Category: Media Archive

  • Seoul International Seminar on Racism/Mixed Race in Korea and Japan Yonsei University, South Korea 2014-06-21 through 2014-06-22 Co-organized & Sponsored by Department of Cultural Anthropology & Institute of Korean Studies, Yonsei University …1:30-3:30 pm Mixed race/blood in modern Japan (Chair: Lee Sang Kook, Yonsei University) A.K.M. Skarpelis (NYU Sociology and Institute of Social Science, University…

  • Search through own heritage leads evangelist to story about enslaved mixed-race pastor The Advocate Baton Rouge, Louisiana 2014-06-16 Mark H. Hunter, Special to The Advocate If local school district officials knew then what Sammy Tippit knows now, he might not have been allowed to attend Istrouma High School. Tippit, 66, is a world-renowned evangelist who…

  • On The Census, Who Checks ‘Hispanic,’ Who Checks ‘White,’ And Why Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2014-06-16 Gene Demby, Lead Blogger We’ve been talking a lot lately about how who fills out the Census in what way. It’s an ongoing preoccupation of Code Switch, and one shared by Julie…

  • When Dad Wiped Away My Tears: Accepting a Child’s Vulnerability Psychology Today 2014-06-15 Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu Ed.D. Stanford University I thought summer camp would be endless fun. My two best friends were going and I wanted to go with them so badly I asked my dad to lie about my age so I could get in.…

  • Black Identity and Racism Collide in Brazil The Root 2014-06-17 Dion Rabouin The country’s complex history with race gains the spotlight as the World Cup attempts to address the recent wave of racist attacks against black players. Before teams representing their countries from around the world arrived in Brazil, the country’s president, Dilma Rousseff, took…

  • Japanese Brazilians celebrate mixed heritage Al Jazeera 2014-06-17 Jillian Kestler-D’Amour, Online Producer Sao Paulo, Brazil – The room was a mixture of Brazilian green and yellow and Japanese red and white, as more than 200 members of the city’s large Japanese community turned out to watch the country of their ancestors take on Cote d’Ivoire…

  • People from Mexico show stunning amount of genetic diversity Science 2014-06-12 Lizzie Wade, Latin America Correspondent Imagine if people from Kansas and California were as genetically distinct from each other as someone from Germany is from someone from Japan. That’s the kind of remarkable genetic variation that scientists have now found within Mexico, thanks to…

  • Representations of mixed race Asian Americans in popular culture

  • ‘Mixed Blood’ Ecns.cn: The Official English-language website of China News Service 2014-06-05 To many, the US is no doubt a cultural melting pot as over the years people from various ethnic backgrounds have inhabited the land and collectively created an all new culture. Yet, all the way on the other side of the Earth, a…

  • Self-reported pigmentary phenotypes and race are significant but incomplete predictors of Fitzpatrick skin phototype in an ethnically diverse population Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology Available online: 2014-06-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2014.05.023 Steven Y. He, BS Department of Dermatology University of California, San Francisco Charles E. McCulloch, PhD Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics University of California,…