Category: Media Archive

  • Christmas without Ramadan Mixed Roots Stories 2015-01-09 Zena F. Itani I’ve never really liked Christmas. It was the most forced family event of the year, defined by spectacular displays of anxiety from my mother and bad temper served up by my father, always in time for guests. While that doesn’t sound much different from others’…

  • Young Artists: Saya Woolfalk W November 2008 Timothy McCahill For the last two years Saya Woolfalk has practically lived in No Place, the futuristic work she is creating through painting, sculpture and video. So it’s not surprising that when she talks about it, the line between fact and fiction seems a little fuzzy. More than…

  • Al Madrigal’s New Special ‘Half Like Me’ Is What Latinos Have Been Waiting For The Huffington Post 2015-01-13 Ana Maria Benedetti Al Madrigal goes on a journey of self-discovery… starting with how to pronounce his own name. In his new one-hour special “Half Like Me,” premiering on Fusion on January 22, The Daily Show’s senior…

  • chado de Assis is among the most original creative minds in Brazils rich, four-century-long literary tradition. Miss Caldwell’s critical and biographical study explores Machado’s purpose, meaning, and artistic method in each of his nine novels, published between 1872 and 1908.

  • Don’t put race in a box The Eastern Echo Ypsilanti, Michigan 2015-01-11 C.A. Joseph Peters One ought to talk about race like one talks about their mother’s age: very rarely and very discreetly. Given the Census Bureau’s outdated categories, I say it’s time for one of those rare and discreet conversations. In January 2013, Haya…

  • Critical Mixed-Race In Transnational Perspective: The US, China, And Hong Kong, 1842-1943 Center for East Asian Studies Lathrop East Asia Library, Room 224 Stanford University 518 Memorial Way, Stanford, California Thursday, 2015-01-15, 16:15-17:30 PST (Local Time) Emma Teng, T.T. and Wei Fong Chao Professor of Asian Civilizations Massachusetts Institute of Technology This paper will examine…

  • California Attorney General Announces Run for Senate The New York Times 2015-01-13 Adam Nagourney, Los Angeles Bureau Chief Kamala Harris Makes Bid for Barbara Boxer’s Old Seat LOS ANGELES — No exploratory committees here: Kamala D. Harris, the California attorney general, announced on Tuesday she was running for the Senate seat that is opening up…

  • Caught In-between Mixed Humans ~ Reflections on occupying a space of inbetweenness. Persistently grappling with identity. 2015-01-13 Brian Kamanzi Cape Town, South Africa Caught In-between. So for the longest time. I had grown up thinking of myself as an “almost” Indian. A half-Indian. Half caste. Whatever the hell sort of awful approximation of an authentic…

  • “The Christened Mulatresses”: Euro-African Families in a Slave-Trading Town The William and Mary Quarterly Volume 70, Number 2, April 2013 pages 371-398 DOI: 10.5309/willmaryquar.70.2.0371 Pernille Ipsen, Assistant Professor Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, Department of History University of Wisconsin, Madison “MULATRESSE Lene”—or Lene Kühberg, as she is also called in the Danish sources—grew up…

  • CMRS Mixed-Race Irish Film Keynote Links Mixed Roots Stories 2015-01-11 Zélie Asava, Lecturer and Joint-Programme Director of Video and Film Dundalk Institute of Technology, Louth, Ireland Following my keynote on mixed representations in contemporary Irish cinema and television at the 2014 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference, here are some links to the films discussed… View all…