02-16 Jane Lazarre Jane Lazarre provides a very intimate post-Ferguson view of what it means to her to raise her two black sons in the “afterlife of such a world.” Are we living in a world of American barbarism? For Adam and Khary Black bodies swingin’ in the…

  • Brother from Another Mother The New Yorker 2015-02-23 Zadie Smith Key and Peele’s chameleon comedy. The wigs on “Key and Peele” are the hardest-working hairpieces in show business. Individually made, using pots of hair clearly labelled—“Short Black/Brown, Human,” “Long Black, Human”—they are destined for the heads of a dazzling array of characters: old white sportscasters…

  • “Charcoal and Cinnamon” explores the continuing redefinition of women of African descent in the Caribbean, focusing on the manner in which literature has influenced their treatment and contributed to the formation of their shifting identities.