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  • What is at the Root of White Anxiety?

    What is at the Root of White Anxiety? Three-Fifths: Voice of Clarity 2021-10-08 Frank Robinson Austin, Texas The most recent US Census reports a significant decline in the white population, while non-white and mixed-race categories notably increased. Researchers anticipate a reduction of white wealth and power. They expect this to trigger gerrymandering efforts while giving…

  • ‘People Assume I’m White. This is The Racism I See’

    ‘People Assume I’m White. This is The Racism I See’ Newsweek 2021-10-14 Nikki Barthelmess Nikki Barthelmess’ parents were Mexican American and Jewish, but people often assume she is white, not Mexican American. Nikki Barthelmess A few months ago, I answered a knock at my door. My neighbor, James*, launched into a complaint. “That silver Honda…

  • Race and Racism: When Racial Passing Becomes Racial Fraud

    Race and Racism: When Racial Passing Becomes Racial Fraud Virtual event on Zoom Rotman Institute of Philosophy, Western University London, Ontario, Canada Thursday, 2021-10-14, 19:00-20:30 EDT (2021-10-14, 23:00-00:30Z) Meena Krishnamurthy, Assistant Professor Department of Philosophy Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada In the past year and a half, race and racism have been at the forefront…

  • Jeremiah Paprocki becomes Cubs’ first African American public-address announcer

    There’s a booming new voice in Wrigleyville, and it belongs to 21-year-old Jeremiah Paprocki. The Cubs hired Paprocki to be their new public-address announcer, making him the first African American in team history to hold the position. He also is thought to be the youngest P.A. announcer in Major League Baseball.

  • Beyond being either-or: identification of multiracial and multiethnic Japanese

    Beyond being either-or: identification of multiracial and multiethnic Japanese Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies Volume 47, 2021 – Issue 4: Special Issue: Re-constructing Ways of Belonging: Cross-country Experiences of Multiethnic and Multiracial People pages 802-820 DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2019.1654155 Sayaka Osanami Törngren Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden Yuna…

  • Beyond Slavery’s Shadow: Free People of Color in the South

    Beyond Slavery’s Shadow: Free People of Color in the South University of North Carolina Press October 2021 76 pages 6.125 x 9.25 14 halftones, notes, bibl., index Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-6439-2 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-6438-5 Warren Eugene Milteer Jr., Assistant Professor of History University of North Carolina, Greensboro On the eve of the Civil War, most people…

  • Counterfactual Love Stories & Other Experiments

    The conceptual, language-driven short stories in “Counterfactual Love Stories & Other Experiments” are an exploration of not just mixed-race/hapa identity in Michigan (and the American Midwest), but also of the infinite ways in which stories can be told, challenged, celebrated, and subverted.

  • Sidesplitter: How to be from Two Worlds at Once

    One of the UK’s brightest and best comedians takes an incisive look at race and belonging.

  • High Yella: A Modern Family Memoir

    In his remarkable and moving memoir, Majors gathers the shards of a broken past to piece together a portrait of a man on an extraordinary journey toward Blackness, queerness, and parenthood.

  • Single Race

    Single Race Scary Mixed: Because Being Mixed Isn’t Scary Enough A Dafina Moore Site2020-09-17 Dafina Moore Single race privilege is not understanding I am not a single race. Single race privilege is trying to make me pick one of those races and not understanding why that is difficult. Single race privilege is trying to explain…