Category: Communications/Media Studies

  • Shifting race: how language fails the ‘mixed-race’ experience

  • How To Tell Someone They Sound Racist Ill Doctrine 2008-07-21 Jay Smooth You gotta use some strategy. See more of this discussion here.

  • Hispanic Journalists To Survey Race In Spanish-Language TV After Univision Incident The Huffington Post 2015-03-17 Roque Planas Carolina Moreno The National Hispanic Journalists Association applauded Univision’s decision to fire host Rodner Figueroa, after he compared first lady Michelle Obama to a character from “Planet of the Apes” during a segment of “El Gordo Y La…

  • MIXED RACE 3.0 Cultural Weekly 2015-02-28 Ulli K. Ryder, Ph.D. Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts Ryder, Ulli K. and Marcia Alesan Dawkins (eds.), Mixed Race 3.0: Risk and Reward in the Digital Age (Los Angeles: USC Annenberg Press, 2015). We are scholars who have been thinking with a “mixed mind-set” for quite a while. We are…

  • Mixed Heritage Week 2015: AIDE Presents: “What Are You?” Exploring Biracial and Multiracial Identity (DICE) The Ohio State University Student Life Multicultural Center, Alonso Family Room 3034 Ohio Union, 1739 N. High Street Columbus, Ohio Thursday, 2015-03-26, 20:00-21:00 EDT (Local Time) This presentation will provide an overview of the changing racial demographics in the United…

  • Imagining a future where racial reassignment surgery is the norm Quartz 2014-09-27 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Communications Professor University of Southern California, Annenberg Jess Row’s haunting new novel, Your Face In Mine, is an invitation to the future, an era bound only by the limits of imagination, money, and technology. It’s a time when you can…

  • BLACK AND WHITE vs BLACK OR WHITE: Bioethics and Mixed Race Families September Williams’ Bioethics Screen Reflections: Film, Television, and Media Critiques Relevant to Bioethics 2015-03-01 September Williams, MD Black and White, screened at the 2014 Toronto Film Festival and later at the Mill Valley Film Festival, in October 2014. The same title was also…

  • Zélie Asava of Irish-Kenyan parentage with English citizenship, is a lecturer in film and media theory and national cinemas at Dundalk IT and University College Dublin. She explores mixed-raced identities and its representation in Irish, U.S. and French cinemas.

  • Fresh Off the Boat Is Not Science Fiction David Shih 2015-02-10 David Shih, Associate Professor of English University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire I have always known that moment of disappearance and the even uglier truth is that I have long treasured it. That always honorable-seeming absence. It appears I can go anywhere I wish. Is…

  • Mixed Race 3.0: Risk and Reward in the Digital Age USC Annenberg Press 2015-01-30 113 pages ISBN: 9781625175564 Edited by: Ulli K. Ryder Department of Gender and Women’s Studies University of Rhode Island Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Clinical Assistant Professor Annenberg School for Communication and Jounalism University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California Have you been…