Category: Media Archive

  • How Race-Studies Scholars Can Respond to Their Haters Vitae A service of The Chronicle of Higher Education 2014-06-27 Stacey Patton, Senior Enterprise Reporter Graduate school prepares students for a range of intellectual and professional endeavors. Unfortunately, responding to scholarly insults and academic shade-throwing isn’t one of them. But for scholars in the fields of race…

  • ‘Stunning Portraits of Mixed Race Families’?: Slate’s Human Zoo of Race Mongrelization We Are Respectable Negroes: Happy Non-Threatening Coloured Folks, Even in the Age of Obama Wednesday, 2014-06-25 Chauncey DeVega, Editor and Founder Am I the only person who found Slate.com’s photo essay “Stunning Portraits of Mixed Race Families” to be very problematic? To my…

  • UCLA Mixed Heritage Conference 2014 – Mixed Stories Team Mixed Show University of California, Los Angeles Mixed Heritage Conference 2014 2014-06-18 Recorded at the Mixed Student Union at UCLA’s Mixed Heritage Conference, April 2014. Participants at the conference share their stories. *Our apologies to the people who we filmed but did not make it into…

  • Bill de Blasio and the Art of Political Image at… the Mermaid Parade The New York Times 2014-06-23 Vanessa Friedman, Chief Fashion Critic Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York with, from left, his son, Dante; his wife, Chirlane McCray; and his daughter, Chiara, at the Coney Island Mermaid Parade on Saturday. [Tina Fineberg/Associated Press]…

  • An Evening with Hip Hop Scholar/Activist and 2008 Green Party Vice Presidential Candidate, Rosa Clemente Yemaya Pictures California State University, Los Angeles 2014-05-08, 20:00 PDT 5151 State University Drive Annenberg Science Building 132 (Science Building Wing B, Lecture Hall) Los Angeles, California 90032 From May 8, 2014. The Pan-African Studies Department at California State University,…

  • Stunning Portraits of Mixed-Race Families Slate 2014-06-24 David Rosenberg, Editor of Slate’s Behold blog Fascinated by the evolution of identity, the photographer Cyjo, who styles her name CYJO, has created a series of portraits that examines how race, ethnicity, and heritage contextualize a person as an individual, and how they coexist within the framework of…

  • Radical Love: A Transatlantic Dialogue about Race and Mixed Race Asian American Literary Review Volume 4, Issue 2, Pandora’s Box (2013) pages 15-26 Daniel McNeil, Ida B. Wells-Barnett Professor of African and Black Diaspora Studies DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois Leanne Taylor, Assistant Professor of Education Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada Boy meets girl. Boy…

  • Latinos and Whiteness: On Being Sold An Empty White Privilege Knapsack Race-work, Race-love 2014-06-13 Blanca E. Vega (@BlancaVNYC), writer, educator, and race-worker Sophia (@sophiagurule) on May 30th replied to my tweet about White Supremacy and Latinidad: “‪@BlancaVNYC : and yep ‪#nuncamas. this [choosing White on the Census] has haunted/shaped my life, and used against me,…

  • Say Hapa, With Care AAPI Voices: Amplifying the voices of Asian Pacific America. 2014-06-18 Sharon Chang, Guest Columnist What does Hapa mean?  One way to know is to look at the ways in which the word is used. It’s a “Hawaiian word for ‘mixed-race’,” says Hapa Kitchen Supper Club, “coined to refer to people of…